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| + | A couple of thoughts about my work on CommonAnswers in the past fortnight: | ||
| + | * One of the trickiest things was trying to balance a mechanical collection of links with a humanised style. The former is much faster, more comprehensive, but also mindless and not very different from what's already out there. The latter is quirkier, may never achieve 100% completion (and I'm still not entirely clear what 100% really means), and takes time as I first try to understand the topic and then see what's actually useful and interesting about each site I link to. It seems to me that finding, and explicitly defining, a balance between these two that all the Content Team can work within in their own individual ways, is key if we want to make CommonAnswers more than a substitute for Google Directory on one hand, and Wikipedia on the other. | ||
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| + | * I wonder if it might be a good idea if Content team members were to organise by subject area instead of randomly picking search terms from a list. This might speed things up a little as each of us would become an expert on a topic, (say) 'pottery', create a list of search terms and pages ('Jomon', 'stoneware', 'slip', 'auction' etc), and probably work faster overall. Perhaps with a kind of pairing where one Content person can cast a fresh eye on another's list of search terms. | ||
| + | - [[User:FatimaRaja|FatimaRaja]] 20:46, 17 September 2007 (PDT) | ||
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Revision as of 03:46, 18 September 2007
Our Work / Content / Tasks / Refine Common Answers Strategy (Sept. 16-30) (RayKing, ChrisBabson, TakKendrick)
Description
Review the results of the past two work periods. Decide what types of search terms to pursue in the future. Determine a balance between cost to write an article and value added. Review tracing function on Google.
Why?
Now that we know what a Common Answer entails on AboutUs, we need to develop an overall strategy for terms to build out
The two options we've explored in the past month:
- 1) Top Search Terms (on the web and AboutUs - 'the fat front')
- 2) Categories containing 10-100 articles ('the long tail')
Done When
We have a refined strategy in place for creating and continually updating a Common Answers Queue.
Useful Links
- Common Answers
- Common Answers Queue
- Perfect 30 articles for CommonAnswers (Sept. 1-15)
- Create 25 long tail category articles for Common Answers (Sept 1-15)
Resource Estimate
- Pair Days: 2
Task Evaluation
- Evaluator: RayKing, ChrisBabson, TakKendrick
- How the task went:
- Sign off Person:
- Sign off Date:
Discussion
A couple of thoughts about my work on CommonAnswers in the past fortnight:
- One of the trickiest things was trying to balance a mechanical collection of links with a humanised style. The former is much faster, more comprehensive, but also mindless and not very different from what's already out there. The latter is quirkier, may never achieve 100% completion (and I'm still not entirely clear what 100% really means), and takes time as I first try to understand the topic and then see what's actually useful and interesting about each site I link to. It seems to me that finding, and explicitly defining, a balance between these two that all the Content Team can work within in their own individual ways, is key if we want to make CommonAnswers more than a substitute for Google Directory on one hand, and Wikipedia on the other.
- I wonder if it might be a good idea if Content team members were to organise by subject area instead of randomly picking search terms from a list. This might speed things up a little as each of us would become an expert on a topic, (say) 'pottery', create a list of search terms and pages ('Jomon', 'stoneware', 'slip', 'auction' etc), and probably work faster overall. Perhaps with a kind of pairing where one Content person can cast a fresh eye on another's list of search terms.
- FatimaRaja 20:46, 17 September 2007 (PDT)
