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Hi Nathan,
The jellybeans example is also a good one.
PageRank uses links as votes from other pages (weighed by their page's
own PageRank).
Yes, we will definitely add more documentation for the editing
process.
Thanks,
-Dom
> The genius of PageRank is not in the links, it's in the filtering
> algorithm.
>
> A famous early example of wisdom of the crowds was done on a "guess
the
> number of jellybeans" contest. The average guess was much better
than
> any of the individual guesses. The simplicity of this masks the fact
> that "average" is an algorithm that encodes the rule "people will
err on
> the high side as much as they will err on the low side". The
algorithm
> only works as well as the rule applies.
>
> Maybe a twiki will work well for meta data, it's hard to tell. If
you
> want to piggyback on the success of wikipedia though, you might take
> additional pages from their book and write some content guidelines:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ
>
> Particularly:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article
>
> parts of
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorisation_FAQ
>
> and some form of equivalent to:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
>
> ----------->Nathan
>
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> Nathan Young
> CDC Site Dev->Interface Development Team
> A: ncy1717
> E: natyoung@cisco.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ROR [mailto:dev@rorweb.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:20 PM
> > To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> > Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki
> > - meaningfuel.org
> >
> > Hi Len,
> >
> > There are some very successful technologies out there that are
> > essentially powered by the people. PageRank is a great
> > example of that.
> >
> > -Dom
> >
> >
> > > Which makes it suitable for picking the contestants on
> > > American Idol but probably not for picking tools to
> > > use in surgery.
> > >
> > > The problem of the 'wisdom of crowds' is knowing
> > > 'crowds of what?' in advance of applying the wisdom.
> > >
> > > It's not simply a matter of merging but also of
> > > knowing what levels of abstract to concrete terms
> > > a merged term belongs to.
> > >
> > > object -> vehicle -> car
> > >
> > > merge: transportation
> > >
> > > The problem of Darwinian systems is that some
> > > competitors agree not to compete and also to
> > > eliminate the third party, aka, market fixing.
> > > That is the chimp way. You are building a
> > > chimp ontology.
> > >
> > > That's fine. Chimps need them.
> > >
> > > len
> > >
> > >
> > > From: ROR [mailto:dev@rorweb.com]
> > >
> > > Hi Jonathan,
> > >
> > > Good questions! I think the best way to look at the
> > meaningfuel wiki
> > > is as some sort of "natural selection metadata". Some terms will
> > > vanish after two weeks, other more adequate terms, will live
> > forever.
> > > Similar terms (i.e. from different ontologies) will compete, and
> > here
> > > too, only the most adequate ones will survive.
> > >
> > > >From time to time we plan to produce a release of the
dictionary,
> > > which will only contain those terms that have reached
sufficient
> > > stability and maturity.
> > >
> > >
> >
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