This is the central and most important algorithm of the website.

The website will look a lot like a hosted blog like https://wordpress.org or https://medium.com/, but with the following additions:

• users can upvote or downvote articles

• any user can create any tag or upvote and downvote tags on any article, even if the user is not the author. Upvoting a tag on an article means that "I think that this tag describes this article well"

  A tag could be something like: `C` to indicate that "this article is about the C language".

From these inputs, we want to answer, using algorithms, the following questions:

• what is the best content for a given tag. This allows learners to find more interesting content.

• which user knows the most about a given tag, or in other words, has the most reputation for a given tag. This motivates users to contribute to become famous and get better jobs.

This is the central algorithmic innovation that we want to implement.

If an user has high reputation for a tag, say C++, then:

• if the user upvotes a post tagged with C++, the upvote has more weight than if the user upvotes a post tagged with Java. By "has more weight" we mean:

  • the post gets a better ranking in the tag

  • the author of the post gets more reputation in the tag

• if the user upvotes or downvotes a C++ tag on any post, that tag vote has more weight than if the user upvotes or downvotes a Java tag for a post

Just like for PageRank, this leads to circular chains of influence, e.g.:

• user A upvotes a post for user B

• user B upvotes a post for user C

• user C upvotes a post for user A

And then a way to solve this problem is to model it to an Eigenvalue problem.

2.1.1. PageRank with tags sketch

On Stack Overflow for example:

• the post with most upvotes goes gets the highest ranking, no matter how old it is or when the votes were made.

  This means that very old posts, which gained a lot of upvotes, almost never leave the top, even if newer better posts come along.

• if two users with the same reputation

We must include in our post score and user reputation a time factor, so that recent votes count more than old votes.

It would be even more awesome to have a parameter that controls how much time matters, and then this would allow us to cover a wide variety of post types:

• what we call "news" are simply posts where time matters a lot

• what we call "theoretical reference books" are just posts where time matters less

The Reddit ranking algorithm does this reasonably well: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algorithms-work-ef111e33d0d9

Even better, would be to consider how many times users view EACH post in a single page, with some JS black magic. With that, we can just use the Wilso score interval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_interval#Wilson_score_interval as mentioned at: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

SO threads:

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125455/sorting-new-answers-to-old-questions?rq=1

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late?rq=1

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15805/how-can-we-make-good-answers-to-old-questions-float-to-the-top

• http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/272570/how-to-deal-with-hugely-upvoted-bad-and-outdated-answers

Non SO literature:

• https://www.quora.com/When-Google-indexes-a-page-does-it-consider-that-pages-creation-date-when-it-comes-to-PR-computation

How to mark tags java and Java as being duplicates without moderators?

Possible solution: everyone can mark tags as duplicate.

Why people would waste time doing that? Because once you mark tags as duplicate, if you search for one, you will see both, so you can waste less time searching.

Then we need some algorithms that fuzzily joins all subjects that many people said are the same.

This is one of Quora’s focus: https://data.quora.com/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs

The website will have GitHub-like pull requests to content.

No one can ever edit your posts unless you explicitly allow them.

This prevents edit wars which can only be resolved with moderation.

But you can make your own copy (fork) according to the required website content license (CC-BY-SA), and a make precise a suggestion, which can be merged with a single click (aka GitHub pull requests).

But then What happens if:

• the writer of an answer dies, and someone makes a great pull request to his answer with 1M upvotes?

• 50% of users agree with a pull request, 50% don’t?

Possible solution:

• next to each answer, have a list of forks

• everyone can mark an answer as the "best version" or just upvote the pull requests

It must be possible for users to create trees of posts.

When a teacher wants to create a course for example, he can just link to existing material to the course material tree.

And only if something is missing, then he may write it.

Pull requests can be made for additions to the post tree, just as for regular content.

The best way to do such tree, would be something along:

• WYSIWYG text editor

• user can mark some text as a heading

• whenever a heading a heading is created:

  • the user specifies the heading level

  • a database entry is created, that contains the text of the child, child entries and metadata: upvotes and tags

To do this we will need to find a highly extensible JavaScript WYSIWYG text editor.

https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg

3.1.1. Quill

3.1.2. TinyMCE

It would be awesome if all tags mapped to posts.

This way, a posts would serve as the description of a tag.

For example, the tag mathematics should map to a set of posts mathematics, which explains what Mathematics is, and contains a tree of children nodes which are sub-subjects, e.g. algebra, calculus, etc.

Furthermore, when an user puts the algebra post as a child of mathematics, this is equivalent to saying "tag my Algebra article with the mathematics tag".

Comments and pull requests are analogous, and stored separately from regular nodes as mathematics.

Comments and pull requests are more like "meta posts, with optional titles".

Comments are like GitHub issues, which are very similar to pull requests.

Comments are tied specifically to a given post.

E.g., if user 1 and user 2 make their own page entitled Mathematics and Algebra, the Algebra page of both users could often be a child of the Mathematics page of either user.

Comments on the other hand, are tied to a single Mathematics page of a single user.

Forks however should inherit all comments and pull requests.

It would be awesome if the website could export and re-import an entire tree as, say, Asciidoctor for the following reasons:

• at the start, the website will be fragile, so users might not trust it fully, and will feel better if they can easily switch to another platform

• this would allow local editing of text files, which makes many tasks easy, like mass refactoring

The main question then is what to do about header IDs and links.

After the following features are implemented however:

• data- attribute passthroughs asciidoctor/asciidoctor#1305

• / on IDs: asciidoctor/asciidoctor#1540

we can just go for:

where:

• cirosantilli/header-visible-id is the human readable version tha shows on the URL

• data-id=12345678 is an unique database ID and associates upvote metadata to the header

• further data- attributes like data-tags represent further data added by the user

Then for imports:

• validate that the human readable ID cirosantilli/ part matches the uploader’s username, and that it is unique

• if a header does not have a data-id, it means that the user is creating a new header

• users can never delete their content. This way, links will never break.

• the amount of data (characters in posts, number of tags, etc.) each user can create may be capped to limit server usage. Make this limit proportional to user reputation

This would counter voting fraud, e.g. of close groups of friends which upvote each other a lot.

Malicious users, or innocent users from close-knit research communities, might end up voting each other a lot.

We would like to have an algorithm such that every time you upvote the same given person, it has less positive impact on his reputation for that tag than the previous upvote.

How to determine if something is "original research" or not?

E.g.: a genius discovers something and publishes it really badly explained.

Someone less intelligent comes, explains it better, and gets widely read.

Or someone who just posts a bunch of links to good sources.

It would be cool for a user to say: I trust this other user on given tags / all tags.

Maybe this is required. E.g., given a real network, a bot network could make an exact copy of it, and that should have the same reputation as the real one.

Such relations make per-user score of other users / posts even more important.

Rate how much one user likes other users based on his actions.

E.g.: someone who only upvotes C questions will give score 0 for someone with only Java questions.

We could be able to deduce that animal includes dog, is a lot of articles tagged as

• Tibeli 2013 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0084133

https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/213126066-Datasets-database-

Likely largest database of DOI metadata. They also issue DOIs.

Data comes from multiple journals, and each one has a different metadata set. Some don’t even have cross references, most have authors by name only instead of ORCID.

You have to belong to a journal to be listed there at all.

They host the metadata only.

Smaller than Crossref since only for bio related stuff, but despite that does not even seem to be much more uniform anyways…​

Download data from: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/pubmed_medline.html

TODO how are references encoded? Example.

Most authors don’t have ORCID, just string name. ORCIDs are in an optional field.

Most journals don’t have keywords, but at least those that do have keywords nicely split in the XML.

On the other hand, has a bunch of more bio specific fields such as which chemicals the paper mentions…​ lol, they can’t standardize the most important data, but they can add stuff like this.

pubmed data represents the central topic of an article through the MajorTopicYN field which is interesting.

• education has huge inertia:

  • university teachers are only ranked for their innovative research, and most don’t care or are not truly good explainers / educational content generators.

  • pre university: only cares about making students pass the useless university entry exams, instead of doing something truly valuable for society

• Stack Overflow is good enough (?), even though it could be so much better

• Google PageRank worked because they could crawl the entire web and get a large dataset without everyone having to go to them in the first place.

  PageRank does not work for us however, as we need to know who is the author of each post. What to do about pages where the posts of multiple people show at the same time?

  If only there was a standardized metadata on HTML that said who is the author of each post.

  But even then, how to standardize the tagging? Who would store that data?

• most of the information that is actually useful in the world if not open, but rather closed behind patents and industrial secrets.

  And you wouldn’t be able to use or advance that information without the expensive associated machinery.

  Working on recreating this information in an open way, and putting it on GitHub, may be more useful than this project.

• in small fields of highly advanced research, the entry barrier is already huge, and only full time researchers can make any meaningful contribution, and we already know who the best are at all times.

  The entry barrier of a journal is tiny compared to working full time on a given subject.

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98141/ranking-users-similar-to-page-rank

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64938/doesnt-science-have-a-better-reputation-system-than-stack-overflow

• http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/103735/modified-h-index-for-questions-and-answers

Software:

• http://www.bibsonomy.org/

  • https://bitbucket.org/bibsonomy/bibsonomy

  • http://www2007.org/workshops/paper_25.pdf

• https://github.com/networkx/networkx Python, does a lot of other graph things

StackApps:

• http://stackapps.com/questions/6520/skillrep-experiment-in-computing-a-skill-focused-reputation

• http://stackapps.com/questions/6298/stackrating-tracks-skill-of-stack-overflow-users

General reputation systems:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_system

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory#Link_analysis

Concept maps:

• http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/

Social network:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsū_(social_network)

  • http://www.tsu.co/

  • shares 90% ad revenue with content creators

• http://www.synereo.com/whitepapers/synereo.pdf#subsection.2.2.2 distributed social network, seems to use quality metrics to determine how much content will be hosted from each person?

  • paper http://www.synereo.com/whitepapers/synereo.pdf#subsection.2.2.2

  • TODO open source? https://github.com/synereo Where is the source?

  • Where does their money come from? When will it launch?

• SocialSwarm

• Diaspora

• https://github.com/debiki/ed-server no tags? Best go up focus.

8.1.1. PageRank

• Flickr 2016 only photo author can add tags

• Delicious TODO down?

Traditional websites with good content model:

• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html

No publishing innovation there, but inspirational presentation structure and scope.

8.3.1. Get free DOIs

• Lawrence Angrave

  • Student-Owned Learning

  • https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming/wiki

  • https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/ClassTranscribe+-+Transforming+Lecture+Videos+into+Student-Driven,+Student-Owned+Learning/1_1pz1lh6y/28391611