On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:20 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 24 July 2010 08:04, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The design of this "publish/share" aspect of the Sage notebook is >> nearly an exact clone of Google docs "publish/share", at least circa >> 2007. The one difference is that google docs doesn't have a way to >> browse the list of published documents -- the url's it provides for >> them are stable urls for the users to post elsewhere. > > Stable URLs seem sensible to me. > > In the context of Google, this publish/share is probably OK, as I > doubt poorly published documents would been seen by anyone as a > reflection on Google - no more than poor web sites found with Google > are seen as a poor reflection on Google. > > But with Sage it is quite different. > >> Thus we could also just make the list of published worksheet not >> browsable at all by default, with the one simple change of removing >> the "Browse published worksheets" link from the front page. >> Obviously, before doing that, we would need to find some good >> replacements for the things people do sometimes use that page for, >> which is: >> (1) go into a room full of students, and >> (2) point them at http://server/pub >> (3) have them click on the worksheets for today. >> >> A customized pub per users might work to replace this, e.g., >> >> http://server/pub/stein >> >> would list the worksheets I've selected somehow... >> >> Another solution would be to be able to easily publish bundles of >> several worksheets together. Then you just tell the students to look >> at >> >> http://sever/pub/1234 >> >> for all the workhseets for today. >> >> -- >> William Stein > > Perhaps have 3 sections. > 1) Create a new category "Demonstrations" which has high quality > demonstrations.Include those with Sage, and make them impossible to > edit directly within Sage. Nice would be URL's like > > http://server/demonstations/number_theory > http://server/demonstations/linear_algebra > http://server/demonstations/plotting > > in a similar way to what you suggested above with > > http://server/pub/stein
Demonstrations would be a good idea. Also, we could do a "worksheet of the month" or something like that the same way wikipedia does a photo/article/etc. of the month that's deemed to be of high quality. > 2) Rename Published -> "Globally Shared" > 3) Rename Shared -> "Privately Shared" I like "Published" and "Shared" better. > I don't see anything particularly wrong with "Globally shared" being > publicly viewable without logging in, but as long as the front page > makes it clear these might not be good examples. > > So have the front page look like > > * Sign up for a new Sage Notebook account > > * Browse Sage demonstrations > (no login required) > > * Browse Globally Shared worksheets > (Warnings, these may be bad examples) > > If someone comes along to a Sage server and sees a bunch of tracebacks > and other error messages, it does not exactly inspire interest. And they should ideally be tested too. I think *any* kind of rating system would also help the random, poor quality stuff sink to the bottom. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
