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Wed, 2003-11-26 06:07 — Neil

Yes, we are all still here. It's quiet because Nodal's main contributors are all very busy just now: 2 are nearing the end of the PhD road and you all know how that is.
In the news, our very own Sydney supercomputer is launched, 108th in the top 500. We should all be getting accounts on this thing soon, so stay tuned for reports of how it performs (administratively as well as computationally).
If any of you feel like sifting through 150+ bioinformatics abstracts, feel free, otherwise I might just delete the lot. It's a broken system, but we don't have time to fix it.


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Wed, 2003-12-03 08:47 — Greg

Broken system

Since I don't have time at the moment to fix the pubmed aggregator I turned it off. If anyone is interested in working on this you can contact me via email.


Fri, 2003-11-28 03:53 — PedroBeltrao

Yeap ..a bit quiet

150 papers looks like a frightening task. I still think that they should have a time limit and then drop out. The rest is still lack of people voting. On my part I guess that when the queue started growing so much I just gave up :D. Maybe narrowing down the scope a bit could work as well


Mon, 2003-12-01 18:21 — Neil

other ideas

Time limit could be a good option. My other idea is that rather than being moderated, abstract titles just get displayed on their own page. They could be displayed by rank with their vote score (though not much ranking would happen with scores of 1, 0, -1 or "no vote"...)
Anyway, I've done my voting and deleted duplicates and irrelevances.


Wed, 2003-11-26 12:04 — scotfree@drupal.org

Well...

...seeing as how I'm between bioinformatics jobs, I have a little time on my hands and the desire to 'keep my hand in', as it were. Maybe it's possible to split it up a bit, I bet I could get some old coworkers to read a few as well...

I haven't followed the drama closely, what exactly is the trouble? Duplicate entries? Feel free to email me if you like. But I wouldn't mind reading through at least some.


Wed, 2003-11-26 13:04 — Neil

The trouble

As I see it, there are 3 problems. First, we get duplicate entries. Second, the search criteria are too wide. Third, not enough people vote so the entries just sit there.
You might like to email Greg if you fancy playing with the code. I think we should give up on moderation and just have more selective queries which are sent to a page for viewing.