Re: Kalusa feature requests

On 5/23/06, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

> > If the rating is same, I'd rank sentences with more
> > votes higher, so that 100% with 2 votes rank higher
> > than 100% with 1 vote.
> Good suggestion. Maybe something like a point system
> instead of a percentage ranking. Every sentence might
> start out with 1000 points and have its rating go up
> or down according to numnber of votes and score of
> each vote. I'll have to work out the mathematics of
> this. Any suggestiong are more than welcome.
Also -- as the ranking system evolves, we'll probably want
to routinely rank the sentences added since the last
time we visited.  It would be nice to have a form to
rank several sentences at once rather than doing them one
at a time.

Currently, I reckon most sentences go unchallenged
and get just one 100% vote; only when someone disagrees
with the form of some sentence and gives it a low ranking
do other people jump in and rank it.

Maybe 95% ranking with 19/20 votes should be
rated higher than 100% with 1/1 vote?


> Another feature I thought of last night was "The
> Weekly Challenge Sentence."  Take some reasonably
> challenging sentence, like something from the Babel
> text, or Shakespeare, or whatever, and set up a page
> where people can contribute their own translation
> and/or vote on the competing translations. Then at the
...

Cool.  We could start doing that now, but there's
not yet a way to ensure the corpus is listed in an order
that puts the sentences of a given translated text
in order with no other sentences interpolated.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry

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