[ZDP] How to add content to the ZDP

Maik Roeder mroe@axion-gmbh.de
Wed, 10 May 2000 20:24:11 +0100


Hi Tom !

>>> Ok. So, ZDP will allow to add questions and drafts by visitors. Where can
>>> they add these question and drafts as visitor? In which folder, ...? As
>>> soon as I have this information, I'll write a guideline on this.
>>
>>In the Topics.
>
>Mmm, so now the portal will contain content (eg a question, draft)? I
>thought we weren't going to do this (cfr adding Itamars draft inside the
>portal)? 

Well, this is part of the plan ;-) The idea is to make the portals 
only carry short term information that needs to move one day to
another place or be removed completely. In the long term we don't need
the comments and drafts. We need them only as a starting point to
provide quality information ! This quality information is going to
be kept in your member folder.

>>> (a look at www.experts-exchange.com would give great information for
>>> implementation into Zope
>>
>>They are only providing Portals, Subjects and Topics, but information
>>is stored nowhere, so the same discussions will come up on and on.
>>At the ZDP site, members collect only the finest content, and integrate
>>it in quality information. This allows for constant peer review.
>
>Nope, all discussions are stored in a database, which then can be searched
>for information. Which returns the whole thread.

You see, this is not the same ! On ZDP we have somebody selecting
the good stuff and throwing away the rest once it has been integrated
in a document that now contains the accumulated knowledge of
a whole community ! www.experts-exchange is just like a mailing list
with search capability that happens to allow people to organize
their mails in subjects and topics and subtopics.

>>>, yes, I know, sorry that I again refer to this
>>> link. But it is the ideal site and tool to do such things. 
>>
>>No. I think expert-exchange has too much short-term information.
>
>See above. All Information is stored, comments, questions, answers...

This is a problem, because nothing is thrown away. People don't come
to the ZDP site to chat, but to get pointers to the greatest 
available information.

Greetings,

Maik Röder