On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:21 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> On 15 July 2010 22:15, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One very simple change might be easier to implement/use.  How about if
>>> there were both a "share" button and a "publish" button, and these
>>> went in to separate sections?  I'm guessing that people asking for
>>> help with an error message, etc., would be perfectly happy to choose
>>> "share" rather than "publish".

>> Of course, now that I actually look at the notebook, I see that such
>> buttons already exist.  Sorry for the noise.

>> Carl

> They are different though. If you "share" a document you "share" it
> with a number of people, but not the whole world. If you "publish" it,
> anyone with access to the server can see it. The problem I find is
> that many "published" documents are just rubbish. It does not give a
> good impression to see a ton of bad examples of Sage usage published.

> I think it would be better i there were some read-only "demonstrations
> of good Sage usage", like there for Mathematica.

> http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

> I don't see any poor examples of Mathematica usage on the Wolfram
> Demonstrations pages, but we allow any old junk to be published.
> Perhaps the notebook should have on the front page, something like:

> * Demonstrations (examples of good Sage usage)
> * Publicly viewable documents (quality varies considerably).

> Put 100 demonstrations in the Sage distribution, and make them read-only.

> One tends to equate "published" with good quality, but in practice the
> published documents can be true junk. This looks like an attempt to
> spam, though it was not very effective.

> http://t2nb.math.washington.edu:8000/home/pub/20/