[CLD] Top page short lists

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I kinda dislike the display of the first items in each category as it
>> is now.
>>
>> Of course I will be always displayed quite prominently right after
>> Paolo :) with the current alphabetical setup, but I would like to
>> suggest either to randomize the set of entries displayed or to skip
>> them entirely.
>
> Can't we use the Linkit system to order them by votes or something.
> Especially given Zipf's law, the 80/20 rule, and/or the long tail,
> the directory will probably be more useful if it positions the 20% of
> resources that 80% of the folks are actually looking for more
> prominently than the 80% of resources that only 20% are looking for.
>
> If we don't want to make it a raw popularity contest, then make
> certain folks the CLD Editors and let them rank the items within each
> category.

I am not so fond of this 80/20 rule either.  E.g. it would sink CL in a 
list of "popular" languages.

Let's go back to Athenian democracy and randomize :)

Cheers
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