Re: Public export of Perl Monks database

[castaway]

It's an interesting idea..
I'm just wondering how much actual work it would take to make it useful for anyone who's looking for answers to a certain problems.. i.e. someone will have to do quite a bit of sorting and categorising to make it suitable for any sort of publication. Most of the people that keep up Perl Monks (and hooray for them) seem to have enough to do already :)
(There's a whole lot of redudant stuff, posts that say the same, posts that are inacurate, because of misunderstanding the question etc. And who's to judge whats 'good' and 'useful' and whats not?)

Having said that, maybe the exported bundle of actual node data will be useful to someone.. Apart from setting up a mirror, I can't think of a real use at the moment. If anything, it'd be nice to put on a CD to make sure it doesn't get lost.. Though I hope that PM does backups anyway...

C.

[zby]

Perhaps you don't see - but I do. I won't post the ideas here - they are still very vague, and I would like to test them befor that, but I am sure others will find other ideas. The important thing is to open the database so that everyone could test his own ideas. And I believe there are many ways to distill interesting information from it.