After reading the other threads, I found the biggest thing we need is some goals.
It sounds like we already covered authenticity by hosting it with Longecity, and it looks like there is plenty of interest in such a project.
After looking over examine.com I found it very useful and close to what I would like to see, I personally would like to see something more digestible and summarized. While I was able to get through the articles, it takes me a long time to work through the terminology and I am overwhelmed with the extra stuff I don't really care about. For example, reading over the Piracetam article, I really don't care about its use to relive breath holding spells. We need to then pin down what our scope is.
In regards to SuperStack, My biggest concern about this project in general is the first 50 pages, so any amount that you are will to contribute would be incredibly helpful! Fortunately I don't think we will need much in the way of programming experience and anything we do need, I will probably be able to hammer out. Otherwise, by preventing the general population from updating the database (assuming a wiki at this point) we would lose too many people who would help our cause. So I like the idea of a post limit and/or moderator approval, I think we can apply that to unapproved edits. If you have passed the post limit, and/or been approved by a mod to be trustworthy enough to submit valuable content, you can post without a review process. Otherwise when someone submits an edit, that edit needs to be approved by A:a mod, B:2 members who are authorized for unapproved edits, C:10 non member people. Just some ideas on how to keep the data valuable.
Major Legend is correct about how often our information changes on substances. While this is a concern, it is one that faces every wiki, ultimately if the community want this bad enough, they will be responsible to keep it up to date, any new information they come across, maybe through a discussion in the forums needs to be added to the database, we need to promote adding it and make it extremely easy to add. For example, right in the forums we could put a "Add to wiki" button that allows them to copy paste info and sources in without leaving the page they are on. Overall it comes down to marketing and convince.
Overall I think we will need to start a pilot program of a standard wiki on a separate page to provide a proof of concept. This will allow us to test functionality, figure out what we need, then we can come to Longcity with a more fleshed out proposal and some content to start with. To ensure I don't run off with any data, I will copy the entire project to a public space so anyone can pick it up in the future.
Some key points that need to be covered are:
- What do we intend this to be used for?
- Who is our target audience?
- People with MD
- People with no medical background
- People trying to build stacks
- What kind of info do we want on such a system?
- What is the scope of the info we want?
- longevity only
- nootropic only
- Both
- Others I didn't think of
- Do we want anecdotal or only research based evidence?
- We would need to very clearly mark anecdotal evidence.
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What do we want different from the existing systems (such as examine.com)
Some secondary points once we have our goals pinned down:
- Is a wiki the best model for our goals?
- How can we make it really easy to update?
- How do we advertise that we need help keeping it up to date?
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How do we prevent biased updates?
Solved:
Authenticity of the source: published on longecity