One of the advantages of doing this on the sasCommunity.org site is that the author will likely be watching the pages/files. So if someone else updates them incorrectly, when they receive the email notification that the file or page was changed they can check out the changes and roll them back if needed. That is a built-in feature of the MediaWiki software that sasCommunity.org (and Wikipedia) are built on top of.

The same applies to any change someone makes to an article or file. The changes can be rolled back or corrected as needed.

Regards, donh

> -----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lex Jansen > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:14 PM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: www.sascommunity.org > > I have been thinking about file upload possibilities for > adding attachments to papers, but would want to allow that > only for authors. > This would go way beyond the simplicity of my current > interface, because there sould be some kind of authentication. > It is an interesting discussion though. > > Lex > > http://www.lexjansen.com > > On Jul 29, 5:05 pm, hs AT dc-sug DOT org ("Howard Schreier)" wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:05 -0400, Sigurd Hermansen > > <HERMA...@WESTAT.COM> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >Lex: > > >... and we appreciate the simplicity of the site and the > power that > > >it gives users. It would help to be able to archive PowerPoint or > > >other documents and link them to a conference paper. > > > > >While I have you on the line, I'd appreciate hearing how to handle > > >corrections of or errata for a SGF paper. During preparation of > > >expanded Evaluating Predictive Modeling papers for SESUG > 2008 (Mining > > >the Past, Seeing the Future section), I noticed an error in the > > >summary version of the concordance c macro program in the > paper. It > > >amounts to but a one-character error, but it produces a > smaller than > > >correct c statistic value when summaries of outcomes and > predictions > > >have larger multiples and larger than correct c statistic > value when > > >summaries have few or small multiples. > > > > >I believe that I have seen corrected versions of papers in > the past, > > >but can't locate one now as an example. Please advise how > to initiate > > >a correction. > > >Thanks, > > >S > > > > Remember that for the most part the conference papers are > not hosted > > at lexjansen.com. Rather they are at sas.com, nesug.org, etc. > > > > Something else to ponder: What if the correction is put forth by > > someone other than the original author(s)? > > > > > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On > Behalf Of > > >Lex Jansen > > >Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:28 PM > > >To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > >Subject: Re:www.sascommunity.org > > > > >My site (www.lexjansen.com) is by design not a SAS community site. > > >The proceedings part is simply a user interface to SAS conference > > >proceedings (partly hosted by me), mashed up with Google search. I > > >like to keep it that simple. A thing that I have been > thinking about > > >adding is that authors could add Powerpoints, codes, ... I > have not > > >found a good way of doing this yet, other then solliciting > for it on > > >SAS-L (which hardly gives any response). > > > > >Lex > > > > >On Jul 29, 10:35 am, mlhow...@avalon.net (Mary) wrote: > > > > >> Perhaps we could persuade Lex to rename his site to be > > >> =www.sascommunity.org, and perhaps to have him add other > articles > > >> that > > > > >> = aren't formal papers, and that would be a very useful > tool. I'm > > >> a = > > > > >> little dubious of Wiki being able to be as useful as that, but I > > >> think > > > > >> = that comes from my frustration at it being very > difficult to even > > >> add my = SAS tutorial to it. > > > > >> -Mary > > > > >> ----- Original Message -----=20 > > >> From: Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>=20 > > >> To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU=20 > > >> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:03 PM > > >> Subject: Re: OT:www.sascommunity.org > > > > >> http://lexjansen.com/ > > > > >> The underlying resource is the collective proceedings > archives of > > >the > > >> various SAS user conferences. What Lex notably adds is an > > >> excellent = front > > >> end for browsing and searching. > > > > >> I consider a search of conference proceedings to be in > nature and > > >> = purpose > > >> somewhat different from a help-desk or knowledge base sort of = > > >> question.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - >