Post by Ortheore on Dec 25, 2020 11:20:47 GMT
Hi all,
So I just decided to update the analysis for Venusaur, since I'd already written one for smogon. Anyway, I just wanted to post my thoughts on the process. There are two issues as I see it.
1) Working directly with html and github is not the most user friendly
Working with Github and html really isn't ideal, and I say this as someone who has a bit of experience coding, and is therefore at least familiar with the tools in question, especially since github isn't intended for full articles and is obviously more for code. For someone who isn't familiar with those tools, I imagine the situation is far worse. The ideal thing would be to automate the conversion of written analyses to html- I imagine you could very easily set up a form to automatically do this if you input the different sections of an analysis into different fields on the form
2) When analyses are published, they should probably go through some sort of QC process
Regarding the latter point, I first want to make a distinction between published works in the vein of the smogdex and rby2k20 and analysis threads similar to what we had on PP. In the latter case, I think the fact that the analyses were created as open discussions kinda mitigated the fact that pretty much anyone could post an analysis of pretty much any standard. That's not the case here. Here we're creating resources that are going to appear authoritative, which means we should probably have a system to get things to a suitable standard.
We currently don't have a process in place for this, but what I just did wasn't ideal- I basically committed my analysis straight to Github. It's a tricky one though, as we don't currently have the resources to manage any sort of QC. I guess this is something that's more for the future
3) It may be worth adjusting analysis format to be more dot point oriented
I just think what I posted isn't the most readable
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Would it be worth sticking to analyses that are based on forum threads, rather than being published works? Just until the site can pick up momentum ofc. I think as long as we set a good goal (i.e. with an actual realistic deadline) that might be an acceptable compromise.