Wall for Ron Maimon

I got afraid that you left for the same kind of reason that you left TP.SE!

By the way, don't worry about research-level questions not getting as many upvotes as the relatively lower-level questions. That will not happen, research-level questions get more upvotes, everywhere, on TP.SE, on MO, and even on P.SE before 2012.

I know now! I haven't been following, due to distraction.

Um,, are you still here on Physics Overflow? You have been suddenly inactive since about a week... Do you know that we are going online in about 7 hours?

This time I imported a post of yours, it did not incorrectly update your profile : )

Ok, then one and a half days (when I said a week, I meant 6 days actually). So if 10 people (unlikely) spend 6 hours a day for recategorisation then it will take 6 days, fine. Or 3 weekends.

Unfortunately, I don't think more than 3 or 4 users will actually participate in recategorisation, so even in the best case scenario, half a month, or 7 to 8 weekends, which will take 2 months.  

Ok, that's probably fine. I wouldn't mind helping then, but first we need to wait for the arxiv paper import plugin, which will in itself take about 2 to 3 months.

So we could expect the reviews section to be public by late August!

There are 900,000 papers on arxiv, but more than half aren't physics papers. Once the categories are in place, I think you can attach the right tag in about 30 seconds per paper. At some point, you notice regularities, and you can try to automate the process. I've got a weekend to do stuff, I devote the weekend to physicsoverflow, I'll do some. My bio reverted again too, I thought that was fixed.

I took this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2795

hep-ph/string-pheno/m-pheno/m-pheno-higgs-mass

Looks ok...

I took about one minute to categorise this, and this categorises not just this, but actually 7. This is less than average, which I will say to be 10.

There are about 900000 physics articles on the arxiv, so that will take 90000 human-minutes. If even 10 people volunteer (very unlikely that so many would though, e.g.Lubos Motl was once quite bemused when Dilaton suggested that he retag about 400 questions from TP.SE which were migrated to P.SE), that would be 9000 minutes per human.     

... which translates to 150 hours straight, or an entire week without sleep, food, or water : )

To "devote a weekend" would mean categorising at the rate of about almost one paper in less than 4 seconds.  

Do you think it is practical for 10 people to not eat or sleep or drink water for a week? Definitely not with the current dry climate like that where I live : )

Ok, I get it.

But I don't know if the papers will even be imported by the weekend in the first place, we will most likely be having to put our efforts to bring the Q&A public as soon as possible.

I however, don't know how feasible that actually is. Let me choose a random paper and see how that all works out, like how many levels will there be. It sounds like there will be a lot.

I mean, not unless you want to!

But don't do anything, I'll devote the weekend to doing it.