Re: Draft schema for QA sites

Can we take them from the existing patterns in the review / aggregate reviews branch of schema.org? In the end, the rating of an answer or question is conceptually the same a a rating of a product or any other Thing.

On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:07, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aamod,
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> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Aamod Sane <aamod_sane@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Some comments on the Q&A schema mentioned earlier on the list
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webschema/file/7befd20efb66/schema.org/ext/QA.html
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> * Q&A, the complete collection of question and all answers, is not represented in this proposal. 
>    The set could be called simply Q&A or QuestionsAndAnswers.
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> http://sdo-wip1.appspot.com/QAPage was introduced in the latest update of the proposal.
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> * A question should have a field called "clarifications" where the questioner further 
>    explains aspects of the question.
>    Any CreativeWork may have some amendments, clarifications from the author after 
>    they see some response of the audience.
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> I'm not sure if this is easy to model accurately. In many cases, the author will edit the question itself, it's sometimes easier and less confusing to update and correct/expand the original question than having to re-explain everything in a follow up "clarifications" field. Also, I'm not sure the QA applications have such clarifications field. There are sometimes comments available on the question itself (like on StackOverflow) but I don't know of a way to distinguish between a comment on the question and a clarification on the question. Sure, you could infer that any comment by the original author is a clarification, but is that always the case, and is it useful to distinguish.
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> * Social features that are used in Q&A sites should find a place in the schema, 
>    something like InterestedPersons who follow this question/answers session.
>    Since we already represent Authors, and given that Q&A is a useful unit, 
>    there is already an implicit set of people associated with the work.
>    So it does not seem like too much of a stretch to include "followers" or similar.
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> I've never seen the "followers" of a question being available publicly on a site like StackOverflow. In fact I think that most sites don't publish this information (possibly for privacy concerns). Drupal.org for example allows people to follow tickets and support questions, but only the numbers of followers is displayed. Twitter display the list of people following each other though, but for that there is http://schema.org/follows.
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> * There are separate Upvote and Downvote, what about VoteCount (Upvote-Downvote)?
>    Are such derived fields ok in a schema?
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> Well, that's something that can easily be computed by the consumer based on the upvote and downvote values. That said I'm not feeling strongly so either way is fine by me.
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> I was on the fence about this, but after working on an example for the Q&A proposal inspired from [1], I'm realizing that StackOverflow does not show the number of upvotes and downvotes, but only the delta, which we don't have in the proposal. Downvote and Upvote are both mentionned in the StackOverflow API [2] but these are operations to vote which are irrelevant for schema.org.
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> Reddit has an interesting take on upvotes and downvotes, and scores (upvotes minus downvotes), where the upvotes and downvotes are fuzzy (can be inaccurate) but the score is correct, see [3]. Reddit shows the score, the number of upvotes and the number of downvotes, see an example on the right sidebar at [4]. 
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> I agree with Aamod: I think we need to add a new property to Question (and possibly to Answer) called "voteCount" or "score".
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> Steph.
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> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4370960/what-is-attr-accessor-in-ruby
> [2] https://api.stackexchange.com/docs
> [3] http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_a_submission.27s_score_determined.3F
> [4] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1xpkvl/what_is_something_that_doesnt_make_sense_to_you/

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