User talk:Otcdxn

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Speedy deletion of RefNavigator
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January 2009
Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself. Please use the template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Toddst1 (talk) 19:28, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of RefNavigator
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article RefNavigator, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * WP:NN software package. No G-hits.

comes up with nothing.

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AfD nomination of RefNavigator
An article that you have been involved in editing, RefNavigator, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/RefNavigator. Thank you. David Eppstein (talk) 15:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

ArXiv access patterns
I'm curious, since your software claims to provide improved navigation to arXiv: what does it do to avoid the problem described in http://arxiv.org/RobotsBeware.html of making "continued rapid-fire requests"? I assume you wouldn't want your users to have their arxiv access blocked. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, let me explain it. RefNavigator is just a desktop software client. It's not a search engine, thus it does not send any spiders to Arxiv(that's what robot.txt rejects). Instead, it only access Arxiv and parse result web pages when users run a search task. The advantage is, the search result is parsed into well-formed reference format so it can be cited directly. And after the search task is created, users can run it any time with just a click to track latest research progresses -- the new references will be marked as red automatically.

We definitely don't want to bring unlimited traffic to Arxiv. So we don't send any spiders, and we limit the default search result count to 20. Only the search-related pages are requested and parsed.

Actually thanks for raising this question. On your URL, I’m glad to find that Arxiv already provide an beta-version API for applications (http://export.arxiv.org/api_help/). I believe we can do it better by using the API instead of parsing web pages.

--Otcdxn (talk) 14:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)