Wall for Ron Maimon

You need to sit down with a random collection of the papers, and collect them into categories! There is no easy way of doing it, you need to make a category whenever you see a bunch of related papers, and a sub-category when you see a bunch of even more closely related papers. The lowest category level is something like a little clique of authors (usually a PhD advisor and all the students) which cite each other relentlessly and study a specialized thing intensely, for example, "BFKL pomeron".

I wouldn't mind helping, but I still don't get exactly how the sub-sub-categories will be made based on.

Will it be something like under hep-ph, you have string-pheno, etc., under gr-qc, string-cosmo, lqc, etc., under hep-th, string-th, etc., ?

Just go here: http://www.physicsoverflow.org/trollsouthere14/admin/categories?edit=5  

Then under "sub-categories", choose the classification you want to add a sub-category to. For example, if you choose "hep-ph", then click on it and you'll end up here:
http://www.physicsoverflow.org/trollsouthere14/admin/categories?edit=25

Then, under "Sub-categories", click "add sub-category", and you will end up here:
http://www.physicsoverflow.org/trollsouthere14/admin/categories?addsub=25  
Now it is self-evident.

works now, but if it's not self-evident, you might want to give me a few tips about how to go about it (I haven't tried doing it yet).

Can you access it now?

Oops, spoken too soon. When I went to the link you provided, I got this message: Only administrators may access this page.

Set it up so I can do the tags, and I'll categorize the stuff I recognize into categories. I'll pick 5000 physics papers at random, and categorize them, that doesn't take as long as it sounds. Maybe if you and Dilaton and a few other physicists join in, we can do it by hand for all of arxiv before going live, but perhaps that's a ridiculous amount of work, I need to do it first to know.

I don't know why it still happens--- the bug for sure isn't fixed, it happened yesterday again. Thanks for making me admin, I'll do it later this week, or on the weekend, depending on time constraints (I'm a nanny this week!) But I think it is important to remove me from adminship once I do the categorization, so I don't have special power over anything. I don't think that I am trustworthy!

By the way, I wonder why your profile still keeps getting "updated" to your PSE profile despite the fact that the bug has already been fixed according to polarkernel...

I tested whether subsubcategories can already be made in Q2A, and I found out that they already can!

I have made you a moderator for the reviews section so that you could be able to recategorise the papers according to the hirearchial category system (though I still don't know how practical that is), but I don't know if that allows you to add subsubcategories. To check if you can, try accessing this page:

http://www.physicsoverflow.org/trollsouthere14/admin/categories?edit=25

I thought you weren't being sincere for a bit there. But yeah, Dilaton, Dimension10 and especially  **polarkernel** make a great team. The site appears to be working well as it is, and I'm confident things will continue to improve over the coming months.