# On Our New Correction Engine...Beta-Testers Requested!

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191>\
**Category:** Conversation\
**Tags:** Science\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191 "2021-08-31T16:42:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/1 "2021-08-31T16:42:34Z")

</div>

One of Peaceful Science’s values is transparency. Thanks to the hard work of several people (@Jordan, @cwhenderson, and @sfmatheson ), we established an error correction policy early this year:

> **[Error Correction Policy](https://peacefulscience.org/articles/correction-policy/)**
>
> We adopted an error correction policy that commits us to correcting errors comprehensively, transparently, and publicly.

This policy commits us to transparently correcting our mistakes on the blog. In the discussion about this ([Request for Comment: Publication Ethics for Peaceful Science](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/request-for-comment-publication-ethics-for-peaceful-science/12215)), one possibility came up:

> [@Request for Comment: Publication Ethics for Peaceful Science](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/request-for-comment-publication-ethics-for-peaceful-science/12215/5):
>
> **Once the first version of this policy is finalized, I suggest maintaining it on github** (see: [Open collaborative writing with Manubot](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007128) and [Making Your Code Citable · GitHub Guides](https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/)). With this approach, updates to the policy can be publicly logged, issues with the policy can be reported by anyone, and adoption of changes debated and finalized transparently. By including it in github, we can also obtain DOI’s for each version of the policy.

We’ve also discussed elsewhere how to track revisions and solicit corrections from readers.

I’m pleased to report we now have a GitHub-powered solution for all articles on our website. At the bottom of each article, you will see two new buttons: “Suggest Changes” and “Revision History.”

 ![Screen Shot 2021-08-31 at 11.34.47 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/peacefulscience/original/2X/c/c08ab3bb50f664ad17f90f6c429ec6bbcd4f052d.jpeg)

Clicking the “Suggest Changes” will take you to a website where you can edit a branched article and request that it be pulled back into the published website. This does not require much technical know how, just a web-browser and a free GitHub account.

Clicking “Revision History” will take you to GitHub too, where you can see the complete revision history of the document. For an example of this, look at the revisions to [A Pentecostal at The Smithsonian](https://peacefulscience.org/articles/pentecostal-smithsonian/).

Would you help us test these features? Poke around the website, suggest some corrections, and let us know how difficult it was for you. If you just want to submit “test” corrections that aren’t really meant to be taken just add “TEST” to the branch you create. We will close those branches without merging them.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/2 "2021-08-31T16:54:47Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dan\_Eastwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/dan_eastwood/32/2368_2.png) [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/3 "2021-08-31T16:59:41Z")

</div>

I’m getting 404 errors with the Suggest and Revisions links.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/4 "2021-08-31T17:00:37Z")

</div>

Which ones?

E.g. this should work, right?

```
https://github.com/PeacefulScience/hugo-website/edit/master/content/articles/pentecostal-smithsonian.md
```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/5 "2021-08-31T17:06:40Z")

</div>

I see. The repo was not public yet. It is now.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dan\_Eastwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/dan_eastwood/32/2368_2.png) [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/6 "2021-08-31T19:32:34Z")

</div>

Yes, that did it. 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/peacefulscience/original/2X/6/6b7bf72453a5c60b0919b6b89a27dc18bc52382c.png) [@system](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/on-our-new-correction-engine-beta-testers-requested/14191/7 "2021-09-07T19:33:24Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.