Simon Kissane wrote:
Now, I was wondering about the potential relationship
between Wikipedia and Planetmath. Maybe we could
establish some way of encouraging content from
Planetmath to be added to Wikipedia, or vice versa?
Unfortunately, our wiki software doesn't give us any "firm" way to
credit them properly with the author history. We could put that stuff
directly *in* the article, but to some extent that's problematic
because later editors might delete something that we legally need to
be there.
I don't think this is an insurmountable objection, but something we
should consider before wholesale copying starts.
I also thought for a moment about some form of merger
between the two projects, or removing all the maths
content from Wikipedia and sending it to PlanetMath,
or something similar. I don't think these are good
ideas, since the two projects seem to be quite
different in culture (author-centric vs. anyone can
edit).
Yes, and one of the great things about open projects is that because
we can ultimately share our content, non-proprietary competition
benefits us all. (Just as Linux and FreeBSD often benefit from
aspects of each others codebase.)
On the other hand, maybe some form of integration
between PlanetMath and Nupedia might be a good idea?
Maybe PlanetMath could be rolled into Nupedia, or
PlanetMath could become the maths section of Nupedia?
Certainly, Nupedia could quickly borrow all the Planet Math content!
Nupedia, unlike wikipedia, can easily accomodate author-centricity.
There shouldn't be any major impediment to that, other than the
Nupedia culture of incredibly slow thorough academicness. (Which I
praise and damn simultaneously, mind you! :-))
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