OEIS in WiKi, is it a good idea?

[N. J. A. Sloane]

Dear Michele,  Let me say a couple of things:
1.  Accuracy is extremely important and I try to keep
the standards in the OEIS very high.  The same as those 
in any reputable mathematical table.

2.  It is hard enough to maintain one copy of the OEIS.


If there were other copies of sequences out on the web, it would
make maintaining it MUCH more difficult,
and no-one would know if what they saw was from
the OEIS or from some less accurate source.

The OEIS seems to work just fine.  The Wiki idea is a bad one!

Neil Sloane

>From seqfan-owner at ext.jussieu.fr  Mon Feb 21 08:29:27 2005
>From: Michele Dondi <blazar at pcteor1.mi.infn.it>
>To: Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
>Cc: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
>Subject: Re: OEIS in WiKi, is it a good idea?
>
>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alonso Del Arte wrote:
>
>>> There could still be a
>> WiKi or something like that to work _parallely_ to the current OEIS
>> system,
>>
>> There already is! Wikipedia. It has plenty of articles that list
>> sequences, obviously copied and pasted from the OEIS but no A number
>> is given. For starters,
>
>First of all let me apologize for being so late. On topic: I've had only 
>marginal experiences with Wikipedia, but indeed positive ones. However I 
>was rather talking of a _parallel_ project, yes, but a somewhat more 
>integrate one.
>
>I mean, from my POV (which others may not share), there "should" be a 
>link/button from each sequence to a Wiki or similar service for 
>user-supplied cmts. And there should be obvious links in the opposite 
>direction as well. Also, such a think could benefit IMHO from a rating 
>system so that really relevant cmts may be eventually brought to the 
>attention of the administrators and then make their way into the official 
>OEIS.
>
>
>Just my 2 Eurocents,
>Michele
>