OEIS in WiKi, is it a good idea?

[Henry Gould]

Alonso Del Arte wrote:

>I don't like that idea either, and I say that as someone who has found
>Wikipedia very useful.
>
>When someone edits a Wikipedia article to add a reference to Sloane's
>OEIS, no one questions the validity of the source. On the other hand,
>if I write an essay for school with my only reference being from
>Wikipedia, I can probably forget about getting an A.
>
>Another reason a Wiki engine is not a good idea for the OEIS is that
>the OEIS consists of a lot of numbers. Mistakes, like typos, are
>harder for a human to detect in a long stream of numbers. Try
>switching a couple of digits in an 20-digit palindromic prime. It
>could stand that way for a long time. Even worse, imagine a mistake in
>a 10-digit number where the only means of double-checking might be
>running a month-long calculation. On the other hand, if I write i
>before e after c in Wikipedia, you bet someone will correct it the
>next minute.
>
>The Wiki paradigm is excellent for many applications. The OEIS is not
>one of them.
>
>Alonso
>
>
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:15:03 -0500 (EST), N. J. A. Sloane
><njas at research.att.com> wrote:
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>>"Max" said:
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>>>Wouldn't it be a good idea to power up OEIS with a WiKi-like engine?
>>>That would allow everybody edit details of any sequence,
>>>and let the community take care of the OEIS and constantly improve it.
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>>Me: I don't like that idea at all. There are many objections.
>>
>>Imagine if your local hospital maintained its records
>>with a WiKi-like engine.
>>
>>And the OEIS is more important than that.
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>>NJAS
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I quite agree that the 'wikipedia' idea would be a disaster. Let's not 
mess up a really good set-up.
--Henry