I'm still opposed to an OEIS wiki

Max Alekseyev maxale at gmail.com
Thu May 8 17:16:23 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:06 AM, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Seqfans,  I think the idea of a wiki about the OEIS
> is a terrible one.  It would inevitably produce two
> versions of sequences, and it would make my job even harder
> than it is now.

Neil,

But even now we have two versions of OEIS: one ("production version")
is available online, while the other ("development version") is formed
by all yet unprocessed comments and new sequences in the queue that
you are processing.
OEIS version will simply provide a different organization of the two
versions and allow associate editors access to the second version for
preliminary filtering/formatting before your approval. That should
dramatically reduce the length of the queue of unprocessed commend as
well as the time delay for meaningful comments/sequences to get into
the production version (as I understand, currently this delay is up to
a half an year and still growing - something should be done to reduce
it).

Regards,
Max





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