I'm still opposed to an OEIS wiki

[zak seidov]

--- Max Alekseyev <maxale at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

And let me remind my (old) suggestion for
(almost automatically filled) received.txt
and (final OEIS) files.
This very simple and almost evident suggestion
is still rejected by Neil
(God knows why).
zak



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