[seqfan] Re: twitter-like features on OEIS

[Charles Greathouse]

>  - refering to an arxiv article less than a month old

That would be a neat user script: when on the arXiv [front] page for a
paper, show a list of sequences referencing it (just the top 10 if
more are used).

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Olivier Gerard
<olivier.gerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Like many others I would very much like to have a way to subscribe to
> sequence modifications
> (by tweets, RSS feeds, daily email, or any other technological variation).
> It is a pity we
> can do it on the wiki but not on the sequences. We must also be careful not
> to overload
> the OEIS systems with generation of outgoing contents.
>
> But I think this would be a very bad idea to have a "just modified by many
> or trendy sequence" feed.
> It could generate many concurrent edits, especially on sequence with already
> a large
> number of items, links, comments, which are already difficult enough.
>
> I think an encyclopedia is not a place for this kind attention pikes.
>
> But we can certainly think about various ways to browse the OEIS and
> discover its depth, picking for instance.
>
>  - random (like the OEIS webcam)
>  - random inside a particular thematic or keywords
>  - recent nice sequences
>  - recent sequence with added b-file
>  - refering to an arxiv article less than a month old
>  - ...
>
> Anything which can increase the serendipituous qualities of the OEIS
> could be beneficial.
>
> Olivier
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 20:08, Charles Greathouse <
> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:
>
>> It should be possible to make a script that scrapes the
>> keyword:changed|keyword:new search page to update a database that
>> would allow these.  I think seeing trending sequences would be cool --
>> at a first stab, this could be 'sequences which have been edited by
>> many people recently'.  Unfortunately this would only work for
>> sequences which have been approved, which limits its Twitter-like
>> speed.  I guess it could scrape /drafts as well.
>>
>> Charles Greathouse
>> Analyst/Programmer
>> Case Western Reserve University
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Dear Seqfans, Someone asked if the new OEIS has
>> >> any of the following twitter-like capabilities:
>> >> - following a contributor
>> >> - friending a sequence
>> >> - trending
>> >> - etc.
>> >>
>> >> I don't use twitter myself. Can the OEIS do these things?
>> >> If someone can tell me how, I will add a note to the
>> >> Welcome Page (which I am currently working on).
>> >
>> > At the moment, the OEIS doesn't do any of these things,
>> > which are all ways of saying "notify me when X happens"
>> > for some value of X.
>> >
>> > Russ
>> >
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