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| ``Occam's Razor, PM vs. WIkipedia''
by matte on 2004-10-14 14:27:10 |
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| How should we go about with entries that are already
in a very finished state at Wikipedia? For example,
in the case of this entry, it feels like a waste of
time composing a new entry, when there already exists
a fine article on Wikipedia. Also, I think this goes
against the whole principle of FDL.
As I understand things (and I might be wrong),
Wikipedia uses almost the same license as PM; so
we could copy material to PM from Wikipedia as long as we credit
the authors that have written the entry. Is this right?
How should such crediting be done? Is it for example
enough to mention that this entry is based on the
Wikipedia article xxx, version yyy?
I am not proposing a massive copy operation from W.
into PM as is. Clearly any material added to PM needs
to be scrutinized so that it fits into the existing PM
definitions.
- Quality\neq quantity.
- all material should be verified that it is actually
real mathematics. Are there any errors in the material.
- Wikipedia entries tend to be very long, and some
editing might be in place. For example, the
Occam's Razor entry contains much information that
has nothing to do with its use in mathematics.
- Should wiki-based entries be treated as "normal" entries
(editing policy/points)?
One approach would be to create "link" entries that are
essentially just links to an external resource. Much like
this entry is in its current state. For example, while
we eventually will want to have our own biography entries,
at the moment there are much better entries for example
on Wikipedia and on
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/
With this in mind, it would make sense to create an
'Newton' entry that, say is world editable, and just contains
links to the aforementioned sites. This way, Newton will
be linked at PM, and over time we can build up a real biography
entry. This is the 'seed entry' idea that has been up on
discussion before.
What do you think?
Matte
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