Quick answers: (1) I will be using GFDL for licensing. I don't know much about these things, but it seemed like the right license to use (I compared a Creative Commons license). Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to put the licensing info on the site. Hopefully I'll figure this out in the next few days - mediawiki has some standard mechanism for displaying licenses on the site which I will use. If you think that a CC license is more appropriate for some reason, I'd be interested to know.
(2) It's true that there are many other small math sites out there. I spent a large time looking at them, and some are quite good. There are a few reasons I wanted to separate. First, I want to put a system in place for insuring consistency, and that articles are only written by "experts" (against the wiki-spirit, I know). Second, I want a great deal more structure - I want a very solid mathematical core to be the base, and more flexible perspectives and pedagogy added later. Third, I was very interested in implementing a "semantic wiki", using the "Semantic Mediawiki Extension" (and extensions thereof) -- the links of the wiki are really "semantic links", which aid navigation and querying. In addition to capturing more structure of mathematical knowledge, semantic links can be used for project management and quality control -- features that I find absent from many other math sites. - Marty On Oct 14, 4:04 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This post is technically a bit off topic, but William suggested that > > there are many people on this group who have technical expertise in > > mathematics and technology, and a passion for open education > > resources. > > Interesting project. Questions: > > 1) I don't see the license statement for the wiki anywhere. If this is > "open" then I assume you are using GFDL or something similar? > > 2) Is there a reason why you are not using planetmath or wikiuniversity > (or whatever it is called) or one of several other similar sites out there > already? > > > > > With the assistance of a small grant from the University of > > California, Santa Cruz (where I am an asst. prof. of mathematics), I > > have started development of the "SlugMath Project". Although it is > > under construction (not yet ready for wide distribution) It can be > > viewed at: http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page > > > The SlugMath project is a semantic wiki, which aims to (eventually) > > contain a complete curriculum for undergraduate majors in pure > > mathematics. This will include a complete derivation of the main > > results of abstract and linear algebra, real and complex analysis, > > geometry, etc.., that an undergraduate mathematics major might learn. > > The presentation will hopefully have the rigor of Bourbaki, although > > with much narrower scope, and will be oriented towards the > > undergraduate reader. Semantic links allow this presentation to be > > structured, to facilitate querying and navigation. > > > Much can be written about the goals and features of this project. > > Some pages on the wiki that illustrate its features are the following: > > * The main help page might answer questions. This page is at > >http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Help:Contents > > * The help page also has a link to "long term goals". > > * The "Basic Number Theory" cluster page demonstrates how knowledge > > can be localized in clusters, and deductive connections are > > automatically assembled into a directed graph (using the graphviz > > package and semantic data). This page is at > >http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Clust/Basic_number_theory > > * The definition of a group demonstrates how examples are > > automatically collected, listed, and sorted on a page. This page is > > athttp://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Def/Group > > * The statement and proof of Zolotarev's lemma illustrates the color- > > coding and templating of proofs. This page is at > >http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/State/Zolotarevs_lemma > > > To get math to appear correctly, without downloading fonts, you can > > select "use unicode fonts" from the jsMath control panel options. > > Please do *not* join or edit the wiki, and do not publicize it further > > (I don't want to have to "lock it down" at the moment). > > > With this introduction, I will get to the point of this post: > > > I am hoping to find other qualified individuals to join in and work on > > this project. In particular, I am looking for practicing research > > mathematicians to work on developing the core mathematical knowledge > > further. Eventually, I would like to involve graduate students and > > others in writing examples and checking for accuracy and consistency. > > I am also looking for experienced programmers (e.g. PHP and > > javascript) to develop some custom extensions for this wiki -- anyone > > with experience writing mediawiki extensions would be greatly desired! > > > I am considering applying for an NSF grant within the next few > > months. If any mathematicians and/or programmers would be interested > > in joining in and applying for such a grant, I would be very > > interested to hear from you. Please contact me directly at weissman > > AT ucsc DOT edu, or by replying to this post, if you are interested. > > > Again, this post is off-topic for the SAGE forum. But, I would > > certainly be interested in having SAGE code included in the project -- > > one could attach code samples which relate to definitions, examples, > > and theorems in the mathematical content area of the website. I am > > sure there are other possibilities for integration, which I cannot > > think of. > > > This is already a very long post -- I would be very interested to hear > > your feedback, and hopefully to develop future collaboration. > > > - Marty Weissman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
