Timeline for Why don't more mathematicians improve Wikipedia articles?
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 10:33 | comment | added | Geoff Robinson | In my own case, I ran out of energy. Several times I made corrections, only to have them re- edited to put the mistakes back in. On one or two occasions, I stuck to my guns, and it took long protracted exchanges before the correctness of my version was accepted. But I did not think it was worth that effort for relatively minor changes, so I just stopped. That was about a decade ago- perhaps things have changed in the meantime. | |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 1:38 | comment | added | roy smith | I once spent some time contributing to a wikipedia article about a topic I felt confident about, and have spent my whole career studying, including all the historical papers by the great masters. Not long after, essentially all my content had been replaced by people who were parroting the usual abstract treatments they apparently copied from books. I never tried again. On topics where I am ignorant, I do learn a lot from wiki articles | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 23:00 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson |
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| May 30, 2013 at 5:24 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 25, 2013 at 23:54 | answer | added | Alexander Chervov | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 25, 2013 at 23:34 | comment | added | Jakob | For those who do want to contribute to Wikipedia but don't know how/what etc., I have written a small guide, found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jakob.scholbach/… | |
| May 25, 2013 at 6:05 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | I think that the real question is how to make the mathematical part of wikipedia better, even excellent. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 4:14 | comment | added | ThiKu | The situation is much worse for the other languages rather than English. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 22:49 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | This question bothers me because regardless of how much mathematicians contribute, you can always ask why mathematicians don't contribute more time, which gives the (false?) impression that mathematicians are not contributing much. I think the mathematical sections of Wikipedia are actually quite good (compared with many others) due to the efforts of many mathematicians. Is there some evidence which says mathematicians don't contribute much? The graphs don't show any dramatic decline, and even if there were a decline, this doesn't mean current levels are low. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 21:27 | answer | added | Salix alba | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 20:19 | comment | added | Daniel Miller | For what it's worth, seeing this question made me feel guilty enough to go create a Wikipedia article on a topic not yet covered. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 18:30 | answer | added | Jérémy Blanc | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 17:59 | answer | added | Dick Palais | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 16:20 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 15:33 | comment | added | user5117 | Hi Mark! I think one important distinction between MO and WP is that with the latter, you never really know if someone has read what you've written, which is discouraging. (Although it doesn't stop us writing papers...) Another is that writing WP articles is very open-ended, which can be daunting. By contrast, it's often quick and easy to give a definitive answer to a question on MO. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 15:17 | answer | added | ex0du5 | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 14:16 | comment | added | anon | The mathematics pages I look at are generally quite good, so I don't feel any particular urge to try and improve them. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 14:01 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Mark M | ||
| May 22, 2013 at 13:49 | comment | added | darij grinberg | In my personal experience, it takes quite some self-confidence to make edits which remove someone else's content, and it's usually the wrong people who have this self-confidence. It's easier to add some remarks or fix a typo, and I do think mathematicians do this pretty often (some of the best known MOers are on wikipedia). | |
| May 22, 2013 at 13:34 | answer | added | Aaron Meyerowitz | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 11:51 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 34 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 11:28 | answer | added | Dustin G. Mixon | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 11:19 | answer | added | Neil Strickland | timeline score: 27 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 11:11 | answer | added | Waldemar | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 22, 2013 at 11:04 | history | asked | Mark M | CC BY-SA 3.0 |