Timeline for Why don't more mathematicians improve Wikipedia articles?
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| May 25, 2013 at 23:50 | comment | added | Jakob | Another page that might be helpful for finding a topic to edit is this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/… It contains a summary of all WP math articles, ordered by topic. So, if you are a topologist, say, you easily find a topic that is important, but not (yet) in good shape (both the degree of importance and quality is somewhat subjective, of course, and is just a rough approximation.) | |
| May 22, 2013 at 21:09 | comment | added | Dick Palais | @Mark M YES! That is a very good approximation of what I was asking for. Thanks for telling me about it. It is now one of my "pinned" tabs and I will try to help with the project. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 19:26 | comment | added | Mark M | Darij, those lists are automatically compiled, and consist of articles which somebody decided to "tag" with the relevant issue. Once the issue is solved, then you can untag the article, and it disappears from the list. Clearing backlogs is satisfying! :-) | |
| May 22, 2013 at 19:25 | comment | added | Mark M | Dick, almost all of what you have suggested is already exists, and it's called WikiProject Mathematics - and we'd like your help! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics | |
| May 22, 2013 at 18:21 | comment | added | Misha | Here is "Yair Minsky" approach to "where to start": Each time a grad student walks into his office and asks a question for which there is no (good) wiki answer, Yair writes a short wiki article. (At least, he used to do so.) | |
| May 22, 2013 at 18:03 | comment | added | darij grinberg | There's a bit of the functionality you want implemented: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/Mathematics / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/… / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics_stubs / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Mathematics . I don't know who (and how) decides what should go on those pages, though... | |
| May 22, 2013 at 17:59 | history | answered | Dick Palais | CC BY-SA 3.0 |