Not really about Sage, but definitely about Sage's spirit !

[Nathann Cohen]

Helloooooooooooooooo everybody !!!

I write here because I have a question to ask to a large mathematical crowd : a friend and I discussed at lunch, and we would like to do some "open research", that is to have some kind of wikipedia-like website for ... research.

What we would put there is "whatever we work on". Definitions, drafts, actually the very tex files on which we work day after day. It would contain the result of our experiments, and we would like to write there and "aloud" all the notes we would take for ourselves when working on a mathematical problem. We would not forget anything, and it would be public.

I ask this question here because you probably have opinions and advices about this, because I remember that William once published his latex folder on his web page... And because I am curious of what you would have to say, all in all O_o

The point is that we may eventually end up with "free scientific journals" at some point, but we could also do all this much earlier in the research process. That is, *while* the research is going on.

What do you think ? It would be nice if some of you are interested to join in, or if you know that something like that already exists so that we can join it ourselves, or if you have a nice tool in mind to make this kind of publication easier. Including LaTeX and pictures seems to be all we need, as well as some nice way to create links between pages.

I'm all ears. Have fun everybody !!!

Nathann

[Samuel Lelièvre]

Hi Nathan

this is something that's probably "in the air" and I bet quite a few people

are thinking of things along these lines too.

It's not unrelated to the 'PolyMath' projects,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project

a type of 'massively collaborative mathematics projects'

    http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible/

discussed and practiced by Tim Gowers.

In terms of tools, you might be interested in this page:

    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Collaborative_Writing_of_LaTeX_Documents

Samuel

2013-05-23 Nathann Cohen:

[Paul-Olivier Dehaye]

http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage does something similar.

See "Purpose" section

[Nathann Cohen]

Hey, it's exactly what I was talking about :-D

Except that they have a "committee". But well.

It does no seem so big, though. I wonder if I will join it or fork it :-)

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks !

And if anybody here is interested, please drop a line !

Nathann

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