From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6753 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Bartels Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Comments on a wikipedia article on a Timeline of Category theory Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 07:37:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Toby Bartels NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310312137 4113 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2011 15:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: Peter Selinger Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Jul 10 17:35:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.30]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qfw2c-0004L5-RL for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:60893) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qfw0i-0005m7-QG; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:33:32 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qfw0i-0007wZ-1q for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:33:32 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6753 Archived-At: Peter Selinger wrote in part: >I was intrigued by the question of who composed this Wikipedia >"timeline of category theory". A closer look at the article's history >shows that the list of entries was almost entirely created by a single >user, "Fotino", between September 2008 and July 2009. Fotino is Rafael Borowiecki, who also contributed the timeline to the nLab: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Timeline+of+category+theory+and+related+mathematics There it has received some edits and criticism, but was mostly ignored, and in fact has not yet had the wiki-syntax fully converted yet. --Toby [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]