From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6766 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Dawson Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Timelines for category theory: a response to comments Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:11:17 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Robert Dawson NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310479120 9947 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 13:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:58:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Jul 12 15:58:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgdTt-0001H9-85 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:57951) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QgdRO-000187-NG; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:55:58 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgdRN-00069S-VV for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:55:57 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6766 Archived-At: Ronnie Brown wrote: > We therefore propose that the present article be replaced by a list of > topics with links to articles on timelines of those topics. And then > each "timeline" should be written by a chosen group of experts. Our > first draft of topics would be: Ronnie: No doubt the project you have described is an excellent one, but "propose that the article be replaced" just isn't how Wikipedia works - let alone "should be written by a chosen group of experts." This is like suggesting that a school talent show would be better if instead of having all those random kids singing & dancing they hired some real professionals. Or like saying MacDonald's would be a great restaurant if they ditched the burgers and chips. There's nothing stopping you from putting together the project you describe; and some parts of it could be accomplished on Wikipedia. But why? It could not be exactly what you want, and conversely you don't seem to think the Wikipedia model is very useful for what you would like to do. There are lots of other Internet service providers out there. Cheers, Robert [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]