tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post113588539991128679..comments2023-04-04T01:08:34.794-07:00Comments on Siva's Glob of Thoughts: WikiNotesD. Sivakumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05750992965116762335noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post-1141291456117098552006-03-02T01:24:00.000-08:002006-03-02T01:24:00.000-08:00Good idea, but it seems that students did not crea...Good idea, but it seems that students did not create much new content.<BR/> Perhaps, writing to Wikipedia assumes too much responsability in constrast to writing to blog, so students were afraid of writing. <BR/>Some blog posts are quite good to be included into WikiPedia, but they were not included.alopatenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290283498284907554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post-1136199066234218512006-01-02T02:51:00.000-08:002006-01-02T02:51:00.000-08:00The benefit to using comp.theory (or sci.crypt) is...The benefit to using comp.theory (or sci.crypt) is that you get a lot of exposure to people outside your immediate sphere. In sci.crypt, at least, there are also several commenters who are extremely sharp. For example, that's where I first corresponded with David Wagner and Jonathan Katz.<BR/><BR/>The downside is that there are many people who don't know much and a few actively detrimental people involved. This makes discussions interesting sometimes; you need a lot of patience. <BR/><BR/>In the case of cryptography, there's also the cryptography moderated mailing list, which tends to cut down on some of the worst excesses of usenet. I am not familiar with a similar mailing list for theory in general; Lance links to V.Z. Nuri's theory-edge mailing list, which I haven't been on in a while...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post-1135963932226502502005-12-30T09:32:00.000-08:002005-12-30T09:32:00.000-08:00Just to clarify, we did contribute a couple of art...Just to clarify, we did contribute a couple of articles to Wikipedia. But not as much as we would have liked to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post-1135963245656324292005-12-30T09:20:00.000-08:002005-12-30T09:20:00.000-08:00Thanks Siva.I must admit that it was an experiment...Thanks Siva.<BR/><BR/>I must admit that it was an experiment and we didn't go the full length. Contributing to Wikipedia was "encouraged," not a requirement. Maybe next time :-)<BR/><BR/>Blogging was enforced, but there wasn't much of quality control. The original plan was to hopefully have some participation from folks outside our campus. But somehow we didn't push it that far.<BR/><BR/>David's suggestion is interesting. I have never used these other CS theory forums though.<BR/><BR/>ManojAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16984363.post-1135922388864093642005-12-29T21:59:00.000-08:002005-12-29T21:59:00.000-08:00That is a good idea! Maybe another idea would be t...That is a good idea! Maybe another idea would be to encourage participation in comp.theory or some other appropriate forum. I find that these allow for much more of a back-and-forth than weblog comment discussions or editing wikis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com