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  • From: pitman AT stat.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Pitman)
  • To: jschneider AT pobox.com, jon AT fabricatorz.com
  • Cc: dchandler AT gmail.com, acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki-general Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15
  • Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:32:19 -0700

Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:

> Great suggestion on features. I think we have to weight the potential
> impact for features being added. Please move it back I think August is
> too hard right now to get that feature out. Can we entice you Jim and
> others to help dev. on this?

I am more academic than developer so I think the best I can do is try to hook
you up the dev group at Bremen and keep an eye
on how things are developing. They have expertise in diagrams and graphs as
well as LaTeX.
Some integration of acawiki with the planetary system
http://trac.mathweb.org/planetary/wiki would seem very desirable.
If there is good LaTeX support (perhaps what is there now is adequate, I did
not check)
then I could see getting math/stat students at Berkeley to start contributing
summaries to acawiki, most likely also providing them in some form on
a Berkeley or Bremen site.

As a related matter, it is important in an academic environment that authors
get explicit credit for their work.
The fact that authors have particular affiliations may give their sumaries
more authority than if the affiliation and
status of authors were not known. acawiki may need to accomodate these
considerations more explicitly to reach its
full potential. I'd be interested in reactions to this idea.

--Jim
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Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
University of California
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks again for the suggestion, Jim. I just added this to the roadmap for
> > August:
> > * Improve LaTeX support, needed for any serious effort in mathematics and
> > related fields. Contact for advice, Michael Kohlhase at Bremen
> > His [http://kwarc.info/ group] has state-of-the-art tools for LaTeX to
> > XML/HTML support and are the current maintainers/developers of Bruce
> > Miller's [http://trac.mathweb.org/LaTeXML/ LaTeXML]
> > As far as I can tell, the roadmap is a plan/wishlist for the work
> > Fabricatorz is doing, in collaboration with the community.
> > -Jodi
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman AT stat.berkeley.edu>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Dana Chandler <dchandler AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > I was just curious, what is the current state of LaTeX support in
> >> >> > acawiki?
> >> >
> >> > Currently we're using a MediaWiki plugin that supports LaTeX [1].
> >> > Enclose
> >> > LaTeX in <math>...</math> tags.
> >> > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> > Is there a TexVC implementation?
> >> >> > More broadly, what are people's thoughts on whether there should be
> >> >> > equations, diagrams, and graphs in the academic summaries?
> >> >
> >> > Absolutely, we need them!
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I imagine that
> >> >> > many of these would be confusing or not useful for a general
> >> >> > audience,
> >> >> > but
> >> >> > would be necessary for it to be of any value to an academic
> >> >> > audience.
> >> >> > Any thoughts?
> >> >>
> >> >> Essential to provide LaTeX support for any serious effort in
> >> >> mathematics
> >> >> and related fields.
> >> >> Michael Kohlhase's group at Bremen  http://kwarc.info/ has
> >> >> state-of-the-art tools
> >> >> for LaTeX to XML/HTML support. They are the current
> >> >> maintainers/developers
> >> >> of Bruce Miller's
> >> >> LaTeXML http://trac.mathweb.org/LaTeXML/
> >> >> If acawiki dev has any cycles for LaTeX support I suggest contacting
> >> >> Michael for advice.
> >> >
> >> > Good idea! That belongs on the roadmap.
> >>
> >> Totally: http://acawiki.org/Acawiki:Roadmap
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jon Phillips
> >> http://fabricatorz.com/
> >> chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon
> >> +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf)
> >> +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jon Phillips
> http://fabricatorz.com/
> chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon
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