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== Spam and disabling anonymous editing ==
== Polymath Logo ==
 
It would be cool to have a polymath logo to replace "set $wgLogo to the URL path...".


Spam seems to be quite a problem. Most (all?) of the spam is coming from anonymous accounts.  What would other people think about changing the wiki settings so only people logged in can make edits?  On many wikis this greatly reduces (but does not necessarily entirely eliminate) spam. If I get a couple of affirmative responses from active editors, I'll make the change.
:Done. A logo is being trialled. [[User:MichaelNielsen|MichaelNielsen]] 00:59, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
--[[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 11:13, 24 June 2009 (UTC) (Michael Nielsen)


== Links ==


I would be in favour of requiring log in. I have deleted spam entries and restored entries overwritten by spam more or less daily. (Klas Markström)


Klas - Thanks for the reply.  If one or two more people are in agreement, and no-one disagrees, then I'll make the change.--[[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 16:49, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
* ?!? wikisysop whats the problem with the [[Jun Fukuyama's P≠NP Paper]] link? [[User:vzn|vzn]] 12/9/2012


I agree. Requiring login should not be too much of an inconvenience for genuine contributors. [[User:Teorth|Terry]] 20:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
: ... [earlier conversation]


Okay, I've made the change (Tim let me know in email that he was happy with this change as well)Let me know if there's any problem - I've never changed the editing permissions before, and it might have some unexpected side effects.  I'll also add a note to the front page.  If there's a lot of complaints, I'll change it back. --[[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 23:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
::Returning to this conversation after a couple of days of other commitments intervenedNote that I'm now signed in as [[User:MichaelNielsen|MichaelNielsen]], which seems more appropriate than my WikiSysop login. [[User:MichaelNielsen|MichaelNielsen]] 01:02, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


== Polymath Logo ==
::To the issue: it wasn't at all clear that you were proposing a collaborative evaluation of his proof.  Now that you have, I quite agree that it'd be good to have a sensible process for proposing problems on the wiki. At the moment those have mostly been going on the page [[Other proposed projects]], which is linked prominently on the main page.  At present I don't see a problem with putting this proposal on that page.  What do you think? [[User:MichaelNielsen|MichaelNielsen]] 01:08, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 
::Over the longer run (and independent of this particular proposal), there is a real issue, which is that we need some better process for deciding what's a reasonable way of proposing projects, which is both open enough, but also doesn't waste people's time on uninteresting proposals.  This seems like a tricky balance to get right.  In an ideal world, wiki software would make it so users only saw things which will be of interest to them.  Unfortunately, we don't yet live in that world. [[User:MichaelNielsen|MichaelNielsen]] 01:11, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 
== Misc ==
 
* could someone fix the editing help link on the bottom of the wiki edit page & on home page? isnt there a built in help page for this wiki software? it currently leads to [http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Help:Contents empty page]. not very user friendly eh? in particular is there a tag that substitutes in the current time for discussion edits? [[user:vzn|vzn]] 12/10/2012
 
: software is apparently [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents mediawiki]? [[User:Vzn|Vzn]] 19:08, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 
* idea: some kind of voting/weighting/ranking system for prioritizing/sorting projects and gauging user interest/support [[user:vzn|vzn]] 12/10/2012<br>
 
: note that stackexchange (used by [http://mathoverflow.net mathoverflow]) has very neat capabilities and functionality. imagine a stackexchange dedicated to polymath. this would allow voting on polymath-related items such as proposals, partial results/directions/ideas etc.  unfortunately the stackexchange requirements for membership base are high, it possibly requires a few hundred users minimum to commit, but maybe they could consider a special worthwhile case? new stackexchange proposals are on [http://area51.stackexchange.com area51]. [[User:Vzn|Vzn]] 17:23, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 
 
== Test edit ==


It would be cool to have a polymath logo to replace "set $wgLogo to the URL path...".
Please ignore. [[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 21:35, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 13:35, 22 October 2014

It would be cool to have a polymath logo to replace "set $wgLogo to the URL path...".

Done. A logo is being trialled. MichaelNielsen 00:59, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Links

... [earlier conversation]
Returning to this conversation after a couple of days of other commitments intervened. Note that I'm now signed in as MichaelNielsen, which seems more appropriate than my WikiSysop login. MichaelNielsen 01:02, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
To the issue: it wasn't at all clear that you were proposing a collaborative evaluation of his proof. Now that you have, I quite agree that it'd be good to have a sensible process for proposing problems on the wiki. At the moment those have mostly been going on the page Other proposed projects, which is linked prominently on the main page. At present I don't see a problem with putting this proposal on that page. What do you think? MichaelNielsen 01:08, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Over the longer run (and independent of this particular proposal), there is a real issue, which is that we need some better process for deciding what's a reasonable way of proposing projects, which is both open enough, but also doesn't waste people's time on uninteresting proposals. This seems like a tricky balance to get right. In an ideal world, wiki software would make it so users only saw things which will be of interest to them. Unfortunately, we don't yet live in that world. MichaelNielsen 01:11, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Misc

  • could someone fix the editing help link on the bottom of the wiki edit page & on home page? isnt there a built in help page for this wiki software? it currently leads to empty page. not very user friendly eh? in particular is there a tag that substitutes in the current time for discussion edits? vzn 12/10/2012
software is apparently mediawiki? Vzn 19:08, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
  • idea: some kind of voting/weighting/ranking system for prioritizing/sorting projects and gauging user interest/support vzn 12/10/2012
note that stackexchange (used by mathoverflow) has very neat capabilities and functionality. imagine a stackexchange dedicated to polymath. this would allow voting on polymath-related items such as proposals, partial results/directions/ideas etc. unfortunately the stackexchange requirements for membership base are high, it possibly requires a few hundred users minimum to commit, but maybe they could consider a special worthwhile case? new stackexchange proposals are on area51. Vzn 17:23, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


Test edit

Please ignore. WikiSysop 21:35, 22 October 2014 (UTC)