PlanetMath
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PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, mathematics online encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is currently hosted by the University of Waterloo. The site is owned by a US-based nonprofit corporation, "PlanetMath.org, Ltd".[1]
PlanetMath was started when the popular free online mathematics encyclopedia
Materials
The main PlanetMath focus is on encyclopedic entries. It formerly operated a self-hosted forum, but now encourages discussion via Gitter.
As of 15 February 2013[update], the encyclopedia hosted about 9,289 entries and over 16,258 concepts (a concept may be for example a specific notion defined within a more general entry).[2] An overview of the current PlanetMath contents is also available.[3] About 300 Wikipedia entries incorporate text from PlanetMath articles; they are listed in Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from PlanetMath.
An all-inclusive PlanetMath Free Encyclopedia book of 2,300 pages is available for the encyclopedia contents up to 2006 as a free download PDF file.[4]
Content development model
PlanetMath implements a specific content creation system called authority model.[5]
An author who starts a new article becomes its owner, that is the only person authorized to edit that article. Other users may add corrections and discuss improvements but the resulting modifications of the article, if any, are always made by the owner. However, if there are long lasting unresolved corrections, the ownership can be removed. More precisely, after two weeks the system starts to remind the owner by mail; at six weeks any user can "adopt" the article; at eight weeks the ownership of the entry is completely removed (and such an entry is called "orphaned").
To make the development more smooth, the owner may also choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups.
The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles. The topic area of every article is classified by the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
The site is supervised by the Content Committee. Its basic mission is to maintain the integrity and quality of the mathematical content and organization of PlanetMath.[6] As defined in its Charter, the tasks of the Committee include:
- Developing/maintaining the standards for PlanetMath content
- Improving individual PlanetMath entries in its Encyclopedia, Book, Paper, and Exposition)
- Developing topic areas
- Developing/improving site and user documentation
- Managing the PlanetMath Request list and Unproved Theorems list
- Improving categorization and other meta-attributes of entries.
- Developing software recommendations for improved content authoring and editorial functions.
Technical details
PlanetMath content is licensed under the
The software running PlanetMath is written in
Related projects
Encyclopedic content and bibliographic materials related to
See also
References
- ^ Self-descriptions of PM "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), "Planetmath.org | Math for the people, by the people". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2008-05-02. "Helping PlanetMath". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2009-05-19. - ^ "PlanetMath Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15.
- ^ "Overview of the content of PlanetMath". Planetmath.org. 2013-03-21. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
- ^ PlanetMath "Free Encyclopedia" book Archived June 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine based on 2004-2005 content of PlanetMath
- ^ Noosphere's Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine authority model
- ^ Username *. "ContentCommittee Charter". Planetmath.org. Archived from the original on 2010-11-26. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
- ^ PlanetPhysics.org Archived February 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Free Book downloads in PDF format, Original Papers (~10 pages) and Expositions (>30 pages) [dead link]
External links
- Official website
- "PlanetPhysics". Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.
- Klemm, Aaron E. (Feb 16, 2005). "Motivation and value of free resources: Wikipedia and Planetmath show the way". Free Software magazine.
- "Motivation and value of free resources" (PDF). Free Software Magazine (1): 52–56. Feb 2005.
- "Web Projects: Grassroots Math Guide". Science. Netwatch. 308 (5729). .
- Lange, Christoph (2008). "SWiM – A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management". The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). Vol. 5021. pp. 832–837. S2CID 167021.
- Milson, Robert; Krowne, Aaron (2005). "Adapting CBPP platforms for instructional use". arXiv:cs/0507028.
- Andrew, Alex M. (2008). "Archives, mathematics encyclopaedia, dancing robots, ASC". Kybernetes. 37 (9/10): 1466–1468. .