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That’s an excellent idea!
I would support that, although I am not steering anything,;-)
Would it be possible to have a HomotopyForum too?
Since the range of includes , in principle there is no real need to have homotopy discussion separate from discussion here.
(But I gather that there may be some psychological barriers, even though maybe they needn’t be there.)
There is already an algtop email list, although it doesn’t get much traffic.
There is already an algtop email list,
I suppose David was thinking of a forum for the wiki editing, analogous to this one here.
we do understand that the role of these sub-wikis is to benefit the nLab and its contributors, and not merely a convenience for the general mathematics population.
I disagree to the extent that the nLab is used as a general resource, even if it started out as a place to archive our notes - I would be happy if the nlab server hosted the problems in homotopy theory wiki as a web - the benefits of being able to cross-pollinate outweigh any downsides I can think of. You might want your own url so as not to scare people off by using the nLab ’brand’ so conspicuously, but that is just an issue of implementation.
@Urs: Oh, I see.
@DavidRoberts: Yes, I agree that the scope of the other webs is potentially broader than just to benefit contributors, even if as a general rule we ask that someone establish themselves here first before requesting a personal web. A project of this sort seems like an eminently reasonable use.
@Urs #7: That’s right. Conversations about the wiki entries being edited might spark interesting discussion too.
One possible question is the extra traffic on the wiki site (and possibly on the forum). Would this slow things down?
I can create the web this afternoon.
Did anyone hear of Andrew lately? Is he maybe on vacation?
No idea who Anrew is … is that my replacement?
Been around, but busy: moving back to Norway (from sabbatical) and then getting things ready for the start of term (which was this week). So I’ve been keeping an eye on things, but not saying anything if nothing needed it.
Fixed, sorry.
if nothing needed it.
Technically there is a request to the steering committee here, and while I don’t expect you to object, maybe just say “Yes, I am in favor of creating a web for the ’Problems in homotopy theory’-project. “
Sorry, Urs! I guess I was waiting for a discussion to be opened in the steering committee section to chime in with my “Yes, I am in favoUr.”. Plus the nature of the request was a bit vague: “in the future”, so I wasn’t thinking I needed to jump straight in.
Technically, migration should be quite easy since it is currently on an instiki installation. With regard to the forum idea, we could start with simply a dedicated category on the nForum and then migrate to a separate forum if traffic warrants.
we could start with simply a dedicated category on the nForum and then migrate to a separate forum if traffic warrants.
Great idea.
a dedicated category on the nForum
I thought that might be a good way to start as well.
Have created the web now, here it is:
To have a separate URL then you need to own that URL. Then you point it at the nLab and I set it up so that when a request comes for that particular URL then the request ends up at the homotopy problem web. So the first step is to choose and register a domain name.
Just out of curiosity: I see that the new web hasn’t been touched at all. Do you need any help with migrating? Or did plans change? Should we remove the web again?
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