phoebe ayers wrote: > interesting quick article about the trials and tribulations of other > open access encyclopedia projects: > http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/encyclopedias
Quite a lot there about plato.stanford.edu (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), which certainly seems highly reputable and a reliable source, though I'm not in a position to judge it as a professional. Not mentioned is eom.springer.de (Encyclopaedia of Mathematics from Springer), which is very useful for referencing things. But has some typical problems related to the article's concerns, and to our own views on experts. There is the matter of updating: if you look at http://eom.springer.de/F/f038390.htm and http://eom.springer.de/F/f110070.htm you can see that they haven't bothered to merge to update on Fermat's Last Theorem; just added http://eom.springer.de/F/f110060.htm. http://eom.springer.de/S/s120140.htm on the Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture manages not to mention FLT as corollary. Having one author per article seems clumsy in these circumstances. The basic encyclopedia is translated from a Soviet-era publication. While overall the coverage is still more respectable than ours, in some ways, there are some issues one can see with POV in the additional articles they have commissioned. I can see us overtaking it eventually in quality. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
