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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
12:52 AM
A new chatroom on MO has been created:
in Geometry+physics, 4 hours ago, by Arun Debray
A few friends and I have mentioned that we'd be interested in a MO chatroom analogous to the homotopy theory chatroom (https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/9417/homotopy-theory), but for stuff at the interface between geometry (and sometimes topology) and physics (typically QFT but also other stuff)

 Geometry+physics

A room for people interested in interactions between geometry,...
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
8:47 AM
Considering that several users around here often imply that MathOverflow somehow has moral high ground compared to Mathematics (which is called all sorts of unflattering name), it seems a bit embarrassing to the local community that the problem with copy-pasted tag-wikis without any attribution was brought up on meta in April 2016 and ignored since then.
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Q: Recent suggested tag wiki edits

Stefan KohlToday [Apr 21 '16] and yesterday there were a considerable number of suggested edits to previously empty tag wikis and tag wiki excerpts (browse here; viewing the full list requires >=10K points, I think), all by the same user. These edits mostly didn't really follow the guidelines on writing go...

discussion tags suggested-edits tag-wikis
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A: Recent suggested tag wiki edits

Dmitri PavlovThe problem seems to be more serious: the tag wiki edits by this user seem to copy-paste material from sites like MathWorld, which requires a license for commercial use (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/about/faq.html#copyright), for example, https://mathoverflow.net/tags/axiom-of-choice/info is copy...

Concerning the problematic tag-wikis mentioned in Stefan Kohl's post, I have only seen one tag-wiki edited by S. Carnahan and one edited by jeq (Joseph Quinsey).
in MO editors' lounge, Aug 19 at 23:09, by Martin Sleziak
It seems that some users have taken a different approach how to deal with problematic tag-wikis - complete removal. For example, the edit by S. Carnahan on the zeta-functions tag-wiki and the edits by jeq on the orthogonal-matrices tag-excerpt and tag-wiki.
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
9:52 AM
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A: List questions: Community Wiki?

Robert CartainoThere's nothing inherently wrong with your "I need a comprehensive list" question; It's just that we specifically forgo asking these types of questions because they are not a good fit for this type of Q&A site. Stack Exchange is well-suited to asking very specific questions that represent real ...

> What I am saying is that the Big List™ breaks down the whole premise of why we created these sites in the first place — to vet and deem the information contained in the post as useful. Marking a question as "community wiki" does not take away from the inherent randomness of the discussion that becomes the thread.
 
 
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vzn
vzn
5:45 PM
in The h Bar, 15 hours ago, by vzn
there was some discussion of the poincare-perelman proof in here awhile back esp wrt the new yorker Nasar-Gruber article. fyi reddit recently revisited/ rehashed some of the same angles https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/98i9j7/the_clash_over_the_poincar%C3%A9_c‌​onjecture_2006/
 

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