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Peer Produced Peer Learning: A Mathematics Case
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di cult - making sure people don't abuse the website [...] There is a lot of random nonsense on the website meaning the signal to noise ratio is rather low.
Mathworld and Wikipedia o er introductions to / serious history of math threads, almost never o er proofs.
PlanetMath entries o er deeper history of math thread discussions that almost always include proofs.
Wikipedia is easier to use but harder to keep, and PM has taken the bad habit from Wikipedia of erasing too much and creating too little. The problem is that planetmath does not take into account how quali ed a contributor is. Anyone can take a topic simply by being the rst one to claim it, rather than being the one most quali ed to write it. This leads to great problems in quality. There is unfortunately more focus on quantity rather than quality. If I am to accept that, wikipedia seems a better place.
rendering is too slow
LaTeX poses di culties search simply doesn't work well most of the time
tedious - graphing on pm [...] Graphics are very hard to do at this site.
I think an enduring value of PM is that it eschews NPOV and allows there to be multiple entries, if only for di erent ideas of how to present a topic
Probably the toughest thing has been to keep everything overall running smoothly (as an admin), and as a user, I found it problematic not having better "segmentation" of the content so that users contributing di erent sort of types of material didn't "step on each other's toes"
Implementation of PDF and book creation modes would boost the usefulness of the website, as well as the ability to archive preprints and reprints in an e cient manner
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