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Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg53948] Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:15:00 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

you don't realy plan to name the site "Mma-users" ?
This abrevation is not well accepted by some very
prominet Mathematica users ..

Regards
  Jens

"Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:ctni1a$eu2$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Announcement: http://www.mma-users.org/
>
> We know through Mathgroup that the Mathematica community is very active.
> I recently opened a web site to complement the tools already available
> to the community. This web site is exclusively about Mathematica amd
>
> It is powered by Wikimedia which enables any user to modify any page on
> the site, similarly to Wikipedia the encyclopedia, and it has been
> modified to enable the upload (and download) of Mathematica notebooks.
>
> A key goal of this web site is to promote interaction between
> Mathematica users through sharing content and working together on
> projects. I also hope to see users add their review of books and/or
> Mathematica packages
>
> I hope you will find the time to continue to contribute to mathgroup but
> also to interact with the Mathematica users through the web site. I also
> wonder if users will want to specialize a few pages for non English
> communities.
>
> I would like to thank Remi Barrere and Pierre Albarede who helped me put
> together the skeleton of a first structure for the site. Obviously that
> structure will evolve to reflect any new content.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Luc Barthelet
>
> P.S. Steve, thanks for letting me publish this on the mathgroup
> dist-list.
>