Jason Grout wrote:
> Pat LeSmithe wrote:
>> William Stein wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative
>>>> mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would
>>>> be useful in fully-fledged forums? For example, one might embed a live
>>>> cell with a plot, equation, derivation, etc., in a post, in order to
>>>> illustrate a point in a thread about smooth operators, rank tensors,
>>>> etc. Thoughts?
>>> Yes! +1 It would be great to have things like that.
>>>
>>>> (MathLinks, which is oriented to problem solving, appears to be the most
>>>> prominent example of LaTeX-enabled forums:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/index.php
>>>>
>>>> Their software appears to be a heavily customized version of phpBB.
>>>> Other examples, especially blogs, abound.)
>>>>
>>>> My apologies for my ignorance and naivete.
>>> Well you're just right that it would be great to have some new web-app
>>> that uses similar underlying technology to the Sage notebook, but is
>>> more like facebook or some sort of community driven discussion and
>>> collaboration environment.
>> Similarly, but perhaps on a smaller scale, a Sage wiki extension could
>> go well beyond the usual but static equations and plots.
>> Implementation, alas, is still well beyond me.
>
>
> What do you mean by a Sage wiki extension? What about the wiki
> extensions that are used on the axiom wiki? Currently they let you use
> Axiom, Fricas, Maxima, OpenAxiom, Reduce, and Sage (and also gnuplot,
> apparently).
>
> I have a wiki extension I wrote for dokuwiki that can call an outside
> program, feed it text, and get the result. I use it to draw pictures,
> but you could use it also with Sage, if you wanted (and if you trusted
> the users). You can see examples here:
>
> http://orion.math.iastate.edu/grout/software/dokuwiki/format-plugin
>
> Jason
Sorry, I should have been explicit. I'm referring to the dynamic
features of the notebook interface, including interactive plots, check
boxes, sliders, fields, etc., which entail client-server communication.
I was unable to find wiki extensions which enable these types of
objects, but I'm happy to be corrected.
Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the
privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of
server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say,
could include pertinent, pedagogical "gadgets" to illustrate concepts
which are difficult to convey in a static setting. (This sidesteps the
issue of whether Wikipedia would or should ever allow these objects.)
Perhaps, much of the work could be delegated to code that compiles and
runs in the ever-more-capable browser.
Sincerely,
Pat LeSmithe
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