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arXiv:2412.20419math.HO

Princ-wiki-a Mathematica: Wikipedia editing and mathematics

David Eppstein, Joel Brewster Lewis, Russ Woodroofe, XOR'easter

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Abstract

Over the past 20 years, Wikipedia has gone from a rather outlandish idea to a major reference work, with more than 60 million articles across all languages, including nearly 7 million in English [Wiki01]. Around 27,000 of these articles concern mathematics [b], and Wikipedia is the first place that many of us go to learn about a new mathematical idea. In this overview, we will discuss how to go about creating or editing an article on a mathematical subject. (Most of this applies equally to topics from other technical fields.) We will also discuss biographies of mathematicians, articles on mathematical books, and the social dynamics of the Wikipedia editor community.

arXiv comments
9 pages, 3 figures. We overview some aspects of Wikipedia editing for mathematicians. Includes pseudonymous XOR'easter as an author, as they should be (difference from published version)
Journal reference
Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (2025), no. 1, 65-73
DOI
doi:10.1090/noti3096
Subjects
math.HOHistory and Overview

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