crypto wiki -- good idea, bad idea?
Jason Holt
jason at lunkwill.org
Tue Dec 13 02:41:18 EST 2005
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> Or should we just stick to wikipedia? Is it doing a satisfactory job?
Also check out the Cryptography Reader:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiReader/Cryptography
"Matt Crypto" set up an "article (to clean up) of the day" replete with a bar
graph of how "done" he thinks it is.
As to accuracy, there are several authors I respect who keep many of the
crypto articles on their watchlists, so that we notice when people make
changes.
I'm quite happy with a number of the pages in the reader, enough that I point
my students to them and use the figures in my lecture slides. I like the
intersecting planes in the "secret sharing" article particularly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing
> of work. I proposed a few weeks ago (in the meta-discussion) to do it, but
> was concerned that doing so would step on toes and seem invasive. No one has
> responded to that, not even the people who flagged the article as needing
> work.
An old wikipedia saying is "be bold in updating pages":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BBIUP
-J
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