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I created this page this weekend as one small thing I could do to help the math world and academia in general with this problem. Would anyone be willing to hel

I created this page this weekend as one small thing I could do to help the math world and academia in general with this problem. Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page? It's become popular more quickly than I expected, and I would appreciate the help. I've temporarily added my email address to my hacker news profile, so anyone can contact me. Thank you!

mcburton 15y ago
You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.
- tylerneylon 15y ago
  Agreed, it's in the works. I'm balancing this with my startup.
  - scott_s 15y ago
    You can link to Knuth's letter to the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms from 2003: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf Linking to the recent NY Times and blog posts from well-known researchers would help as well.
masklinn 15y ago
> Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page? Reversing the list (last-on-top) and putting the "More names belong here" text above the fold might be a good idea. And if you know somebody who can draw icons, getting an icon for each "refrainment" might look nice (might also look worse, but good icons in the CC style could spread in the community and be used e.g. on researcher's blogs). Otherwise, I like it. It's clear, simple and to the point. Also, I think you should default the subject to empty and mandate it, you seem to have a lot of mathematicians (though it could be because it spread there first). And you should check your form's encoding, there's mojibake at the end of the list, "UniversitÃ©" instead of "Université".
- vijayr 15y ago
  Also consider grouping by university, subject etc, and adding a search box (search by university, person's name)
impendia 15y ago
You got two Fields medalists there. And counting. :)

mcburton 15y ago

You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.

tylerneylon 15y ago
Agreed, it's in the works. I'm balancing this with my startup.
- scott_s 15y ago
  You can link to Knuth's letter to the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms from 2003: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf Linking to the recent NY Times and blog posts from well-known researchers would help as well.

masklinn 15y ago

> Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page? Reversing the list (last-on-top) and putting the "More names belong here" text above the fold might be a good idea. And if you know somebody who can draw icons, getting an icon for each "refrainment" might look nice (might also look worse, but good icons in the CC style could spread in the community and be used e.g. on researcher's blogs). Otherwise, I like it. It's clear, simple and to the point. Also, I think you should default the subject to empty and mandate it, you seem to have a lot of mathematicians (though it could be because it spread there first). And you should check your form's encoding, there's mojibake at the end of the list, "UniversitÃ©" instead of "Université".

vijayr 15y ago
Also consider grouping by university, subject etc, and adding a search box (search by university, person's name)

impendia 15y ago

You got two Fields medalists there. And counting. :)