Talk:PlanetMath

message: The PlanetMath articles are almost but not quite formatted right to be imported directly into Wikipedia: they easily can be adapted with a bit of hand-editing of their TeX source into wiki-markup.
This could be an ideal case for someone who wants to write a bot to:
* screen-scrape the TeX source of a PlanetMath article
* check that it does not appear already in Wikipedia
* convert the source to Wikipedia markup, with an attribution to the original author, a link to the PlanetMath article on the talk page, and a mention of the licence under the GFDL.
* post it to Wikipedia, with a suitable edit comment
* also put an attribution to the original author, and a link to the PlanetMath article on the talk page
I'd do it myself, but I'm busy.
-- The Anome 22:11, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/PlanetMath Exchange.  dbenbenn | talk 00:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  PlanetMath articles 

message: WikiProject Mathematics has a project devoted to combining PlanetMath and Wikipedia at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/PlanetMath Exchange. --Blackcap | talk 16:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Mathematics

message: Is the PlanetMath website down? I tried to access it two days ago, the Windows flag waved in the air for several minutes before giving up. Today the same thing happened. Or did I just choose the two bad days to access it in the entire month? PrimeFan 20:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: they don't want to talk about it. see the message . as of today, their's still no response to that query! Numerao 21:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

text: akrowne was more forthcoming about the down time of 9/10. CompositeFan 19:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I just checked and it is working fine, Greets --kiddo 04:52, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Website down? (2006)

message: Did you all see the the PlanetMath entries about PlanetMath and Wikipedia added by our very own PrimeFan? They're at  and  respectively. In a very sweet touch, PrimeFan wrote new text for the Wikipedia entry, but for the PlanetMath entry he simply copied the Wikipedia entry about PlanetMath! Anton Mravcek 17:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  PM entries about PM, Wikipedia 

message: The PlanetMath website is down again. Yesterday, IE took me to Live Search results instead of the PM website when I typed the URL in the Address bar. Same thing today. FireFox is similarly unable to connect. Anton Mravcek (talk) 23:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website down again (February 2009) 

message: 15 April 2009: The PlanetMath website is down again;if you 'ping' the site it does not respond.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bci2 (talk • contribs) 
:It's up again now. --Zundark (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website down again (April 2009) 

message: :: There were no personal attacks-- neither personal nor 'attacks': "Ptrf" was merely an anonymous writer until the last signed statement above with a different, existing wikipedia user name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zundark , that is if the anonymous writer were indeed "Ptrf" appearing to be followed --meshed in the same message with-- Zundark ?, which is as yet to be verified ), different from the previously anonymous name of "Ptrf", as the records above show; moreover "Zundark" is not a PM registered user name, and neither is "Ptrf". On the other hand, "ptrf"--with a hiden mailing address-- has made only one correction at PM in February 2009, and has no other contributions todate since February 22, 2009.Bci2 (talk )
:::: There was no "accusation" of any kind being made, only a question for user Zundark if Zundark indeed posted on the PM discussion website on May 20, 2009, because "Ptrf" claimed his postings weren't anonymous and there was no user talk available on Wikipedia for "Ptrf"--at least I could not find it.The question was intended to clear up the confusion betwen their two meshed messages on May 20, 2009. Bci2 (talk)
:::::Ptrf's user talk page is at User talk:Ptrf (which is linked at the end of his/her comments, making it particularly easy to find). I note that you have modified the comment I was replying to above, removing the very part of it that I was referring to. I have accordingly removed my comment. --Zundark (talk) 15:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The :category: Unassessed mathematics articlein the attached hidden category to this discussion is inappropriate as this discussion has virtually nothing to do with mathemtaics--it has no mathematics in it. Nu 14:51, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: More of the same?

message: Planethmath.org is unavailable for a couple of days, perhaps a week.
From where can I get information about the reason, and the expected duration of the inactivity? Why don't they provide any information?
89.135.20.50 (talk) 07:17, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website down again (February 2012) 

message: I tried to access http://www.planetmath.org/ several times during last hour but failed - IExplorer could not display the page. 
DownForMe.org says PlanetMath.org is UP .
What's going on here? --CiaPan (talk) 18:38, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website down again - Dec 2012 

message: There's no reason to have an article for PlanetMath if it's constantly down and inactive. At the very least something needs to be mentioned in the article about how the website is not well-maintained. Cstanford.math (talk) 06:58, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with regard to having an article, after Wikipedia has a lot of article about "past thing". However I agree that  a possible "past state" should be mentioned in article. That is if the website indeed were to go offline more or less permanently, the article would need to mention that.--Kmhkmh (talk) 07:35, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website down - March 2014 

message: Template:PlanetMath has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
-- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 05:53, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination for deletion of Template:PlanetMath 

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replies: text: Checked. --CiaPan (talk) 11:23, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

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