I love the nLab too, but I'm not sure that "merging" is the right word; probably the two are serving slightly different purposes. The overall nLab is not really organized like a textbook or designed to be read linearly; writing a textbook requires additional thought. But there is certainly no reason why the two can't share material and link to each other as appropriate. And/or one could choose to write a textbook as a section of the nLab rather than on Wikibooks (if, for instance, one preferred its offerings in the way of mathematical typesetting). Mike On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Urs Schreiber<urs.schreiber@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Charles Wells<charles@abstractmath.org> wrote:
The Category Theory book on Wikibooks<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category_Theory>has been languishing for three years, except for some good work done by Physis <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Physis>. I have spent the last two days reorganizing it and cleaning it up.
It might be worthwhile merging this effort with that at the nLab wiki. It seems to me that this has by now entries on most or all of the planned entries at the wikibook -- and more. Maybe one should transfer material as needed.
To get an impression for the entries that do and those that do not yet exist on the nLab see the link lists at
[[category theory]] http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/category+theory
[[Categories and Sheaves]] http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Categories+and+Sheaves
[[Sheaves in Geometry and Logic]] http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Sheaves+in+Geometry+and+Logic
There is more, not indexed yet. On the other hand, of course all this is incomplete and still in the making, too.
Please feel free and feel encouraged to add to the nLab.
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