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analyze if NOTA has things which benefit wikitext
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sometimes wikitext contain formulas, which are hard to understand. will crichton from stanford university makes a suggestion how to use a web browsers interactive features to better explain such constructs: https://willcrichton.net/nota. if wikipedia would display formulas, and programming language constructs that way - would be cool.

crichtons way of thinking sounds interesting for at least some of wikipedia projects, like wikisource. the link contains one striking sentence:

"We believed that many valuable scientific contributions — such as explanations, interactive articles, and visualizations — were held back by not being seen as “real scientific publications.” Our theory was that if a journal were to publish such artifacts, it would allow authors to benefit from the traditional academic incentive system and enable more of this kind of work. After four years, we no longer believe this theory of impact. [...] Instead, we believe the primary bottleneck is the amount of effort it takes to produce these articles and the unusual combination of scientific and design expertise required."

there seems to be a gap which wikipedia since long: how to make stuff accessible. so the wikipeida-verse has persons which have such an unusual combination of scientific and design expertise? if this is true - i'd find it very cool if somebody has a look and gives its opinion,