Does the Historian badge verification work only for Questions posted since the Mapleprimes system upgrade?

Some Posts and Questions contain broken links to files uploaded in the "old Mapleprimes". We've heard that some files (eg. image files) may be irretrievably gone.

But here is a curious page. It had an associated .mw worksheet uploaded. And the link to the uploaded .mw is now broken/stale, at the moment that I write this. But the link to view it with the maplenet viewer, in one's browser, still works. Not only that, but the .mw worksheet can be saved from within that viewer (via a URL distinct from the broken link on the Post).

A recent announcement: ViennaCL, an OpenCL (GPU) based linear algebra library.

It would be interesting to see how it might be used from within Maple via external_calling (even if only for some simple examples).

The thumbs-up may turn out to be an ok mechanism by which this community can recognize good quality posts and responses. But most posts are only likely to get rated thusly by a handful of members willing to do the few extra clicks. I wonder whether there might be other good ways to get approval ratings, either automatically or semi-automatically.

One possibility that occurs to me is citation. The buttons/icons on the Editor menubar already have a Link item (the chain link, for inserting URLs). How about a similar button for adding a citation? The idea being that such a Citation would always be positive, and bring about an additional automatic thumbs-up (maybe allowing more than one-per-member for that particular recipient post). A negative or neutral cite could still be made with the existing Link button.

I'm going to guess that, if all the previous links to Joe Riel's Sorting with Attributes post were such citations, that it would already have more than the number of approvals for the great post class.

If you're interested in scientific fonts, the 1.0 version release of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) fonts was announced today (May 28, 2010).

See here for its main page, or here for wikipedia's point of view.