Talk:Overleaf

Use at CERN

This article claims that "In 2017, CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform." It cites an article that claims the same, but the article itself doesn't provide many details. On the other hand I work at CERN and I haven't seen any evidence that it is "preferred": I see far more google docs and latex documents in gitlab than overleaf. Moosesheppy (talk) 23:38, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

@Moosesheppy: Wikipedia has to go by the external sources. I've copyedited that sentence from a quote to a summary. It's also could be rather out-of-date. Given that Overleaf-the-proprietary-version hosted by Overleaf-the-organisation does not provide all the web-interface edits in the git history of a given repository, I wouldn't be surprised by what you say - that many CERN people use a gitlab instance or an instance of any other git repository hosting instance, such as a forgejo instance that aims towards git hosting federation. CERN could easily host an AGPL Overleaf instance itself. Chances are that many CERN people don't know that Overleaf has an AGPLv3 version: it's the common situation of an organisation (Overleaf-the-organisation) benefiting from the Commons while effectively implementing vendor lock-in.

Overall, this article is a bit on the {{advertising}} side, but as long as nobody tries to block editing and there are no difficult-to-solve disputes here on the talk page, there's not much point adding a tag. Edit rather than complain. :)

There does exist the {{dubious}} warning when sources state something that is dubious, but I don't think it's relevant here. Boud (talk) 17:37, 17 April 2025 (UTC)