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I guess this is as good a page as any to discuss the general Dispersive Wiki project, at least for now.  You can sign your name and timestamp by writing three or four tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> at the end of your message, and use : at the start of a message to indent.  Use == (title) == to start a new topic.  You can "watch" this page by clicking on the tab at the top so that you can be notified whenver there is some new discussion here. [[User:Tao|Terry]] 01:22, 27 July 2006 (EDT)
This is the portal for discussing the general Dispersive Wiki project and for making announcements.  You can sign your name and timestamp by writing three or four tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> at the end of your message, and use : at the start of a message to indent.  Use == (title) == to start a new topic.   


: For instance, here is an example of indenting. [[User:Tao|Terry]] 01:22, 27 July 2006 (EDT)
Older discussion [[DispersiveWiki:Community Portal/Archive|has been archived here]].


== Chopping up into smaller articles ==
Would you like to help out? Suggested projects are posted on our [[Current events| current projects]] page.


I think we should split the big pages into smaller ones, to take more advantage of hyperlinking.  At some point I'll also try to set up categories as is done in Wikipedia (which should presumably be our model for most things here.  I've set up a rudimentary example of what I mean by this at the [[Other equations]] page, though many pages are still broken or not cleaned up at all.  [[User:Tao|Terry]] 01:22, 27 July 2006 (EDT)
== Connections to other Wikis ==


== Bibliography ==


What shall we do with the bibliography?  It is hard to edit and hard to link to. I am thinking of moving the references to the page in which they are cited, instead of collecting them in one enormous file. This may cause a reference to be cited in more than one place, possibly with slightly different bibliographic data, but this should not be a problem.  On the plus side, it makes it easier to find relevant references, and it should be relatively easy for a new user to update a reference or add a new one.  [[User:Tao|Terry]] 01:22, 27 July 2006 (EDT)
There is a [http://www.wikiindex.com/Category:Math list of Math Wiki's] on Wikipedia.
See for example the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Partial_differential_equations collection] of PDE related pages on wikipedia. For basic concepts in PDE, perhaps we should further develop
those pages. For more specialized resources like a bibliography, it may be better to use this space.  [[User:Colliand|Colliand]] 11:28, 15 September 2006 (EDT)


Another possibility is to put each article on its own page. This could allow direct linking to the article and leave space for annotations and remarks on the article. One could also include links to mathscinet and arxiv. [[User:Colliand|Colliand]] 16:55, 28 July 2006 (EDT)
== Notation ==
 
This wiki looks like a great resource for people like me who don't deal with PDE's full time, but need help every once in a while. One request: could someone compile a page discussing the notation?  As a physicist, I hardly ever see (for example) Δ used to denote the Laplacian; usually, it's ∇<sup>2</sup>.  Without a central notation page, it's hard to decipher some of the equations. And does y<sub>x</sub> mean the partial derivative of y with respect to x?  Thanks. [[User:JessRiedel|JessRiedel]] 10:32, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 01:31, 16 April 2010

This is the portal for discussing the general Dispersive Wiki project and for making announcements. You can sign your name and timestamp by writing three or four tildes ~~~ at the end of your message, and use : at the start of a message to indent. Use == (title) == to start a new topic.

Older discussion has been archived here.

Would you like to help out? Suggested projects are posted on our current projects page.

Connections to other Wikis

There is a list of Math Wiki's on Wikipedia. See for example the collection of PDE related pages on wikipedia. For basic concepts in PDE, perhaps we should further develop those pages. For more specialized resources like a bibliography, it may be better to use this space. Colliand 11:28, 15 September 2006 (EDT)

Notation

This wiki looks like a great resource for people like me who don't deal with PDE's full time, but need help every once in a while. One request: could someone compile a page discussing the notation? As a physicist, I hardly ever see (for example) Δ used to denote the Laplacian; usually, it's ∇2. Without a central notation page, it's hard to decipher some of the equations. And does yx mean the partial derivative of y with respect to x? Thanks. JessRiedel 10:32, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

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