DispersiveWiki:Community Portal
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Linking to math reviews
Andrew Comech has written a tool called bibget. It does some neat things, e.g. UNIXPROMPT> bibget -r MR2121437 instantly retrieves the relevant math reviews reference in bibtex format. Colliand 00:07, 31 July 2006 (EDT)
- Do we want to put references as [[Au2006a]] or [[Bibliography:Au2006a]]? Using the one page per reference section has the major advantage of allowing us to use the "what links here" link to hunt down all old links when a preprint is published, so I'm convinced this is the right way to go. Pblue 11:32, 31 July 2006 (EDT)
- I think by fiat we are now using the former, as it is easier to type and looks nicer too. Presumably the Bibliography category will let us organise these pages easily even in the former case. Terry 23:59, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
I corresponded with AMS about linking to mathscinet from our bibliography pages. They directed me to the web page http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/getitem.html . So, for published papers in our bibliography we are free to link to mathscinet. For example, see http://tosio.math.toronto.edu/wiki/index.php/Bo1999b Colliand 12:31, 2 August 2006 (EDT)
- Some reference pages, such as LiPo1993, have partial mathscinet links [1]. The string id at the end should be replaced by the associated math review number MR1249105. Is there an automated way to get these inserted into all the pages? Colliand 00:10, 3 August 2006 (EDT)
Categories
I've started putting in some categories into the Wiki; they provide a convenient way to dynamically index all pages associated to a single topic, and can themselves contain content of their own. Any page can have as many categories as it wants, so please feel free to design your own categories as you please. In the worst case they can always be merged or otherwise cleaned up. Terry 00:24, 29 July 2006 (EDT)
Redirects
Another useful Wiki feature is redirects. If a page contains nothing but the line
- #REDIRECT [[some-other-page]]
then it will automatically redirect to some-other-page. This is useful for merging two otherwise redundant pages, or dealing with a concept that has many spellings or variant names, or with two topics which for some reason are being treated on a single page for now. Terry 00:24, 29 July 2006 (EDT)
Open for business?
The wiki is developing nicely. Not only is the conversion of the existing text reaching a point where the pages look nice (and invitingly easy to edit), the wiki format is also now suggesting some natural additions beyond the original brief of listing local and global wellposedness results for various equations. I particularly like the developing concepts category, making this wiki more encyclopediac (Dispersopedia, anyone?). Anyway, maybe we can start inviting some more people in on the project. Next week when I return to UCLA I think I will advertise it on my own web page. Terry 03:00, 31 July 2006 (EDT)
