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Capitalization

Hi again,

I detect y'all accept been united nations-capitalizing many pages' titles. I think, though, that the precedent is to capitalize the titles of articles almost specific theorems (meet hither). This is different from Wikipedia's convention, but there you are.

Cheers, Boy Soprano 2 00:00, 16 December 2007 (EST)

See A:Name for my opinion. Temperal ^xy xiii:08, xvi December 2007 (EST)

You're certainly welcome to your stance, but this was decided in the thread that Boy Soprano links to. (I don't care much either way, but if the point of a wiki is to reach a consensus of some type ...) --JBL eleven:53, 17 Dec 2007 (EST)

I viewed the thread, and it seems that theorems would be capitalized, which is explicitly what that page says. It was extremely vague otherwise. Temperal ^xy 17:04, 17 Dec 2007 (EST)

Did you go to the 2nd page of the word? In the last post on that thread, MCrawford wrote:

JBL wrote:  Does the AoPS wiki have "inequalities" or "Inequalities"?  Right at present there seem to be a lot of both -- consider the list here, for example.

I just changed a few. A specific inequality such every bit the Ability Hateful Inequality is considered a proper name. However, trigonometric inequalities is descriptive of a set of nouns, though the nouns themselves may be proper in some cases. "

I tend to hold (although frankly I don't care very much): if a given theorem is a Theorem, why wouldn't a particular inequality be an Inequality? JBL 20:05, 17 December 2007 (EST)

Aha. Sorry for not noticing the second folio. I'll help movement the pages back. Temperal ^xy 17:45, 18 December 2007 (EST)

Pages to start off with

Office actually needs work. It's about 1/3rd written, and about i/tertiary of that is properly latexed. --solafidefarms 16:46, 22 June 2006 (EDT) Function is i call up looks latexed--Anirudh 19:54, 30 December 2006 (EST)

Expect at Special:Wantedpages to notice interesting pages to work on. Or look at the list of stubs (visit the page Category:Stubs) to detect pages in need of more content. Or, await at the listing of Special:Newpages and look for the pages I've created, since most of them are just 2 sentences long. --JBL 11:07, 12 July 2006 (EDT)

Suggestion - mayhap add PDF'due south of contests

Maybe we should add pdfs of the contests so people can download and print them?--Anirudh 22:00, 31 December 2006 (EST)

But add them as TeX which can exist rendered as a printable paradigm. Acrobat is slow. AMC37.5 01:32, 24 February 2007 (EST)

I also thought this would be a good idea, but I found out today that the AIME is a copyrighted test: read this. Minsoens 21:03, ten March 2007 (EST)

Calculation AMC Issues and Solutions!

you should let awupu hve images besides. --Anirudh 20:04, 27 November 2006 (EST) awupu2: the AoPSWiki Unofficial Trouble Uploader was just updated, and now automatically links to other wiki articles for you! See awupu. --Chess64 22:39, 5 November 2006 (EST)

Please encounter the AoPSWiki Problem Uploader, which can help yous save a lot of time when you are uploading MO problems. --Chess64 20:27, 28 July 2006 (EDT)

Every member can contribute to this no thing what kind of math noesis they have. This is also very important to the amount of data on the Wiki. Please go to the Contests Folio and copy problems from the competitions to the pages they are missing from. (see beneath) If you have more time, please add together a solution to the pages that are missing solutions. (also run into below)

2006
- Missing Problems
  - 2001 AMC 10 Problems 1-25
  - ~~2006 AMC 10B Problems i-25~~
  - ~~2006 AMC 12A Problems 1-25~~
  - 2006 AMC 12B Problems 9-25
  - 2006 USAMO Problems i-half-dozen
  - 2006 USA TST Bug 1-6
- Missing Solutions
  - 2006 AMC 10A Solutions 7-25
  - ~~2006 AMC 10B Solutions 1-25~~
  - 2006 AMC 12A Solutions i-25
  - 2006 AMC 12B Solutions i-25
  - 2006 AIME I Solutions iv, 7-xi, xiii-15
  - 2006 AIME II Solutions 1-fifteen
  - 2006 USAMO Solutions 1-vi
  - 2006 USA TST Solutions i-6

Thank you! Ignite168 20:06, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

Just adding a notation to please strike out something by using <southward> to start the strike out and </s> to end it when it is completed like so ~~example~~. Also, y'all can work on 2005, 2004, 2003, etc. but I but put 2006 here to start with. Oh and to joml88: Thanks for all your work on issues in past years so far. Ignite168 01:25, 9 July 2006 (EDT)

Discover Articles nigh AoPS Members

Please assist find articles most Fine art of Problem Solving Members and place Template:AoPSMember on the talk folio of that article. Before you use this template though, please offset read the usage instructions here. Ignite168 00:36, ane July 2006 (EDT)

Convention for naming articles

It's important that we set up this standard at present, otherwise, in that location's going to be a lot of cleaning upwardly to practice, non simply in terms of admins moving pages, but also in terms of cleaning up links to those articles. Delight run into the stick post in the AoPSWiki forum nigh this! Chime in with your opinion. Encounter this forum mail for details.

Allow's starting time an article at AoPSWiki:Naming conventions to set a guideline for naming. Azjps (talk) 21:47, four March 2007 (EST)

2006 Canadian MO

Hi in that location people, simply nosotros really need some solutions for the 2006_Canadian_MO.--Anirudh 12:16, half-dozen February 2007 (EST)

Unfortunately, that's not the simply contest we need to write solutions for: most $\lim_{x \to 0+} (100 - x)\%$ of the problem articles on this wiki need solutions :(wow, I guess I am a pessimist). On a slightly irrelevant note, I think (for organizational purposes) that it would exist ameliorate to start adding new posts to the bottom. It'southward nigh impossible to trace a answer similar "I agree" in such a long word. Azjps 19:38, 7 Feb 2007 (EST)

categories Olympiad Trigonometry Bug and Olympiad Complex Numbers problems be eliminated

I concur. --Chess64 16:24, 24 December 2006 (EST)

I propose that the categories Olympiad Trigonometry Problems and Olympiad Complex Numbers bug be eliminated, for the following reasons :

They are indistinguishable for olympiad bug.
All of them tin be classified as either algebra or geometry problems.
The IMO uses merely the other four categories for olympiad problems currently in existance.

Does anybody concord or disagree? I also mentioned this on the discussion page for Competition Issues Standards. —Boy Soprano Ii 17:21, 25 Baronial 2006 (EDT)

Math on the page is horribly garbled

Does anyone hither get this problem? What happens is that on some pages (notably those with centered math), the math on the folio is horribly garbled. Come across Talk:Fallacious proof for a picture. I employ IE6, Windows XP. --IntrepidMath 15:38, four August 2006 (EDT)

I'm getting the same verbal trouble. The math simply causes it indirectly though. Information technology's for images in full general (like on Power of a point); longer and more complicated math latex is automatically converted to a .png image, and appears farther down on the screen then it should exist. Azjps (talk) 14:08, three March 2007 (EST)
- Really, I retrieve I may have found a possible source for the problem. The main css file defines the form eye as

.center { 	width: 100%; 	text-align: center; } *.center * { 	margin-left: motorcar; 	margin-right: auto; }

The center class is then attributed to a div tag around the img. ~~Just randomly guessing, it seems as if the images are bumped downwardly the length of the toolbar on the correct side~~ - the weird affair is that simply images are bumped downwards but regular HTML text isn't. (Edit: No, information technology doesn't have to do with the toolbar. I use XP, IE 6 besides.) Azjps (talk) twenty:03, 8 March 2007 (EST)

Ii $a$ s should appear together:

$a$ a

Just found a way to go around it: use <div style="text-align:middle"></div>. Apparently width:100% is messing it up. Azjps (talk) 17:49, eleven March 2007 (EDT)

Miscellaneous

Sean, y'all can apply <pre> ... </pre> to brand the box:

          Testing to make sure.

--Joe 09:43, 1 August 2006 (EDT)

If you're typing an olympiad problem (or indeed, any trouble for which you lot retrieve alternate solutions could be enlightening), you can apply the {{alternate solutions}} template I made. It currently prints the text right after this bulletin. Sean, I'chiliad not sure, but you may find your answer here. --Boy Soprano II xix:55, 25 July 2006 (EDT) Alternate solutions are always welcome. If yous have a different, elegant solution to this problem, please add information technology to this page.

To answer my own question, see templates & categories. Now I accept a new question: how practise you box something in AoPSWiki? I take a long code that needs to exist in a box, because the article would expect much cleaner. Thank you! --Sean 13:32, 27 June 2006 (EDT)

How do you create a template? Is this something only admins can do? --Sean 23:57, 23 June 2006 (EDT)

OK, for definitions,should there exist a category or a template or nothing?--solafidefarms 22:26, 23 June 2006 (EDT)

you tin can add together any problems you desire, just give credit to the source. like

(The Art and Craft of Problem Solving) Problem text hither.

Solution

--Chess64 ten:28, 22 June 2006 (EDT)

are we allowed to add together problems from problem books to the wiki? I notice people are adding AIME problems, whose books can we add problems from? I don't mean the whole thing or anything, but i or ii problems at a time. --Agolsme 17:09, 21 June 2006 (EDT)

Err, my bad. That was a typo... at present I have to gear up it in the article too... --Chess64 10:xv, 19 June 2006 (EDT)

@alvaro I linked upwardly the general topics area, ok?

where are the pages of the general topics? must we create them? --alvaro 11:25, eighteen June 2006 (EDT)

Yes, the formula is now correct. Joe changed it. It was off a bit before. --Mysmartmouth 19:02, 18 June 2006 (EDT)

I similar it, PenguinIntegral. Mysmartmouth, the formula is definitely right. --Chess64 18:20, eighteen June 2006 (EDT)

I added some structure to this page. Feel free to comment. --PenguinIntegral xviii:08, xviii June 2006 (EDT)

Millenium bug would be a skilful topic; people are always request almost those problems. Besides, can someone accept a look at Vieta's formulas? I call up the formula given is wrong. --Mysmartmouth 14:32, xviii June 2006 (EDT)

I just want to make a notation that there is a improve way to create a signature. If you expect at the Wiki toolbar above, yous encounter the second button from the correct. It looks similar a signature. But hit that button at the end of your comment, and a signature, with timestamp, will exist added. That is the widely accepted manner to sign comments on Wikipedia, and information technology would be nice to have some kind of standard here besides. Just a suggestion. --Mysmartmouth xi:09, 18 June 2006 (EDT)

I added a lot of info to the MathCounts page in my bid to become a moderator... --Treething 15:57, 18 June 2006 (EDT)

The Inequalities need skeleton pages set. Tin someone assist my math parsing on the Ability mean inequality? Information technology is really messing upwards.

          -PenguinIntegral

The Polynomials folio needs a skeleton besides...

          -chess64

What does everyone recall of me using AIME problems to illistrate mathematical concepts like completing the square?

See Completing the square

Hey, I'm not certain exactly how to format this page...but I edited the completing the square folio somewhat (btw in that location are some Latex problems that someone (non me) needs to fix), anyone else have feedback?

I like your idea of using sample problems, only I don't really sympathize what the sample problem yous placed in the Completing the square page has to do with the topic...

          -eryaman

Yeah, information technology probably would accept been squeamish if I explained how the solution uses adding/subtracting to cistron, of which completing the square is a special case.

Someone smart should fix that.

Does anyone accept ideas for new topics? I think nosotros should split up the wiki like the USAMO problem subjects: Combo and Probability, Algebra and Polynomials, Functions, Inequalities, Geometry, and Number Theory. I think Adeel volition basically write upwardly the entire Algebra and NT sections in 5 nanoseconds, because he so good at information technology, so I'll look into starting a page on counting strategies.

E'er use example problems; they really reinforce the textile and prepare the reader for using them in a contest setting.

(Ok, I just made that up. But it feels good to start a fad)

          -PenguinIntegral

"I think Adeel will basically write up the entire Algebra and NT sections in 5 nanoseconds, because he then good at it..." uh actually no i'm not only i guess i'll work on it

          -chess64

Idea: Should the Wiki plow into an "example emporium"? We should wait for an Admin'southward go-ahead before starting... As well-Should nosotros link to the Needed Pages on the home page?

          -IntrepidMath

Insanity is merely exceptable inside reason. We shouldn't put problems on every page, but equally the AoPS books show, examples actually assist learning.

          -PenguinIntegral

I'll start some Combinatorics pages/links, simply how do you start a page?

          -quantum bound

search for the proper name of the article that you want to write [-chess64]

uh guys this is the "community portal" and so i think these discussions should be in the "discussion" folio of this (see the bluish button at the summit) and this page should be used for things like links to needed pages... should i go ahead and ready this?

-chess64

Um, there are ii cauchy-schwarz inequality pages (depending on whether or non the "southward" in schwarz is capitalized) :/ I approximate they should be combined... -breakthrough leap

monobook.js

Would it be possible for an ambassador to somehow actuate the usage of the personal javascript file - Special:Mypage/monobook.js? It would certainly help to expedite the procedure of building this wiki. Azjps xix:43, half dozen Feb 2007 (EST)

I remember a Firefox and IE issues recently where I could deviously steal your AoPS password. Thus I retrieve that'south a bad idea. --solafidefarms fifteen:38, fifteen February 2007 (EST)

Oh, never mind then. I certainly wasn't aware of that. Thank you, Azjps (talk) 16:32, fifteen Feb 2007 (EST)

What near the monobook.css? I can't imagine any loopholes that can be caused by CSS (past the fashion, does the "stealing" the password involve inputting code into someone else's monobook.js, or past adding some lawmaking into your own? If the erstwhile, then we could place protection upon everybody'southward monobook.js). Azjps (talk) 18:16, 12 March 2007 (EDT)

Dollar signs

How practise you signal $15000 without the wiki doing latex?$ \$$ (Error compiling LaTeX. ! Missing $ inserted.) doesn't work. --solafidefarms 10:02, 30 August 2006 (EDT) We need a lot more than amc 10s--Anirudh 19:47, 31 Dec 2006 (EST)

Try using the nowiki tags:$ formatting.--IntrepidMath 10:49, xxx Baronial 2006 (EDT)

Cheers!--solafidefarms 17:33, thirty Baronial 2006 (EDT)

Serious bug in login

When I logged into AOPS Wiki a 2nd fourth dimension, I typed my username in lowercase, and it logged in as a new user. AMC37.5 19:46, 24 February 2007 (EST)

Random Page

Is at that place a mode to become the random page to exclude issues? --IntrepidMath 19:36, 2 April 2007 (EDT)

Brusque respond: Nope (at least not w/ current wiki capabilities). I suppose some of the admins may exist able to remedy this, but I find information technology occasionally useful to include problem manufactures in the random page.

At that place are a couple of means I can recollect of to become around information technology:

I'm positive there'south a way to do this with JavaScript. As well bad monobook.js can't exist used. :(
Special:Allpages contains every page in the wiki. Take all of the links there, remove all those containing the keyword 'Trouble' (or maybe all those that start west/ numbers), and then from there randomly pick a folio.
An unreliable method: Most non-stub mainspace articles are in Special:Uncategorizedpages; however, well-nigh trouble articles have categories. Then randomly pick. Bug: many template problem articles aren't categorized, and this ignores stub + categorized mainspace articles.

Of form, there's always keep on clicking the 'random page' link until a not-problem article appears ;). Azjps _(talk) 11:04, four Apr 2007 (EDT)

Stubs

Why in the world was set a stub? Information technology's just about the longest article on the wiki? Stub management seriously needs to be improved. Temperal ^xy eighteen:50, 15 Oct 2007 (EDT)

Up above...

Up above somewhere, there is a scarlet link to Needed Pages. Is it OK if I change the link to Special:Wantedpages?--1=2 twenty:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

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