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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Yaris678 (talk | contribs) at 17:07, 14 July 2010 (→Categorising what we are doing here). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Work in progress

I added a point: Wikipedia is a work in progress. I think some of the comments from new readers show they don't realize that most our articles are still under development. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:45, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other sites

What to include? I thought the Springer Encyclopedia, MathWorld, PlanetMath at least. I participate in MathOverflow, but it is right at the top end of the scale of our readers. Is there a good resource for those with no more than school mathematics? I suspect we have a real problem with access when it comes to readers with no college mathematics at all. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These are all reference works. Maybe we should mention them... but the thrust of what we are saying is that sometimes textbooks are more useful. Are there any good, online, general mathematics textbooks? Yaris678 (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Categorising what we are doing here

Are we writing an essay? Can we stick it in a category such as Category:How-to essays or Category:Wikipedia essays giving advice. Yaris678 (talk) 16:43, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Essay" is loosely defined, I believe. Category:Wikipedia essays giving advice would probably be fine. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. I have added that category and the {{essay}} tag. Yaris678 (talk) 17:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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