User:Orcmid

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Dennis E. Hamilton
4401 44th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116
mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org

[edit] Self Introduction

Well, it is not like me to leave a page empty, so for now I should just say that there is more about Orcmid's interests at nfoCentrale, and a place where there may be more some day on Orcmid's Lair.

My interest in being here is related to the treatment of algorithms, heuristics, and computation theory (including the Church-Turing Thesis). I am also interested in Wikipedia as an example of collaborative authoring of reference material, something I like about Wikis. I notice that I already like the way this Wiki supports editing.

[edit] Surveying the Territory

Thanks to Walt Pohl's page, I have some more resources to apply to the editing of mathematical texts. These also point out a number of topics to address in my own treatment of WikiText and Wiki functionality for nfoWiki, an nfoWare project.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, especially the sections on Issues to think about and Motivation

• Wikipedia:TeX markup and the Meta-Wikimedia on Editing Formulae

• Table of mathematical symbols for guidance on consistent choices

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page -- with important links on style, etiquette, and discussion (and these links demonstrate why "|" is used to add titles to non-CamelCase Wiki topics).

• List of mathematical topics

• List of mathematical logic topics

• List of computability and complexity topics

• Wikipedia:Classifications of mathematics topics, the AMS MSC2000 classification

• Wikipedia Talk:Naming conventions (theorems), a topic that I shall avoid like the measles, though I think the business about title capitalization is a generational one and not cultural: I thought that all of that lower-casing in titles and names was from Europe!

--Orcmid 21:04, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)