User talk:SPat
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Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally. Webaware talk 06:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Topology/Bases
G'day, please check now to see if I caught what you wanted. If not, can you be a little more specific? cheers, Webaware talk 07:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- G'day again, I've set those two lines as separate lines, still indented as part of the "problems" list now. With a list, normally you have each item as a paragraph, with sub-items indented further and optionally numbered or bulleted. For your requirements, you need to add a little HTML to break the lines without either starting another list item or starting a new paragraph (external to the list). The HTML for a line break is: <br/>. cheers, Webaware talk 08:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Math Bookshelf
Don't worry about the late reply, we aren't on a timeline here! If you go to the page Subject:Mathematics, You will see a list of math books, a list of sub-topics, etc. If you notice, the list of books here is very large, but the number of sub-topics is very small. I think that we can create several sub-pages under mathematics for things like "calculus", "algebra", "geometry", "topology", etc. If you give me a list of all the sub-pages you want to see, I can make them for you. I hope this helps. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 16:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
- The difference between bookshelves and subject pages, at least the two major differences, are the location of the pages themselves and the method in which the pages are kept up-to-date. A bookshelf is a manually-edited list, while subject pages are typically dynamically updated based on categories. I would think that the method of topic/subtopic would be more familar to Windows users, following an obvious folder/subfolder scheme. However, there are more then one way to do it, and I want to point out now that you don't need to follow the pattern that other pages use. You can easily add all the algebra books under an "Algebra" subheading, instead of in a subtopic. Using the {{CategoryList}} template, this becomes particularly easy to do. And the benefit is, of course, that once you create the subject page as you think it should be, the lists will update automatically when new books are added to the appropriate categories.
- Either way, the next step is clear: We need to figure out what sub-categories to have, and which of our existing books belong in which categories. Here is one possible scheme, based on the current mathematics bookshelf layout:
- Basic Math ("Arithmetic"?)
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Discrete Math
- Calculus and Trigonometry
- Statistics and Probability
- Analysis
- Topology
- Number Theory
- Applied Mathematics
- I'm sure this list needs some modifications. I put calculus and trig together because I don't feel like we are going to have too many trig books and a 1-book section is probably not great. Actually, when I learned trig in highschool it was part of an Algebra course. Let me know what you think of all this. Once we have a plan for organizing, we can work out the details on presentation (and there are a lot of options and possible details to play with!) --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:43, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Breaking books up by reading level is easy, we could use the {{Reading level}} template to mark books according to their level of material. This could easily be done in addition to breaking books up by subject, and then we can take the intersection of different categories and reading levels to produce lists of age-appropriate books on different levels. I have my doubts that breaking up by level is going to be sufficient, I would also like to explore a subtopic-based organization scheme too. Luckily for us, we can easily have both schemes operating in parallel. My internet access is limited until sunday night or monday, so I can start laying some groundwork on it then. After that, it's a matter of tweaking details to suit our particular needs. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
