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[edit] happy pi day
3-14 (March 14): Happy pi day, everyone. Or should I say, Happy π day! (Is this notable enough to temporarily stick on the Main Page ?) --DavidCary 21:57, 13 Mar 2006 (EST)
- This is good enough.. =) And it's Einstein's birthday!Larry 08:59, 14 Mar 2006 (EST)
[edit] Articles too?
Is the point just to write about the problem solutions?
Or will there be real articles about algorithms and problem-solving techniques?
- Yep, eventually - Larry 14:41, 28 Dec 2004 (EST)
- OK, cool. --DPlass
- You can insert your "Sig" by using ~~~~(I'm a newb in the syntax too!) Larry 14:52, 28 Dec 2004 (EST)
- But is the main focus on UVa problemsets, or the algorithms themselves? Aboyner 16:53, 3 Dec 2005 (EST)
- I'd say that if there is a problem that clearly calls for a given algorithm, you should write a specific page for the general algorithm, and then link to it from the problem. For example, when I wrote up UVa 10068, I first wrote up the Traveling Salesperson Problem article. So personally I like to think of it as algorithms as they relate to the problemsets. On the other hand, I'd like to see some beautiful algorithms written up here, so then maybe it will be inspiration for the creation of my own problemset. --Rrenaud 18:31, 3 Dec 2005 (EST)
algorithmist.com is still not even listed in google :(. I think everyone should make a link to it on their pages, to get the name out a bit. --Rrenaud 20:19, 6 Jan 2005 (EST)
- " I think everyone should make a link to it on their pages" - what pages?!--dplass 17:43, 8 Jan 2005 (EST)
- Personal homepages, livejournals, topcoder quotes, etc ;). Now algorithmist.com is the top google hit for algorithmist, but [Google Suggest] still doesn't suggest it.
There should be some consistency standard with regards to plurality. BigNum and String should probably be called BigNums and Strings like Logarithms, Permutations, and Primes.
Is there anyway to find out which users are new? There is no 'diff' page for the listusers page. It would be nice to find out how we are getting the new people here.
--Rrenaud 16:07, 17 Jan 2005 (EST)
You're right on the String, though initially, I meant "String Algorithms", such as the use of trie's and stuff, as opposed to trivial Strings, though I don't know. Probably need a "String Algorithms" sometime in the future, and probably need a good "Category" name.. Larry 17:34, 17 Jan 2005 (EST)
Is submitting excerpts from other sites on the Problem Solution pages allowed ? Or the content needs to be strictly original and only the link to the external site should be given ?
Maybe an excerpt can be added after some editing/modification ?
By external sites I am primarily interested in the TopCoder Forums. A lot of ACM and UVa problems have been discussed in those forums.
-- Shalinmangar
- Copyright laws maintain that the forum posts are either copyrighted by the owner and/or the forum owner, depending on the policy and the nature of the post. The safe way to do this is to obtain permission from both, or the owner itself post it. You can always just rewrite it. Larry 14:27, 2 Oct 2005 (EDT)
[edit] Custom Special Pages?
Is it possible to have special custom pages? For example, I think all of the following things would be nice.
Have the difficulty be emdedded in the problem, so that all difficulty 2 problems are searchable. Be able to search for say, difficulty 3 and graph theory. Eliminate the redundancies in the index pages, as of now, when you categorize a problem, you do it once in the writeup, and then again in the index. It seems to me that the index pages should be special, as all their editting is mechanical. Also, it would be nice to be able to hide or push to the bottom problems of the index problems which have empty descriptions. But I have no idea about the extensibility of MediaWiki, but I'd be happy to hack up some PHP. --Rrenaud 15:18, 19 Jan 2005 (EST)
I don't quite know how to do it, but if you're willing to hack up some PHP (and perhaps do some research on how to incorporate it easily), I would be more than happy to include it!
I'm likely to write a script either this weekend or next to at least template in the UVa/LA pages.. maybe there's a way to make "Problem Category" in addition to simply "Category", for the purpose of rewriting how it would but filtered/sorted/etc..
--Larry 12:08, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)
I've been talking on irc.freenode.net #mediawiki about the automatic problem index. There was some chat about metadata being included in future versions of MediaWiki, which would be really nice. However, I think that using categories might be a reasonable alternative (eg, Category:Difficulty1 to Difficulty10). Would you object to that?
--Rrenaud 22:30, 9 Aug 2005 (EDT)
That sounds okay (until metadata comes out.. that sounds like it would be exactly what we're looking for..) The autogenerated index would be nice too, though that can be done through a script (in theory)..
Larry 00:29, 10 Aug 2005 (EDT)
[edit] Problem Set Directed Graph
It would be cool to have links to other problems saying "Solve this problem first, it is similiar but easier". Then we could make a pretty (and hopefully useful) graph out of the data. --Rrenaud 23:02, 4 Aug 2005 (EDT)
Great idea! I wonder if there can be some sort of (hard) template. Wiki is too flexible, though I like most features of it. But certainly add that to thesubst:Problemtemplate! Larry 08:58, 5 Aug 2005 (EDT)
[edit] Intended Audience?
What exactly is the purpose of Algorithmist? Who are the people expected to read it? Do they come from all over the world, or are they predominantly American? Should English English be used, or American? What about phrases like "math" and "grade school"? --Aboyner 12:04, 21 Dec 2005 (EST)
- Missed this when it was first posted, but targeted audience is really anyone interested in algorithms (are there enough of them in just one country?) Of course, "good" English is encouraged, though I think only dplass really checks it.. Larry 17:04, 1 Feb 2006 (EST)
Damn straight --dplass 16:00, 17 Jun 2006 (EDT)
[edit] Feedback
Very interesting wiki site!... Thanx! --HarryRens 19:15, 15 Oct 2005 (EDT)
[edit] Spam
I'm sure everyone agrees that spam has become a major issue here. This page says that MediaWiki already has the required anti-spam feature, which is as simple as setting the value of a variable to something, so why isn't it being used yet? One of the admins please look into this; it shouldn't be too hard to add a few regexes. (Oh, and I think adding captchas won't help; I feel the spammers here are actual humans with lots of free time on their hands.) --Aboyner 09:32, 10 Mar 2006 (EST)
- I think we, (and by we I mean Larry), should upgrade the MediaWiki version. When I wanted to write mediawiki extensions for algorithmist features, it seemed that a lot of infrastructure needed for what I wanted to do was included in newer versions. --Rrenaud 16:21, 10 Mar 2006 (EST)
- I read up on it and it doesn't seem so hard. Which version are you thinking about? I'll probably do it this weekend or next weekend, depending on my snowboarding schedule.. Larry 08:59, 14 Mar 2006 (EST)
- I think we, (and by we I mean Larry), should upgrade the MediaWiki version. When I wanted to write mediawiki extensions for algorithmist features, it seemed that a lot of infrastructure needed for what I wanted to do was included in newer versions. --Rrenaud 16:21, 10 Mar 2006 (EST)
[edit] Moving Server
Moving server sometime this week, so there might be outages. Will look into upgrading MediaWiki versions.
Larry 18:44, 28 Apr 2006 (EDT)
[edit] Trademarked?
Is "Algorithmist" really trademarked, by Larry or someone? --dplass 16:02, 17 Jun 2006 (EDT)
[edit] Server Moved!
Took me a long time, and I still got to upgrade the mediawiki version (I tried yesterday but it failed). But you should notice that it's a lot faster now! Larry 09:23, 25 Jul 2006 (EDT)
[edit] take all URL links off the main page
Should we add a link to MathsChallenge http://mathschallenge.net/ to the main page?
The link given for Project Euler redirects to http://projecteuler.net/ . Should the main page link directly there instead? Or should we take all the URL links off the main page, and put each URL once-and-only-once on our article about it (such as Project Euler)? --DavidCary 12:43, 6 Aug 2007 (EDT)
As long as it's consistent it's fine by me. I guess the link has evolved over time - I honestly haven't checked in quite some time.
Thanks, Larry 12:56, 8 Aug 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Two things we should do
- a) Put transparency to the algorithmist logo. I mean, it looks really ugly with that white outline
- b) Put an icon on the address bar, looks pretty poor (specially in my bookmark menu :-L )
--24.232.60.65 22:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC) Probably will get to it at some point - keep on forgetting this! Larry 13:44, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
