One Dollar Coin of AoPS

by rrusczyk, Jun 14, 2007, 4:41 PM

DPatrick recently described the AoPSWiki as the one dollar coin of our website. I think he's right -- it's a good idea that isn't well integrated to the rest of the site. We're going to try to change that in the next few months. First, we'd like to port more of the resources section, and the LaTeX pages, into the Wiki. Next, we're going to try to tie the Forum to the Wiki by making it easy to link from the Forum to the Wiki in the same way you can link items within the Wiki. Anyone else have any suggestions? Also, is anyone interested in helping us port the LaTeX pages over?

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Ha, nice analogy

by joml88, Jun 15, 2007, 12:20 AM

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This is an interesting issue to raise. Personally, I find that it is perfectly easy to find the information on the forums. I am making an effort to take another step in geometry [by learning how to apply polars, pascal, branchion, various circumscribed quadrilaterals stuff, cross ratio, harmonic, etc] [blah I realize that these things are not usually necessary, but they can offer nice solutions]. Anyway, I suppose that it would make sense to have pages on the wiki for these topics. But the thing is that all the information is readily available on the forums anyway. I can just search and get the information that I want. So as an 'active participant' [I think that is reasonable to say], I have no particular motivation to post on the wiki when the information is available on the forums anyway.

by Altheman, Jun 18, 2007, 8:55 PM

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An easy way to link from the forum to the wiki would be nice. Also, I would really like it if Asymptote were available on the wiki.

Anyhow, in response to Altheman's post, I think that the information on the forums is often quite scattered, incomplete, or hard to find. The wiki, however, is more organized, and it can be refined and expanded by any person on the forums, rather than a small group of moderators, which means that it will probably be of higher quality.

However, I think that the contest problems on the forum are already fairly organized by the resources/contests section. If the resources section is imported into the wiki, that spoils the fun of posting all the problems there all over again. I wouldn't like that very much—I wasn't really around when the bulk of the old olympiad problems were begin posted in the resources section, but I can still post old IMO shortlist problem on the wiki, even though they might have been posted in the forum years ago—in fact, I just finished posting such a problem.

by Boy Soprano II, Jun 24, 2007, 3:04 PM