AoPSWiki:Community Portal

Welcome to our community portal. This is the page to learn about using/editing the AoPSWiki, discover what is currently on-going on the AoPSWiki, and view important guidelines and policies that editors should abide by.

About

Main article: AoPSWiki:About

What makes AoPSWiki different from other math-related wikis and web resources is that the AoPSWiki is more involved in problem-solving techniques than most other math dictionaries or math encyclopedias (which are usually written on the level of professional mathematicians).

Getting Started

• The AoPSWiki tutorial contains basic information about editing the wiki, including general syntax help.
• To begin uploading and adding solutions to contest problems, take a look at AoPSWiki:Contest Problems Standards.
• Different namespaces include the talk, template, and category namespaces. Each serves to a different purpose.
• Learn what AoPSWiki is not a place for.
• For other information regarding wikis, see the MediaWiki help contents.

Help Out

As a fairly new wiki, the AoPSWiki needs the help of many contributors. Here are some ways to help improve the quality of the AoPSWiki.

• Create an non-existent article.
• Edit existing articles to fix errors (both grammatical and mistakes) or to add more information.
• De-stub a short article.
• Create and upload relevant images.
• Add solutions to problems that lack them.
• Support the AoPSWiki.
• Spread the word about the AoPSWiki.

Requests

• Requests: Infinte Descent, Logical notation, Kelvin, Imperial system, 2007 iTest Problems/Problem 27, Thermodynamics, Optics, Thermal energy, Weight, Width, Turing machines, more...
• Stubs: Biology, Element, Kernel, Logic, Field theory, Group theory, Ring theory, Set theory, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, more...
• Wikify: Riemann Hypothesis, Remainder, Ring, Axiom, more...
• Image requests: Directed graph, Platonic solid, Integral, Pick's Theorem, more...
• Incomplete material: United States of America Computing Olympiad, Circle, Carmichael function, Algebraic topology, more...

Note: It would be appreciated if you would correct and update this list if the listed articles no longer belong in the section.

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Dirty Work

If you're really patient, you can do some of the boring work on the wiki:

• Add this template: Template:Main, this one: Template:Image and this one: Template:Stub to lacking articles.
• Move the articles in the AoPSWiki: namespace that are tutorials to the Help: namespace.
• Transfer AMC/AIME/USAMO/IMO problems onto the wiki.
• Put articles into categories. Here are six of the most lacking categories:
  • Category:Geometry (as well as its subcategory, trigonometry)
  • Category:Axioms
  • Category:Theorems (also formulas in this one)
  • Category:Number Theory
  • Category:Definition
  • Category:Algebra

Policies

In order to maintain an orderly wiki, the AoPSWiki contains a set of general guidelines and policies that editors should always follow.

Policies

• AoPSWiki:What AoPSWiki is not - A:NOT
• AoPSWiki:Spam - A:SPAM
• AoPSWiki:Netiquette - A:NET

Guidelines

• AoPSWiki:Contest Problems Standards - A:CPS
• AoPSWiki:Naming conventions - A:NAME

See Also

• Main Page
• AoPSWiki:Tutorial
• Special:Specialpages
• Wikipedia Help