User talk:MCrawford
terminology
It appears that i began the ellipse page with the term "locus" in the first line, but defined that merely as "set" in the appositive following it. Later, i used words like "far end" and "closer end" to help define the semimajor and -minor axes. I forgot middle schoolers would be reading this as well. Would it be okay then to describe things like that and just use the fancy terms at the end?
It's probably best to divide the article in half. Define it in a "nice" way for the students who will be reading about it for the first time. Later, define it again.--MCrawford 20:54, 19 June 2006 (EDT)
Let's say you're posting an article with some problems in it. Some of them you'll want to use as examples but you'll of course want to leave some exercises for users to try themself. But the solution should also be available (but not visible). So how would you suggest doing this? It would be nice to have hide tags, but those aren't available on the wiki (or is there an equivalent of hide tags?...). Other possibilities are to create a whole new article for the solution (this seems like it would create way too many articles though), post the solution on the message board somewhere and then link to it, or post all the problems and then in the next section post the answers and leave it up to the reader to not read ahead?Joe 09:04, 20 June 2006 (EDT)
I don't think it's a big deal not to have solutions hidden for examples. They are after all the first examples students will see. There shouldn't be need for extra articles. Then link to 2 or 3 additional problems in the forum where solutions are hidden.--MCrawford 12:17, 20 June 2006 (EDT)
Yes, the MIMC article was copied from Wikipedia by iversonfan2005. Here is the Wikipedia article, here is the AoPSWiki article. However, I wrote that article on Wikipedia with my AoPS screename, as shown here. Since I wrote the article for Wikipedia, perhaps they get the copyright, and if that is indeed so, please delete the article, and I will start from scratch. --Sean 14:03, 21 June 2006 (EDT)
