Welcome, TWikiGuest!

Welcome to the Cornell Math Wiki! This is a meeting place to work on common interests. Anyone can contribute using any web browser. A Wiki looks like a normal web site... except that it encourages contribution and editing of pages, questions, answers, comments and updates.

"Wiki" systems are fundamentally editable web pages. It's a fun and useful way of communicating asynchronously over the web for many existing intranet and public Internet sites. TWiki, the software that this Wiki is based on, is simple to learn and use. It aims to provide a transparent way for you to publish and exchange your ideas with others over the web.

What's in a TWiki?

• Webs: A TWikiSite is divided into webs, each one represents an area for collaboration. This site has the following webs: ITO, MEC, MSC, Main, MathComputing, Numb3rs, People, Sandbox, TWiki
• Topics: Each web is made up of hyperlinked topics that appear in your browser.

Some things to do

• Browse. This is a site like other sites. Read and follow interesting links.
• Write. Speak your mind! From your browser you can change or add to anything you see in a TWiki topic. Use regular text or TWikiShorthand.
• Experiment. Edit your personal page or visit the Sandbox web.
• Organize. You can learn to use TWikiForms and FormattedSearches to include topic information - for example, classify pages by subject, status, or date.
• Learn more. Some good places to start:
  • TWikiTutorial is a 20-minute tour of TWiki essentials.
  • ATasteOfTWiki is a short introduction training course for beginners.
  • WikiReferences links to selected articles and books about wiki technology and online collaboration.
  • WikiSyntax - simple syntax for edits
  • MathModePlugin - how to add math to a page (this is a math department, you know...)
  • GoodStyle - recommendations for edits

Some basics

Editing a page:

• click Edit at the bottom of any topic and make your changes
• click [ Preview Changes ] at the bottom to verify the topic (use your brower's Back button if necessary)
• click [ Save Changes ] You've now edited the topic!

Creating a page

See a question mark link "?" behind a WikiWord? That means that there's no topic yet for that TWikiWord?. If you want to create a topic for that WikiWord, just click on the question mark. The topic will be created and you will be in the editor window.

Viewing the history of a topic

Click History at the bottom of a topic

Attaching files

Click Attach to upload and attach any type of file.