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Welcome!

Hello Meni Rosenfeld, and

welcome
to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a

Wikipedia:Where to ask a question
or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! 

Thank you for making an account.

I replied on my talk page about the square root. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

oops! yes, we ARE interesting, are we not?

I am a newcomer to the Wiki-world too. Thanks for the correction! MathStatWoman 18:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your New Toolset Page is at "User:Meni Rosenfeld/Toolset"

I kind of suspected you might have wanted to prepare a general intro page (which is why I warned you). I don't know how old you are, but I get the strong feeling that the "Boomer" and following generations, for the most part, prefer "trial & error"— not something that would appeal to a mathematician— but something strongly appealing to the "Adventure Game" set. (I, myself, am a recently retired Computer Scientist— and I date from the early '50s and analog and hybrid computers.)

I am now testing the intro page. I realize the spirit of Wikipedia is more in the nature of communal activities. But I feel some obligation not to provide non-working or otherwise defective references for the newbies.

But, hey, I placed a copy on a page called User:Meni Rosenfeld/Toolset It's all yours to do with as you please! But keep track of any changes you make to the generic (true content) stuff; you may want to change the Generic Page when I make it public. (At the end of the week; I promise.)

I suggest you bookmark that page and put a reference to all your other pages in the "My Shortcuts" section.

Thanks :-)
Apparently you are doing a better work than I could have done, so I'll wait until the "official release" and then see if I have any useful suggestions. Currently what I can say is that organizing the list of articles in the form of a hierarchical list would probably be desirable.
In the meantime I will use the current version for my own quest for knowledge. :) --Meni Rosenfeld 20:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi from MathStatWoman

Hi and thanks for the comments. I responded on the shatter page. MathStatWoman 23:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi again

I had a long holiday (8 days of candles and oily food), and did not have time for Wikipedia. I must be getting old and not getting enough sleep!!! YES, I meant unit circle! sigh...thanks...and thanks for being polite...some folks on Wikipedia are uncivil! I shall answer your other q's on the shatter page after I get some sleep -- too tired now. MathStatWoman 13:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I take it that you are a
jew, like myself. That's nice. Where are you from? --Meni Rosenfeld 14:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Random math article

Hello Jitse, I have noticed that you have a tool for a Random article in mathematics. That is of great interest to me (please see

my discussion of the issue). Do you have any remarks on what is said in that discussion? Do you know a way to make such a tool more built-into Wikipedia? --Meni Rosenfeld 16:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Wow, I'm impressed that you found that. I don't have much to add to the discussion. The problem is that it is not easy to generate a list of all articles in Category:Mathematics or one of its subcategories. In my case, I basically copy the list from Oleg and I use it to generate Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity (which includes the total number of maths articles, by the way); since I have the list anyway it is quite easy to pick a random article. However, the list is updated only once a day to be easy on the servers. Due to the way the database containing Wikipedia is implemented, generating a list of all articles in some category or one of its subcategories will always take a lot of time (I think, but Magnus Manske seems to think that this is quite feasible [1] [2]). I think that it will be pretty hard to generate a random article without having this list.
I'm glad to answer any other questions; I happen to know a bit about the technical side since I'm interested in getting Wikipedia support MathML. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, the list is not mine, is the
list of mathematics articles. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:17, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

I'm glad I have an opportunity to make you glad :)

  1. Do I understand correctly that there are (at the time of writing this message) 12151 math articles and 3208 stubs?
  2. Is it possible to make your tool work within WP, without going through an external link, which seems to make the process slower?
  3. Is it likely that the way categories work will change, so it becomes possible to conduct category-specific queries (num. of articles, random entry, statistics, etc.) without ad-hoc manual tools?
  4. Does your tool work like the one suggested in the
    aforementioned discussion
    , making different articles appear at different probabilities, or does it employ an other method?
  5. How do articles make their way in\out of the list of mathematics articles?

--Meni Rosenfeld 13:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are indeed 12151 math articles, but around 700 of them are redirects (that problem needs to be dealt with eventually). To answer your last question, articles come in either by hand, or lately, via User:mathbot (see first section). They come out via User:mathbot/Blacklist. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 19:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
1. There are 12151 maths articles according to the definition at the bottom of
List of mathematics categories. I think that there are a lot of articles having little to do with mathematics that are indirectly in Category:Mathematics
.
2. It is theoretically possible to rewrite my tool in PHP and get it included in MediaWiki (the software that runs this website) but I think it won't be easy to convince the developers that this is a good idea. Another possibility is to put the tool on the m:Toolserver so that it can talk to the database server directly.
3. My guess is: not in the short term (say within one year), but quite possible within say five years.
4. No. It picks a number n between 1 and 12151 and then it returns the nth article, so every article should have the same probability (assuming that the random number generator in PHP is truely random).
Oleg, I thought that your bot didn't list redirects? Admittedly, my knowledge comes from an unreliable source :) -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 22:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Answer to your question 1

Hi, See discussion on shattering for my answer to one of your q's. More when I have time.

Cheers.MathStatWoman 21:05, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Starter toolset

A page by the above name has been created to assist newbies. It is an eclectic index into Wikipedia. Here's hoping it will arouse some interest in improving upon it. —>normxxxtalk—> email 07:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :-) --Meni Rosenfeld 13:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi

The weekend has ended, Shabbat and the day after to recover from Shabbat, and time again for work, school, and Wikiworld. So here we are.

Back to your q's:

1. About subsets, we probabilists do indeed use the notation that I used, but if it bothers set theorists, and I change it, then the notation will annoy the probabilists. Sigh... we cannot satisfy everyone... I really want to leave it as it is, but if Wikipedia demands otherwise, let me know, and we'll discuss it further.

2. We settled that, right?

3. More to come on empirical process article as I get time between work, research, school. Thanks to everyone who entitled that article well and re-directed it properly.

4. About discussing distribution functions (df's): [incidentally, probabilists, when doing serious research, do not use the teminology "cumulative" df's(cdf's), but just df (see all the peer-reviewed papers in Ann.Prob,. J.Appl Prob, and texts such as Loeve's on the grad level); cdf is used for undergrads, though.] Anyway, in the article on shattering, we re-cast df's in terms of collections of sets because this is a very important example: we want to study sets on the real line of the form { v : v ≤ x }, that is, sets of values that are less than or equal to x. Let C be the collection of all such sets on the real line, that is, of the form , { v : v ≤ x } for all real numbers x. This is not done in the article on df's because it does not belong there; it belongs in the article on shattering. It really is vital to discuss it in the article shattering. It is an example that appears in many peer-reviewed articles on shattering.

Cheers, MathStatWoman 13:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.
It is in general better to discuss matters relevant to a specific article in that particular article's talk page, especially when the original discussion took place there. You don't have to worry about me noticing it since it is in my watchlist (as are all other pages I've edited). If in doubt, you can always refer me to it in my talk page. I will reply now at
Talk:Shattering. --Meni Rosenfeld 19:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]
BTW, I've noticed that you don't use
edit summaries (the remark that appears near your edit in the page history) very often. It is considered bad practice to edit an article without an edit summary, because this way people have a hard time telling what you did and why you did it. Using edit summaries in talk pages is also desirable but not as critical as in articles. Besides, there is a nasty robot that can calculate the edit summary usage of the innocent and squeal to its evil master, the big man. And you don't want to upset him :-) Seriously though, if you ever try to become an administrator, mathbot will calculate your edit summary usage, and having too low a rating will make Oleg (and possibly others, though he is the most obssesed about it) vote against you. --Meni Rosenfeld 20:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Thanks for the advice

Thanks for the useful advice. All that info is good to know. How did you learn so much, so fast? MathStatWoman 21:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I probably have more time to spend in WP. --Meni Rosenfeld 07:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know

Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser :- CheckUser confirms that user:DeveloperFrom1983 (talk • contribs) is a sockpuppet of user:MathStatWoman (talk • contribs). Kelly Martin (talk) 17:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

thank you for help

thank you for help about 'decipher a ciphertext by a simple Caesar sipher.'

No problem. Just remember to post factual questions (as opposed to questions about using wikipedia) at the
reference desk.-- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 16:02, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

about a substitution cipher

dear Meni: I am not clear about your answer, I just want to know how to decrypt the message zycu. "given f(x)=23x+10 (mod 26) is a bijection(one to one and onto) that it can be used as a subtitution cipher, then decrypt the message ZYCU was enctypted by using the function." 

                                                 thank you

Help Desk

Those will be very useful! Thanks for the information. I especially like that they can be specialized for each section of the Reference Desk. Thanks again. -- Natalya 20:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I love it! That makes it so much easier to direct them to a specific article. Thanks for letting me know. -- Natalya 18:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Refdesk template issue

Thanks for your comments! I agree completely and appreciate the constructive tone. Cheers,

rodii
.

Jeanna Giese

Thanks. How come you are only active in the english wikipedia? Omer Enbar 17:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, first, seeing all sorts of WP technical terms translated to hebrew, such as "User talk namespace" appearing as "מרחב שם שיחת משתמש", gives me the creeps. Second, with no offense, I get the impression that the hebrew WP tends to attract those that are not very fluent in English writing for those that are even less fluent, and such people tend to be less knowledgeable - affecting the quality of their work. Third, one of the forces driving WP is sheer quantity of contributors - The more users are active in a project, the greater the probability that a given topic will be covered accurately - And this is true not only for articles, but also of the project process. Since the number of people active in the Hebrew WP is negligible compared to the English one, I am not likely to find useful information there, or to believe that contributing there is worth the effort.
I hope you do not find these explanations too snobbish. Ultimately, it all comes down to cost-effectiveness: Since I have no problem understanding English, it is just more worthwhile for me to be active in the English WP. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Of course not, every person is free to do as he is pleased. There are many wikipedians among the heWP that are fluent English speakers such as myself (many are mathematicians). About your third point, it is true, there are not enough people currently writing in the Hebrew wikipedia, and that is why it is in need of more writers. The only "positive" side is that current contributors influence WP much more. I have read your contributions here, and I hope I'll see you in the heWP sometime in the future.
Best regards. Omer Enbar 18:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, perhaps not. Tomorrow never knows. Could take several years though. And even if I do, I don't know if we'll meet - I'm more the Durak type than Yaniv :-). Best wishes. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 18:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Though more commonly I play skat. Omer Enbar 18:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for your help in answerimg my question about "including my article in a broader search." (Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute) When you get a chance, could you let me know how to add redirects to my article? Also, is there any way to make my article come up as an option when someone searches for something more vague, such as "bioethics"? Thanks so much! Kathychen 19:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, your article probably doesn't appear in search just because it's new. When the database gets updated, it should also appear in vague searches. But the point is that the default for the search box is "Go" and not "search" - So if you enter "Bioethics" and just click enter (which is what most people will do), you will go directly to the Bioethics article and not to a search. Only when an article with this name does not exist, pressing enter will do a search.
Now, to create a redirect, first create an article for the alternative name - For our example we'll use "Berman Bioethics Institute". One way to do it is enter this name in the search box and clicking "Go" (and not pressing enter, which will do a search). Then click on the red link "create this article". Now add to the new article this text:
#Redirect [[Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute]]
Write an edit summary like "Creating a redirect to Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute", click "save page", and you're done. Repeat for every name you wish to redirect, but avoid redirecting from names for which it can be argued that they shouldn't redirect to your article. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 09:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Kathychen 15:20, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trajectory of a projectile with air drag

Was that helpful? I could have sworn I had a differential equations textbook which explained how to calculate asymptotic expansions for solutions, but I can't find it. Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thanks! It will probably take me a while to work out all the details, but I guess I'm on the right track. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 08:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New articles

Hello. I noticed at the

help desk that you seem to think that a newly created article needs "a few weeks" before it can be searched for. This is not the case, a newly created page will be able to be searched for immediately or if thing are running slowly then in a few minutes. Please contact me on my talk page if you need any further help or discussion about this. hydnjo talk 16:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

I know for a fact that new articles don't appear in a search. Of course if you type precisely the name of an article or a redirect, you will get to the article. But if you make a search, you will find all articles containing a phrase, but only those that have been around long enough. If you don't believe me, try my examples: searching for "Lenohard" will give you all articles including the phrase "Leonhard", but searching for "Fedigan" will not yet lead you to anything. This is a known fact. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 16:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...Does that mean you agree? -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 16:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really know how long it takes as I hardly ever use WP's Search function. WP search has so many weaknesses such as case sensitivity and spelling rigidity that I quit using it. Instead I use Google's WP specific search engine which is much more tolerant of my mistakes. hydnjo talk 16:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and I also have no idea how long it takes for Google's crawler to update. hydnjo talk 16:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that we have been victims of chronology. Am I correct in now realizing you've posted in my talk page before reading my clarification at the help desk? In that case, thanks for your desire to help. At first I thought you posted it afterwards, so it irritated me quite a bit.
Regarding your new post: I use Wikipedia's search every now and then, but have learnt that its database isn't updated frequently mostly by answering to people asking why the article they have created doesn't appear in the search. (btw if you want to reply, you can do so here). -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 16:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, we're just too fast for our own good! Sorry about the mixup as my brain's frame of reference is the Go rather than the Search button. hydnjo talk 16:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, the point is that I guess most users, myself included, just press "enter", which acts like "go" when there is an article with the exact name, and like "search" otherwise. This, and the delayed update thing, confuses many people. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I also meant "enter" for "Go". Now that you've piqued my interest, I'm goin to keep watch for the Linda Marie Fedigan article to show with Google's and WP's search engines just to see how long it does take for the annotated versions to appear. hydnjo talk 17:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea. Don't hold your breath, though; I've seen articles a month old not appearing in search. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help desk header

This method doesn't seem to be averting all the Ref Desk questions. I have a sneaking suspicion that it may be caused by 1 of 2 things:

  1. If the instructions are too long and complex, people just skip them.
  2. People don't like to be told what they can't do.

Therefore, I was trying to minimize the instructions and keep them positive. I'll give it another shot. --Go for it! 19:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh, understanding humans is hard :) I guess your hypotheses are true, but still, if you don't tell people what they shouldn't do, you don't get any chance to convince them not to do it. As long as the instructions are clear, concise and polite, I don't think people will have trouble following them. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

template help

thanks for the template advice (on the helpdesk page). I've begun reading the talk pages and will soon do some testing. They are a bit esoteric, but fortunately invoking them seems reasonably easy. Thanks! MattHucke(t) 16:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Wiki-star:Help

  • Wiki-star: Hello there. Yes we have met before, and its why i've come here. I need your advice or help on how to insert image screenshots. I have all the questions posted On March 11 in the Help Desk. You can go there if you really want to know why i need help with the screenshot! So what do you say?

Thanks! Wiki-star 07:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied to your question at the help desk. Note the usage of indenting: If you start a thread, it's best to do it without indenting, and continue to use no indenting throughout.
If you reply to a post, remember to indent whenever you start a new line (click "Edit" on this section to see how I indented).
Also, when linking to a page inside wikipedia, it is better to make an internal link using double brackets: [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] will become
How to edit a page. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 08:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Trapezoid

Just a note to say thank you for your assistance on the formula, I have verified it- privately, of course- and discovered the errors you have mentioned, correcting wherever I could. I AM sorry that the wrong information has stayed on Wikipedia for so long, and grateful that you came to assist me. The question is that my education in mathematics is somewhat strangely developed- my interest for it has developed to fanaticism, and in many respects I have educated myself or tried to prove things out, just to satisfy my interest and curiosity. We have not yet done trignometry at school, and my knowledge of it was mainly self- taught, and thus sometimes defective. I am afraid I do not know the identity you have mentioned, but shall doubtless find out more about it myself. My ability is also very strangely developed- I am afraid I have not done dimensional analysis at all, but I have taught myself relativistic mathematics, and differential calculus. Luthinya 17:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you do, sir. It's yet another note from me and once again it is to thank you on the marvellous help you have provided for me, relating to the formula. Seeing these advice also reminded me of another thing I adored about mathematics- it allows you to express very complex ideas so succintly, yet never once looses the initial beauty of the idea.

As far as mathematics itself is concerned, I tend to view it in a similar model to Pygmalion's ivory virgin, an art at once so cold and precise, like the beauty of sculpture, yet endowed with a grace so celestial and unearthly, as of a most wondrous maiden, waiting only to be roused by the breath of a spring wind. To see her figure is to be ecstatically tantalized, yet one is also filled with a curious regret, upon touching her sides, to know that she is unfortunately not of the flesh. In any case, the beauty of nature is explicit through geometry, especially fractal geometry. Yet one must not confuse between the symbol of nature and nature itself, the latter being more wondrous than we will ever make of it.

I hope these opinions have somehow been amusing for you to read and not wasted your userspace. Delete them if you like. Luthinya 12:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, my talk page has plenty of space, and I wouldn't delete anything posted in it. However, I can't really say I'm art-inclined enough to fully appreciate your description - But what's important is your admiration for mathematics, which I, of course, share. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 08:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

pi as 3

em actually i have been told on sevral occasions by engineers (my my maths teacher's brother and engineers who visited the school) by the way did you thing i just made that up? never mind

Barnstar

Thanks! I've put it in my userpage. Don't forget, though, that others are\were also involved in this thing, like
Schwarzm, Ilmari Karonen, Jnothman, Go for it! et al. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:03, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply
]
You deserve it! It would not be good to forget the other contributers - thanks! -- Natalya 19:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

need help

I have a question. If I find an article and nkow that it needs to be improved, What tag shoud I stick on that article? Is there such a tag? What will this tag to to the article? Will it make it more visible to other editors(will it put it into a special list of articles that need to be improved)?--BorisFromStockdale 21:11, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup for some tags you can use. Among other thıngs, thıs wıll put the artıcle ın a category, where people lookıng for somethıng to do can notıce ıt. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 15:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Template:RD2

What was wrong with the original template? The old one worked. In this new one, the "click here"-link doesn't work properly. - Mgm|(talk) 11:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Here, I'll show you:
    • Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps.
    • Have you tried the Science section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there. For your convenience, here's the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.
    • You might find what you are looking for in the article about Sun. If you cannot find the answer there, click here to post your question at that article's talk page. If that doesn't solve your problem, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They'll be glad to answer questions about anything in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps.

-- Mgm|(talk) 11:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • I guess that's solved. Wonder what was wrong. Would still like to know what made you decide to split it up, though. - Mgm|(talk) 11:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The current {{
RD3
}} only work when substed. This is actually a plus, since it will make sure everyone will subst them. The problem with the old template is that when substed it put this in the code:
{{qif|test=|then=You might find what you are looking for in the article about [[]]. If you cannot find the answer there, [{{fullurl:Talk:|action=edit&section=new}} click here] to post your question at [[Talk:|that article's talk page]]. If that doesn't solve your problem, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference Desk]]. They'll be glad to answer questions about anything in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps.|else={{qif|test=|then=Have you tried the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/| section]] of Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference Desk]]? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there. For your convenience, here's the link to post a question there: [{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Reference desk/|action=edit&section=new&editintro=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/How_to_ask}} click here]. I hope this helps.|else=Have you tried Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference Desk]]? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference Desk]] (when you get there, just select the relevant topic, and ask away. I hope this helps.}}}}
This is both a lot of cumbersome junk, and also transcludes the qif template - so the whole point of substing the template is defeated. The new templates are much cleaner. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 15:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appear to have been blocked.

I appear to have been blocked but don't understand why. Yesterday I asked a perfectly innocent question and received a very terse answer from Erik to which I edited a thankyou note with a supplementary question, and then having saved it I noticed I had misspelt Erik as Eric so I tried to correct it but was told I had been blocked. Surely that cannot be fair? Please advise and unblock me if you agree. Thanks. [email protected] 09:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regret to advise I most definitely appear to have been blocked.

Thanks for your response advising I had not been blocked - but - I just tried to re-edit the mistake I discussed earlier and got the message that either my name or my I.P. had been blocked and when I checked the blocked list, my I.P. was there for the 16th April.White Squirrel 14:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for your concern

Thank you, Meni, for your appearance on

WP:3RR, which I am quite certain do not exist - I assume he's realized that by now. We'll see what happens.Timothy Usher 06:18, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

No problem. I will have to remark, though, that my concern was less with your case (the specifics of which I am not familiar with), and more with Sean's recent apparent tendency to disregard comments left in his Talk page. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 10:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you very much for your help. --Alf 16:54, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

math on Hebrew Wikipedia

Hello Meni. I was reading our article on the

talk + 10:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Unfortunately, I am not really familiar with the Hebrew Wikipedia. But from what I've seen, it doesn't cover nearly as many topics as enWP (my guess is, around 500 mathematical articles), and these tend to be shorter. The content that does exist seem to be of decent quality, but IMO not as good as what we have here. So the math coverage on heWP is certainly worse than on enWP. That doesn't necessarily mean the statement you quote is incorrect, if you take all the relative factors into consideration (enWP in general vs. heWP in general, math in heWP vs. other subjects in heWP, math in heWP vs. other math sources in Hebrew). In any case, if there's anything specific you want me to compare, I'd be more than happy to. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 12:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Math is better covered in other wikipedias? Now that's surprising. Mathbot 15:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm.. I had a suspicion that it might be the case that that statement was only meant to be relative. No, I don't want any specific comparison, just some informal observations from a Hebrew speaker, which you've given me. Thank you. -
talk + 17:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Happy Birthday!!