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Author Topic: Best way to incorporate orthogonality/orthonormality proofs  (Read 5140 times)
Dan Nessett
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« Reply #45 on: July 13, 2009, 12:48:07 PM »


This is what I did. But, there appears to be islands (perhaps continents) of material that cannot be reached (or easily reached) from the Citizendium main page. While I have argued (and continue to argue) that most access to Citizendium will come through sites like Google, there will still be a reasonable percentage that starts with the main page and drills down to topics of interest. So, obvious connectivity from the main page to mathematical topics is desirable.

This is an example of what I'll compress and call the "orphaned article" versus "strong article" problem.  Not everyone agrees that strong articles are desired, but their characteristics are:
*Linked to from at least three other nontrivial pages (i.e., not subpages, not redirects unless the redirects have definitions or related articles). These pages may be Related Articles.
*Can trace to a top-level article in a discipline, if not the workgroup or home page
*Have Related Articles subpage

There's a rambling discussion of issues at CZ Talk: Usability.

You may wish to review the link to "CZ Talk: Usability". It didn't work in my browser. This may have something to do with it appearing within a forum message, not a CZ wiki page.
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Howard C. Berkowitz
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« Reply #46 on: July 13, 2009, 01:10:03 PM »


This is what I did. But, there appears to be islands (perhaps continents) of material that cannot be reached (or easily reached) from the Citizendium main page. While I have argued (and continue to argue) that most access to Citizendium will come through sites like Google, there will still be a reasonable percentage that starts with the main page and drills down to topics of interest. So, obvious connectivity from the main page to mathematical topics is desirable.

This is an example of what I'll compress and call the "orphaned article" versus "strong article" problem.  Not everyone agrees that strong articles are desired, but their characteristics are:
*Linked to from at least three other nontrivial pages (i.e., not subpages, not redirects unless the redirects have definitions or related articles). These pages may be Related Articles.
*Can trace to a top-level article in a discipline, if not the workgroup or home page
*Have Related Articles subpage

There's a rambling discussion of issues at CZ Talk: Usability.

You may wish to review the link to "CZ Talk: Usability". It didn't work in my browser. This may have something to do with it appearing within a forum message, not a CZ wiki page.

I fixed the error above.

Were you able to view it from within the wiki?  It works there for me.
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Dan Nessett
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« Reply #47 on: July 13, 2009, 01:16:32 PM »


This is what I did. But, there appears to be islands (perhaps continents) of material that cannot be reached (or easily reached) from the Citizendium main page. While I have argued (and continue to argue) that most access to Citizendium will come through sites like Google, there will still be a reasonable percentage that starts with the main page and drills down to topics of interest. So, obvious connectivity from the main page to mathematical topics is desirable.

This is an example of what I'll compress and call the "orphaned article" versus "strong article" problem.  Not everyone agrees that strong articles are desired, but their characteristics are:
*Linked to from at least three other nontrivial pages (i.e., not subpages, not redirects unless the redirects have definitions or related articles). These pages may be Related Articles.
*Can trace to a top-level article in a discipline, if not the workgroup or home page
*Have Related Articles subpage

There's a rambling discussion of issues at CZ Talk: Usability.

You may wish to review the link to "CZ Talk: Usability". It didn't work in my browser. This may have something to do with it appearing within a forum message, not a CZ wiki page.

I fixed the error above.

Were you able to view it from within the wiki?  It works there for me.

It works now (from within the forum.citizendium.org/... page).
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