Timeline for Should users be shown some basic information before posting the first question?
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 9:39 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | Uh I meant as the latter sorry. And I also think that people asking a new question could benefit more from reading it than the generic "how to ask" page anyway | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 18:22 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @DenisNardin Or maybe you did not mean that as a page for the first time askers but as a replacement of the page "How do I ask a good question?" in the Help Center? (The title is different but the url basically says "How to ask?": mathoverflow.net/help/how-to-ask ) | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 18:22 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @Daniel Well, the page you mention is linked at the end of the text proposed above. If you suggest to use the page from your comment as the page shown to first time askers, to me it seems to be a bit long for this purpose. Still if you think it is a good idea, you could post this as a separate answer. In this way it is more likely that other users might notice your suggestion, vote for/against, say in comments what they think about it. | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 18:11 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | I believe that the how to ask page should be replaced by the old one you link to. That was removed after the move to the stackexchange network, but it is far superior | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 12:52 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I have changed the target of the link suggesting other sites to this recent post: My question was closed on MO because it is not research level. Where should I ask instead? Similarly I have changed the "TeX link" to this post: How does one type mathematical formulas on this site? The advantage that I see is that these pages can be edited by the community and changed whenever needed - perhaps it is better to have as the target of those link something that can be easily updated. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:56 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2018 at 6:37 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Maybe we could make a question on Meta MathOverflow along the lines: "My question was closed on MathOverflow as not reasearch-level? Where should I ask instead?" This could be used in the above template (in the part which currently looks like this: "There are other sites for general mathematical questions.") And also we could direct users to that question in comments to questions on main which are put on hold. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I should probably include also a link to Federico Poloni's answer to: “Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming.” — are we? (It is, at least to some extent, related to this.) | |
| May 30, 2018 at 14:22 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2018 at 13:39 | history | edited | Emil Jeřábek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
we don't need titles to be eye-catchers, but to accurately describe the question
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| May 30, 2018 at 10:12 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
tried to improve the "Latex syntax" part
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| May 30, 2018 at 10:05 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @FedericoPoloni As I said, feel free to edit. (The post is CW explicitly to encourage editing by several users - after all this is what community wiki posts are for.) | |
| May 30, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | Federico Poloni |
If you want to be technically correct, then $$...$$ is not "Latex formatting": Latex requires \[...\] for displayed equations. Double dollars are deprecated plain-Tex syntax. A keep-it-simple solution would be calling it "Latex-like". Also, I don't think it's necessary to show the result as well; mathematicians are well trained to read simple Latex formulas directly from their source.
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| May 30, 2018 at 9:41 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @FedericoPoloni I have edited this a bit following your comment. Feel free to edit it further. (Especially if this is not what you had in mind.) Personally, I would prefer keeping at least some mention of MathJax, since calling it TeX or LaTeX is technically incorrect. But it is certainly a valid point that more people have heard of (La)TeX than of MathJax. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 9:39 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2018 at 9:33 | comment | added | Federico Poloni |
Agree completely. If anything, I would just replace "Mathjax formatting" with "Tex formatting, e.g. $\sqrt{a+b}$ or $$a^2+b^2=c^2$$". A mathematician in our audience is surely already familiar with Latex, but might not know what Mathjax is.
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| May 30, 2018 at 9:10 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2018 at 8:26 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I don't think that including link to the tutorial on Mathematics Meta into this page would be good - if not for other reason, new users already have enough confusion between MathOverflow and Mathematics and this link would send the new user to another site. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 8:25 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | 2. Another question is what to use as target link for MathJax. One possibility would be to create a short MathJax help here on meta. Another possibility would be adding entry to the help center - similarly as on Mathematics. (This help entry could contain further links.) Another option is the link to MathJax guide on Meta Stack Exchange. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 8:24 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | ... NRICH." I have included link to the specific section of help center - is this a good option? | |
| May 30, 2018 at 8:24 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | 1. I think that it is reasonable to mention other sites such as Mathematics. They are mentioned in the help center in: What topics can I ask about here? However including here the whole sentence from there might be too lengthy: "But there are lots of other math Q&A sites where your question might fit right in, like math.stackexchange.com, Ask Dr. Math, Art of Problem Solving, Physics Forums, ... | |
| May 30, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Since the question was bumped by Federico Poloni, I went ahead and create some basic suggestion what to include - to great extent it is "plagiarized" from Mathematics site. I hope other users will join and improve the initial version. I will mention here in the comments some problems which I see with this initial version. | |
| S May 30, 2018 at 8:09 | history | answered | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S May 30, 2018 at 8:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Martin Sleziak |