User:RainerBlome: Difference between revisions

This user pledges to return to Old-fashioned Wikipedian values. This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 1 month and 15 days.

An unreferenced truth is better than a referenced falsehood.

About Me

Why do I like Wikipedia? Well, first because of its outstanding quality and extent.

However, Wikipedia is also a particularly good example of a "Knowledge Medium", which is a favourite subject of mine. The first knowledge medium was "watching", followed by "showing" and "telling", followed by "writing". Then came the internet, facilitating information flow in general, then the web, facilitating knowledge representation (HTML) and access (HTTP and search engines). Now, we have wikis, allowing nearly limitless quality improvements. A future step may be the additional (but not exclusive) machine-processable formalization of some of the represented knowledge. Wikidata is a step in this direction. This might help in automated theorem proving and would turn Wikipedia into a semantic network.

Bookmarks

• Official MediaWiki math editing help
• Wikipedia Mathematics Manual of Style: Simple formulae
• User:RainerBlome/How to write good edit summaries

Anonymous contributions worth mentioning

• 23:22, 27 August 2005 (hist) (diff) Sherman–Morrison formula

• 21:24, 27 August 2005 (hist) (diff) Dyadic product (Specified vector orientation and fixed it in the example)

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