Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Lancaster University Edit-a-thon 8 April 2015

About the event

The London Mathematical Society is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2015, and as part of the Northern Regional Meeting and Workshop at Lancaster University, we will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. It will take place on the afternoon of 8th April 2015. The session will begin with a short talk about editing basics, and experienced Wikipedians will be available to provide assistance and answer questions throughout. The goal of the afternoon will be to have conference participants improve some Wikipedia articles related to mathematics. Since the conference is in celebration of the LMS, in addition to improving mathematical content, we would also welcome changes to articles relating to British mathematics and its history!

How do I prepare?

• Create a Wikipedia account beforehand - en:Special:UserLogin/signup
• Consider bringing your own laptop (wi-fi will be provided); there will also be computers in the room
• Learn about editing if you like: Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Think about what you would like to edit; then you could gather some relevant source material to bring with you on the day (such as papers or books)

Participants

1. User:Mark L MacDonald - organizer
2. Clem Rutter (talk) 10:55, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
3. User:QuantumGroupie
4. Andrew Brooke-Taylor
5. Mike Peel (talk)
6. Gordon Blower-local resident
7. Andy Baker
8. Pavel Sechin
9. Jmaunder (talk) 15:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
10. Decapitatedfishmonger
11. plevyman
12. Nicholas Cooney
13. Jkock

Useful Links

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia editing for research scientists
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics; and in particular the subsection #Typesetting of mathematical formulae
• Help:Displaying a formula with a useful section showing examples of implemented TeX formulas
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Wikipedia:Teahouse - A friendly venue where new (or old) editors can ask questions about anything, with very prompt response times (almost always within an hour, and often much sooner).
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics (talk page) - A good place to discuss issues specific to mathematics articles; the talk page has quite a lot of traffic.
• Template for Scientist infobox (how to typeset scientists' info box)

Resources about the history of the LMS

• Adrian Rice (2005). "London Mathematical Society Historical Overview" (PDF).
• E. F. Collingwood (1966). "A century of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF). Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
• Rice, Adrian; Wilson, Robin (1998). "From National to International Society: The London Mathematical Society, 1867–1900". Historia Mathematica. 25.

Some articles needing creation, updating and/or editing

Add articles as appropriate. If you are currently working on an article listed below, please sign your name next to it.

1. London Mathematical Society - Could be expanded using the sources above
2. De Morgan Medal - Could be expanded using the sources above
3. Homotopical algebra - Could be expanded; this short article is mostly unchanged since 2004
4. Derived algebraic geometry - Could be expanded; this short article was written about a year ago by one person
5. Monad (category theory) - Could be updated and improved; article is mostly unchanged since 2006
6. Simplicial commutative ring - Could be expanded, and references improved; it was written in 2013 by one person
7. Special values of L-functions - Written in 2009; Beilinson conjectures currently redirects there; could be expanded using the multiple reviews about the Beilinson conjectures; see also Beilinson regulator; nowhere are the conjectures actually stated
8. Deligne cohomology - Could be expanded; written in 2011
9. Pre-Lie algebra - Could be expanded; written in early 2011
10. ... add more here by clicking "edit"

Lists of mathematics articles in need of attention

1. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Mathematics - A list of hundreds of requested mathematics articles (roughly sorted by subject); these either need to be redirected to the appropriate article, or a new article needs to be created
2. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Mathematics#Mathematicians - A subsection of the above, specifically for requested articles about mathematicians
3. Category:Abstract algebra stubs - List of very short Abstract algebra articles that you could expand
4. Category:Topology stubs - List of very short Topology articles that you could expand
5. Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics - A very long list of mathematics articles which are sorted by the type of issue the article has (i.e. articles lacking sources, articles lacking context, confusing articles, etc)

Articles on conference participants

1. Peter M. Neumann
2. Dennis Sullivan
3. Ieke Moerdijk
4. Victor Ginzburg
5. Dominic Joyce

Articles that were created and/or improved during the edit-a-thon

1. Category of vector spaces
2. Length of a Weyl group element
3. Vopěnka's principle
4. Quotient group
5. Sylvester equation
6. Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem
7. Differential graded Lie algebra
8. Internal category
9. Category algebra
10. Symmetric bilinear form
11. Graded category
12. Extendible cardinal
13. Glossary of algebraic groups
14. Graded vector space