User talk:Adasarathy

Hey. I am admaster the great.

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go look at ccy--Junggi 20:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

dude junggi what is your problem???\

Math contests

Does wikipedia have old math contests? Thanks.

Hi. Please clarify your question at the reference desk. Thank you. Xiner (talk, email) 20:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Spelling

Does wikipedia go by British or American spelling? Thanks.

It uses both, but preferably not both on the same page. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling) and Wikipedia:Spellchecking for more info. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Anirudh

Hello! I noticed that you recently created the article Anirudh. Shortly after its creation, the page was blanked by an anonymous editor. If that editor was you, I strongly suggest making all edits through your registered account to avoid confusion. Either way, the article was not really appropriate for Wikipedia as it was non-notable and nearly nonsense. Please check to make sure your article conforms to our policies and guidelines such as notability. Thank you for your contributions! —Keakealani·?·!·@ 20:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Restoring your talk page

Hello! I noticed that you blanked your talk page. This is really not the best idea because it's nice to have a coherent record of discussions that happened here rather than sifting through post histories. Therefore, I'm restoring the content of the page to the best of my ability. I hope this isn't stepping on toes. Instead of blanking, I suggest archiving your talk page so that the contents are still readily available. Thank you! —Keakealani·?·!·@ 01:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Need help

{{helpme}}

In wiki's, the tag for the math is <math> and </math>. How do I change it to dollar signs in regular latex?

And don't remove the helpme thing until I have received my answer.

Don't worry, we're not supposed to. :-)

I don't believe we have a dollar sign available in LaTeX, however you should be able to just type one: $\$12.34$. For a full listing of what symbols you can create in LaTeX and the codes for them, see Help:Displaying a formula. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 15:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

No, what I mean is like instead of using the math tags, can we change it to something else in the mediawiki PHP files? Like dollar signs? Thanks.Adasarathy 16:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I assume what you mean this that you want to be able to type <$> or such like instead of <math> if so then this is not possible as the software used on wikipedia only recognises <math>. If you need more help feel free to remove the tnull| from the help me to get more help. Andy^reply 19:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Err. it is possible! I mean can you go into the parsing files to figure this out? Its been done on the AoPSWiki.

I think Andy is right...AoPSWiki may use different software. See also Help:Displaying a formula. Giggy ^Talk 01:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

It is possible, as AoPSWiki is running the same software ([1]), but it won't be done on wikipedia.--Werdan7^{T @} 01:42, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

No, I mean that I want to know how to do it on my own wiki.Adasarathy 16:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

You might want to look through the help files on the MediaWiki website, or ask on the MediaWiki IRC channel. :-) Stwalkerster talk 17:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Not a dev, but I believe you'd have to change line 579 of /includes/Parser

			$elements[] = 'math';

to

			$elements[] = '$';

line 616

				case 'math':

to

				case '$':

I know that the second change is necessary, the first may be as well, you'd have to experiment. --ST47Talk·Desk 17:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what the IRC channel is, but it doesn't work.

IRC is a chat channel, and that particular one is run by the Mediawiki developers. You'll probably need to download some form of application to get it to work - I use [www.mirc.com mIRC], which works fine, although there are others available. See Internet Relay Chat for more information on it. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:37, 23 August 2007 (UTC)