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'''Welcome to the ''Citizendium!'''''  We hope you will contribute [[CZ:Be Bold|boldly]] and well.  Here are pointers for a [[CZ:Quick Start|quick start]].  You'll probably want to know [[CZ:The Author Role|how to get started as an author]].  Just look at [[CZ:Getting Started]] for other helpful "startup" links, and [[CZ:Home]] for the top menu of community pages.  Be sure to stay abreast of events via [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list] (do join!) and [http://blog.citizendium.org the blog].  Please also join the [[CZ:Mailing lists|workgroup mailing list(s)]] that concern your particular interests.  You can test out [[CZ:How to edit an article|editing]] in the [[CZ:Sandbox|sandbox]] if you'd like.  If you need help to get going, the [http://forum.citizendium.org/ forums] is one option.  That's also where we discuss policy and proposals.  You can ask any [[:Category:CZ Constables|constable]] for help, too.  Me, for instance!  Just put a note on their "talk" page.  Again, welcome and have fun! [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 17:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

== Some ideas for contributions ==

Hi Richard,
welcome aboard CZ. Matt has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for icon documentation, see [[Template:Rpl/Doc]]):
{{rpl|Mathematics}}
{{rpl|Number theory}}
{{rpl|RSA}}
{{rpl|Combinatorics}}
{{rpl|Arithmetics}}
{{rpl|Elliptic curve}}
{{rpl|Communication theory}}
{{rpl|Oxford}}
{{rpl|Cambridge}}
{{rpl|Erdős number}}
{{rpl|Paul Erdős}}

In order to find articles dealing with similar topics, it's also worth looking at the [[:Category:Related Article Subpages|Related Article]] [[CZ:Subpages|subpages]] of such an article.

Finally, in case you are involved in homework assignments, please consider doing so via [[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium articles]].

Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 10:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

: I have started pages on [[RSA]], [[Alan Turing]] and various related things but since I'm an amateur cryptographer rather than a professional mathematician, you could almost certainly improve them. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 04:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for those.  Initially, I'm planning to look at primality tests, pseudoprimes; sieve methods; Diophantine equations; elliptic curves.  [[User:Richard Pinch|Richard Pinch]] 06:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

== Welcome! ==

Thanks for joining us!  Nice to see another mathematician around! --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 22:31, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks -- looking forward to it.  [[User:Richard Pinch|Richard Pinch]] 22:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

::These small articles you are bringing over from wikipedia are excellent, nice work.  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

:::Thanks -- I find that I contributed 282 articles (not all mathematics) to WP before I got disillusioned ...  [[User:Richard Pinch|Richard Pinch]] 22:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

== Disambiguations ==
Hi Richard, thanks for spell-checking [[Unit (disambiguation)]]. I saw that you started some other disambiguation pages, and even though no official rule has been established, it has become common practice to use the {{tl|r}} template there, as on Related Pages. I have thus edited [[Transitivity (disambiguation)]] accordingly. Please check back and comment on whether you'd prefer to have the hierarchy back. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:02, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
:I already put the hierarchy back in. Besides, you may also wish to have a mathematical look at [[CZ:List of words with multiple uses]]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:10, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
::Thanks, I'll try to remember to use that style.  [[User:Richard Pinch|Richard Pinch]] 19:44, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
:::Please also take another look at [[Order (disambiguation)]] and [[Order (mathematics)]]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 11:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

== Editorship ==

Why aren't you a maths editor?--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 12:12, 26 November 2008 (UTC)