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How to use this wiki

The purpose of this article is to explain how to use the full functionality of this wiki. If you click "Create an article," you will arrive at a page with a form consisting of text boxes. The first text box is the overview of the article, and will appear at the top, and it can contain an image.

The subsequent boxes allow you to create sections, each containing images, text, and formatted html content. This article will tell you how to render content in this format, and to insert equations and figures into your article.

Style

The WYSIWYG editor provides buttons you can use to format the text. You can also insert raw html into the boxes you see in order to embed videos or other links to third party content. The way that the buttons work is that they generate html tags to give the desired action, and then a Javascript program renders them in real time in the desired format.

Attaching an image is simple, just click attach section image below the section content text box and select the file to upload from your hard drive. The file will be hosted on Amazon's S3 cloud storage service, and will be rendered when the user goes to the page. This may be useful in attaching explanatory figures to your content. Note that the image will appear as a small thumbnail alongside your article, but that if the user clicks the image, it will appear at full scale. This is a fancy feature designed to facilitate learning. Make sure to give your image a caption.

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Equations

This wiki uses the MathJax Javascript toolbox to dynamically render LaTeX equations as the user views the page. You can generate inline equations like

$H(p)= - \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}p(x)\log p(x) dx$

by bracketing your LaTeX expression with $$\backslash \left [ ... \backslash \right ]$$

You can also render them inline within the flow of the text by bracketing with round brackets, as in with  $$\backslash \left ( ... \backslash \right )$$. "We define $$H(p)=- \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}p(x)\log p(x) dx$$ ..."

If you don't know how to use LaTeX, check out the online LaTeX equation editor which allows you to graphically create equations. If you want to know how else you can use the MathJax library, make use of the strong community at mathjax.org