Yyexpwk

Hi there, feel free to talk to me here :) --Yyexpwk (talk) 23:21, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I was happy to see you join the neuroscience WikiProject. Please feel free to get in touch with me at User talk:Tryptofish any time if you have any questions at all about editing Wikipedia. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:23, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm still trying to figure out how to convert LaTex into Wiki markup efficiently.... Do you by any chance know any easy ways? --Yyexpwk (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't really have a good way to do that. All I can think of is to change it into plain text, then copy/paste it here, and then manually add the markup, or include the wiki markup in the original version before making plain text. Also, if you are using the Visual Editor, well, don't, because it's inferior to the regular editing window. I'll ping EEng, who is better at these kinds of technical questions than I am. Also, you can ask about it at WP:Village Pump/Technical. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:44, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Struck the part about plain text, proof that I don't know much about technical stuff! --Tryptofish (talk) 23:50, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe this would work: [1]. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:58, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! :D I also noticed this one! Will try :) --Yyexpwk (talk) 00:07, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

This (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Mathematics#Typesetting_of_mathematical_formulae) should get you started. Your goto guy on anything math-related should be David Eppstein. You can rely on Tryptofish for stuff like where the bathroom is, but if you ask him about anything else you'll soon find yourself completely confused. EEng 00:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

P.S. I see from your contribution history so far that you've been working on an article about the hippocampus. This doesn't make sense because hippos don't go to school. Fish have schools, though. EEng 00:37, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Where is the bathroom, anyway? --Tryptofish (talk) 00:33, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Just figured out a solution of converting a whole LaTeX article with citations into MediaWiki :) Pandoc is a quite good tool for that - the only thing needed is just one line of code! Here is an example: pandoc -f latex -t mediawiki --metadata link-citations --bibliography=bibl.bib --csl=cslstyle.csl test.tex -o test.wiki

bibl.bib is the file of the bibliography. cslstyle.csl is the name of the file that defines the citation style ( There are lots of choices of citation styles that can be downloaded from: editor.citationstyles.org) test.tex is the name of the file to convert from. test.wiki is the name of the output file. --metadata link-citations creates hyperlinks with the in-text citations and the bibliography (similar to footnotes). I haven't figured out a way to convert into the exact footnote style that people generally use in wiki yet....but at least it can do something like this: Here is a bathroom for a hippo [1]. --Yyexpwk (talk) 01:17, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

This looks useful, but (per the notice below) please don't just import academic publications verbatim into Wikipedia. Besides usually being a copyright violation, the writing style needed for an encyclopedia readable by the public is different from the style academics would use in writing for other academics in the same field. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks David Eppstein. Yes I'm more aware of that now :) --Yyexpwk (talk) 01:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

References

1. Clip Comedy. HAHAHA hippo poops EVERYWHERE! n.d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcwP26wK5KM