Zadigus

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Pumpmeup 11:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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I see you used the {{helpme}} template on this page. If you do have a question, please use the template again on this page and ask it here. Cheers, Pumpmeup 11:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I've moved your question below as that template is only meant for you user talk page. Pumpmeup 11:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Helpme

^{(moved from Talk:Lemme de gauss Pumpmeup 11:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC))} {{helpme}}

I am encoutering the following problems :

• I don't know how to place my page "Lemme de gauss" in the disambiguation page related to Gauss
• I have four pictures in the pdf_t format (I translated this page from my .tex file); how can I translate it in a convenient format ?
• This page presents an important Lemma from Riemannian geometry. I have placed it between blockquotes and I have found some pages in Wikipedia where we really can state the Lemma and the proof in a more convenient manner (with a menu called in French "dérouler" for the proof). How can I do that ?
• What is the correspondence in Wikipedia for the LaTeX environment \begin{align} \end{align} ??? Sometimes I have to define applications and I don't know how to put them in a beautiful manner.

Thanks for help !

Zadigus (talk) 11:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm gonna leave the {{helpme}} above, but answer the first question as that's all I can with my knowledge. Use the [edit this page] tab at the top of the page Gauss. Add a very brief bit about how Lemme de gauss relates to Gauss, along with a link. Use Square brackets around links like this: [[Gauss]] [[Lemme de gauss]] to make links, and remember CaSe DoEs CoUnT!!. Have fun! Deon555 (talk) 11:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• Also please note that we already have articles on Gauss's lemma (number theory) and Gauss's lemma (polynomial) - is this the same as one of those, or is it a third Gauss' Lemma? JohnCD (talk) 11:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

We already have a disambiguation page Gauss's lemma which has Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry) as a redlink. Lemme de gauss should be translated into English and moved to Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry). Algebraist 11:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Are you planning to translate it? I could help, if you like. Where did you get it -- from the French Wikipedia? Or did you write it yourself? If you got it from somewhere, you should say where. --Coppertwig (talk) 13:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, it might be useful to place a copy of this article on the French Wikipedia, if they don't already have one like that. (With a more specific name similar to that suggested by Algebraist). I looked around a bit and didn't find one. I'm not sure if this article has anything to do with it: fr:Courbure de Gauss --Coppertwig (talk) 13:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Help me (further ...)

• I do not know how to change the title; I would have written Lemme de Gauss (case sensitive !).
• I have changed the page http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me_de_Gauss, but the link to my page is not yet ok (because the name is not correct probably).
• The present Lemme de Gauss is another one which was not on Wikipedia; it comes from Riemannian geometry. I have written this article myself. The proof comes from the book of Do Carmo and I have explained it a little bit. I have made some pictures, which might be very useful, but I don't know how to put them here.
• I am ok with you, this page must be translated; I don't know if I will have time for this, actually. I will try to take time for this. Any help is welcome; I speak French, and I am not very good in English.
• the article fr:Courbure de Gauss is a little bit related to Riemannian geometry, but it has nothing to do with this one ...

Some Answers

• First and foremost please double check that the article you are working on is not a duplicate of any articles or information already on the Gauss disambiguation page. I would hate for all your hard effort to be wasted on a duplicate article that is quickly deleted. That's ok, nobody told us anything about this lemma.
• For information about converting your PDF's to a good format, see Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload Most of my pictures are not in the PDF format, but in the PDF_T format (PDFTex, from Xfig). I could capture these images, but probably the quality won't be great.
• I do not understand your 3rd question, could you please rephrase... The third question is not a question.
• For help with displaying of mathematical formulas on wikipedia, please see Help:Displaying a formula ok
• For re-naming the page, first read Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you need to change the title of the page, you should follow the instructions at Help:Moving a page ok.
• I am not sure what you are trying to do on the french wikipedia. If you are trying to create a link between these two wiki's, please see Help:Interlanguage links. Yes I am and my first idea was to put this article in the French wikipedia; however, I am registered on the English one, and I didn't know that there were such problems (i.e. registered on the English wikipedia does not involve I am registered in the French wikipedia; I cannot login in the latter with my login and passwords of the former !!! That's quite weird, isn't it ?)
• To upload pictures, see WP:UPLOAD. ok
• If you need help translating, take a look at Wikipedia:Translation ok

I hope this helped. If you need more help, feel free to post here or on my talk page. Happy editing! --omtay38 16:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I have changed the title

I have "moved" the page, i.e. changed its title, to Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry) which is the correct title for the English Wikipedia. I will see what I can do about translation, but I will do that in one of my user pages, leaving the article page untouched, so that anyone else can also work on it. When I have something for you to look at, I will leave a message here for you with a link to the page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Improving display of formulae

Some of the simpler <math> formulae were displaying much smaller than the others. I have found out why and fixed it - explanation on the article's talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Draft translation into English

I have done a draft translation into English of Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry) which you can find in one of my user pages here. I suggest we keep it there until people feel it is good enough to replace the actual article. Please check it with great care, and leave any comments at the head of the page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)