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Some Development Questions (open)
Joe encouraged me to post my questions on the "main talk page". Hopefully, I post it on the right place.

I am the developer of the site Math Harbour (young GNU project) that developes search engines at Mathematics. You can find it here http://sites.google.com/site/mathharbour/, but it will soon have the domain "mathharbour.com". I will write more about the type of the GNU-license, when the site gets better integrated. Recommendations are welcome.

'''A summary of my questions: '''

1. Why can not CSE googlebot find most definitions in Proof Wiki? Please, test the term "dimension" in the Define -engine (http://sites.google.com/site/mathharbour), and then test the term "bijection". The latter term only works.

2. Can I embed your site without any modification with iFrames? An example is http://sites.google.com/site/proofmath/. Please, notice that I am not stealing anything, Proof Wiki only gets more traffic and I think it is a good thing.

3. If Math Harbour have your site embedded, I hope you can embed some of its search engines. I will, of course, make them much better if you want them. The Define Math and Proof Math -engines would fit to Proof Wiki (particularly if problem in 1st Question can be fixed).

 - My original post to Joe

''Firstly, I want to thank for your great service. I have three questions. One question is related to Google CSE. The other is related to the GNU license. The third is related to the sites.

I have developed some engines, and one of the engines index some of your definitions: please, search for "bijection" in

* http://sites.google.com/site/mathharbour/Search-Engines/define-math

I have one problem. Google CSEs can find only the first page of your definitions even though the index is like:

* http://www.proofwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Definitions&from=H * ...   * http://www.proofwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Definitions&from=Z

1. Why does it not work?

The reason for the other question to make 100% that my site can embed your site in iFrame (without any modification). To make my question clearer, you can see here an example:

* http://sites.google.com/site/mathharbour/Search-Engines/math-proof

I will take it immediately away if it somehow endangers the license. If I can understand it right, it should not.

2. Can I embed your site without any modification with iFrames to my site? Proof Wiki benefit from the traffic of Math Harbour.

Finally, I believe your site would benefit from the engines. I am developing them openly, free for contributions, under GNU-license. I will soon include more about the topic to the site. If you allow me to embed your site in iFrames, I am ready to customise engines to your site so you can embed it to your site. Alternatively, Google offers some Ajax-code so you do not necessarily need iFrames.

3. What kind of engines your site would like to have?

Please, do not hesitate to contact me. --Heooo

I don't initially foresee a problem with with having ProoWiki pages embedded, the whole page is there so I don't think it will violate the license. --Joe (talk) 18:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Change of Image namespace
The new version of MediaWiki has changed the namespace Image to File. Though it is still backward compatible, I think we should begin to use File:filename.ext when calling an image. --Joe (talk) 14:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

A Question about Random Pages
I was unable to contact Joe by email. Hence, I will publicly ask.

The "Random proof" is a very cool feature. Pages, such as "random proof in algebra", "random proof in logic" and "random proof in graph theory", would be useful as well. So are there more random pages? Is it possible to get them more?

I was talking to Heooo via email, and we may be working towards this idea, implementing new search engines on ProofWiki. --Joe (talk) 20:08, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The ProofWiki look (open)
I'm working on editing the look of the site so that we don't look exactly like Wikipedia. This is what I've been working on so far if you want to take a look at it tell me what you think (likes and dislikes). All you have to do is copy what I have and paste it into you own page at User:username/monobook.css (You may have to clear your cache: Ctrl+Shift+r in firefox I think). Any feedback would be great. I've already made some small changes to the main one for ProofWiki such as rounding the edges on the boxes. --Joe (talk) 19:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm immediately noticing two things: red (i.e. nonexistent) links on the top bar (discussion, delete, etc) are really hard to read, and the gaps in some places seem pretty big, especially between the top link bar and the page title. Also, fyi, I think something you did overrode my theme selection (I had changed it in preferences). I'm trying out the one you made, so I don't know if I can change back/what your modifications would do to other themes, but I thought you should know. --Cynic (talk) 03:54, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I fixed it so that you can change you theme! The monobook.css only effects the monobook skin (which is the site default for new users). --Joe (talk) 20:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmm ... not sure I like orange much, I'm more of a purple man. But hey, it ain't wikipedia (not necessarily either a bad or good thing) and it looks clean and neat. Nice one. May play with the colors on my own monobook.css. --Matt Westwood 21:40, 18 June 2009 (UTC)