Hi, I'm a mechanical engineer and I've been trying online calculations. I'd like the ability to integrate calculators directly into wikipedia. I think this live attribute would be a great asset to engineers. I put an example up at http://www.novanumeric.com/wiki/index.php/Quadratic_Formula I did that using an iframe though. Is there a better to implement this?
Regards, Jeff Brubaker
There is this extension, which seems to be designed to do what you're asking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CalcII
However, it is quite old and probably in need of updating. Nonetheless, you can give it a try to see if it works for you. Also, if you're inclined to do so, you could get involved in updating and maintaining the extension. I agree, it would be a very nice thing to have for MediaWiki.
Jeff Brubaker wrote:
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineer and I've been trying online calculations. I'd like the ability to integrate calculators directly into wikipedia. I think this live attribute would be a great asset to engineers. I put an example up at http://www.novanumeric.com/wiki/index.php/Quadratic_Formula I did that using an iframe though. Is there a better to implement this?
Regards, Jeff Brubaker
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On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 22:36 -0800, badon wrote:
There is this extension, which seems to be designed to do what you're asking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CalcII
However, it is quite old and probably in need of updating. Nonetheless, you can give it a try to see if it works for you. Also, if you're inclined to do so, you could get involved in updating and maintaining the extension. I agree, it would be a very nice thing to have for MediaWiki.
Jeff Brubaker wrote:
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineer and I've been trying online calculations. I'd like the ability to integrate calculators directly into wikipedia. I think this live attribute would be a great asset to engineers. I put an example up at http://www.novanumeric.com/wiki/index.php/Quadratic_Formula I did that using an iframe though. Is there a better to implement this?
Regards, Jeff Brubaker
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------------------------- I too would have an interest in something like this as well. I have a site that we are building that is for folks interested in cutting edge physics. This might provide an interesting tool for us as well. Perhaps something that would link into a real mathematics system even. I,m going to look into this also. Thanks for the link & the idea. frosty
That is one of the neatest ideas I have heard in a while. If you make an extension, please consider making it general enough that many different math systems can be plugged into it. My vote is for mathematica, but there are many, many others - including a few free and open source packages. Here's a good starting point for finding them all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_software
John W. Foster-2 wrote:
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 22:36 -0800, badon wrote:
There is this extension, which seems to be designed to do what you're asking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CalcII
However, it is quite old and probably in need of updating. Nonetheless, you can give it a try to see if it works for you. Also, if you're inclined to do so, you could get involved in updating and maintaining the extension. I agree, it would be a very nice thing to have for MediaWiki.
Jeff Brubaker wrote:
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineer and I've been trying online calculations. I'd like the ability to integrate calculators directly into wikipedia. I think this live attribute would be a great asset to engineers. I put an example up at http://www.novanumeric.com/wiki/index.php/Quadratic_Formula I did that using an iframe though. Is there a better to implement this?
Regards, Jeff Brubaker
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I too would have an interest in something like this as well. I have a site that we are building that is for folks interested in cutting edge physics. This might provide an interesting tool for us as well. Perhaps something that would link into a real mathematics system even. I,m going to look into this also. Thanks for the link & the idea. frosty
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