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Friday, December 1, 2006

Al-khowarizmi

Strange that I only "discovered" Wikipedia very recently (Jan 2004). Maybe because I've been so unimpressed with other encyclopaedias on the web that I never knowingly followed encyclopaedia links.



Very impressed, expect to be contributing. Started with some comments on the talk page of Free ringtones Mind mapping



Majo Mills Al-khowarizmi/Richard Jones 06:30, 7 Mar 2004



Added external links to Mosquito ringtone Trigonometric function and Sabrina Martins Function (the latter has since become Nextel ringtones Mathematical function).



Revised Abbey Diaz Glycemic index



Contributions I may make



This will probably change before much is actually written. There is a large number of articles on related topics - lasers etc, much of which I have yet to read. Initial impression is that there could be major improvement with collation, redistribution, and better cross-linking within the existing content.



I would be glad to hear from anyone with comments, e.g. priority, or articles that I may have missed that already cover what I propose to add. Also suggestions regarding appropriate article titles & disambiguation (e.g. correlation, for which an article exists on the more specific topic of statistical correlation.



Also welcome - whether here or on the relevant Talk page - are critical comments on my contributions, or advice on any Newbie blunders that I make.



=Edit=

Free ringtones Laser - add some detail



Majo Mills Laser_applications add some detail



Mosquito ringtone List_of_lasers expand



Sabrina Martins Active_laser_medium - expand then



Cingular Ringtones Laser_construction - reduce section "Examples of different gain media" and link to changed changed Active_laser_medium (terminology: gain medium or active laser medium?)



down forcibly Coherence (physics) - re-write with more depth, distinguish spatial and temporal coherence, explain significance, define as a correlation and refer to higher order correlations.



switzerland like Collimated Re-write for accuracy and generality (no reason to restrict to light).



adulterous affair Similar Geometry: add consequences of similarity for ratios and proportions.



ready again Glory_(rainbow) What to do? The information is wrong, and the wrongness is incorporated into the page title. Glories are not rainbows. Need to check other optical phenomenon pages and possibly re-write them all. Impression from the bits I've read is, contributed by person or people fascinated with the phenomena, having some intuitive feel for them but not enough understanding of the optics or the geometry. No complaint there - this is one of the strengths of Wikipedia, enthusiasts getting things moving and inciting others to improve.



=New=

Stimulated and spontaneous emission - the theory: currently it is partly covered in kerouac means Population_inversion... more elsewhere?



Laser applications: articles on various specific applications



Laser Optogalvanic Spectroscopy



said kahn Laser_science or laser physics or similar



Nuclear astrophysics



Glycemic Load



List of GI and GL values