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Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! D. Matt Innis 17:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Some ideas for contributions

Hi Richard, welcome aboard CZ. Matt has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for icon documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):

In order to find articles dealing with similar topics, it's also worth looking at the Related Article subpages of such an article.

Finally, in case you are involved in homework assignments, please consider doing so via Eduzendium articles.

Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, Daniel Mietchen 10:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I have started pages on RSA, Alan Turing and various related things but since I'm an amateur cryptographer rather than a professional mathematician, you could almost certainly improve them. Sandy Harris 04:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for those. Initially, I'm planning to look at primality tests, pseudoprimes; sieve methods; Diophantine equations; elliptic curves. Richard Pinch 06:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Thanks for joining us! Nice to see another mathematician around! --Larry Sanger 22:31, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks -- looking forward to it. Richard Pinch 22:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
These small articles you are bringing over from wikipedia are excellent, nice work. Chris Day 21:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks -- I find that I contributed 282 articles (not all mathematics) to WP before I got disillusioned ... Richard Pinch 22:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)