Examples section on wiki (was Solving an equation with integral)

On 07/19/2012 07:46 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On 7/19/12 4:32 AM, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
>> Michele Minelli<micheleminelli1 at gmail.com>  writes:
...
>>> How can I solve that equation?
>>> Thank you very much.
>> Here's a quick attempt. First note that for symbolic calculations like
>> integration etc., Maxima automatically rationalizes its arguments. Since
>> the numbers then come out horrible, let's do it by hand:
>
> I think this is a nicely done example of how to get maxima to do what
> you want when maxima can't do it by itself.
>
> I think having examples like this on the wiki would be very nice too.  I
> always learn a lot from examples like this, and such examples are easier
> for me to find on a wiki than on a mailing list with lots of other
> discussions.

Agreed, nicely done, and nicely explained. I definitely have learned a 
lot by similar examples from the mailing list, but would love to see a 
section on the wiki with examples of this sort preferably with a nice 
easy-to-find link from the wiki front page to the examples section.

As a suggestion, perhaps a page that lists links to examples grouped by 
"type" (algebra, calculus, pattern matching, factoring, whatever) and 
only one or two examples on a page, so that any given example can be 
easily followed.

I would be willing to spend a little time setting this up if people were 
willing to post links to similar examples from the maxima mailing list 
archives here in this thread.