Talk:Electronic Properties of Materials

I'm working to build this book as part of the class I'm teaching.

I have the intellectual content for the book already in place.

I also understand the basic editing at Wikibooks and have read the "Using Wikibooks" book.

What I seem to lack is an understanding of the general etiquette used here. There is no documentation of this, and from what I can tell when I turn my back on the page for a week (I'm teaching class, performing research, and directing a graduate program all while trying to coordinate this textbook) the work I've put in gets deleted.

I need a space where I can work in peace and convert my scientific understanding of a subject in to a book. I'm hoping that Wikibooks is such a place.

So you know, you can find the content which I intend to digitize located here: http://brynhildr.mme.wsu.edu/~sbeckman/mse515/

As discussed here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:List_of_class_projects#Electronic_Properties_of_Materials I intend to have the students in my class digitize this content.

Scott.beckman (discuss • contribs) 21:21, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Editing This WikiBook
This book began as an OpenSource digitization of the personal notes of Scott.beckman. It is meant to become a full OpenSource textbook resource for those studying Materials Science, though many topics such as Quantum Mechanics can be useful to other disciplines as well. That said, there are a few unconventional (for WikiBooks) editing/collaboration tools here that traditional community members should be aware of. First, please note that sections below the purple 75% complete mark (as shown on the Table of Contents) are still being input from the original notes. The staging convention currently in use is:

0% - INCOMPLETE - The initial input of written notes is less than complete

25% - INCOMPLETE - The initial input of written notes is complete and input of video notes is incomplete

50% - ROUGH DRAFT - The input of all notes is completed and figures and fact-checking is impending

75% - FINAL DRAFT - All material is in place and ready for final fact-check by those with qualifications

100% - COMPLETE - No edits pending. Additional material may be added, but stage should be reduced to 75% until another fact-check can be completed

With this in mind, I ask that you don't remove certain types of content below the 75% stage mark. Items in  are considered notes between folks who are editing. Many of them look like:  "Title" (Description) and are placeholders for figures which are present in the original source notes and are planned for the final draft of the book. Our initial input of notes lacks these figures as Copyright Free materials need to be created in many of these cases, but please leave these tags in for visualization purposes. (If you would like to help with digitizing some of these figures, please reach out!) Other tags are simply notes for those with the qualifications to check and other . I understand that this task is traditionally performed with commented out material or by the "talk/discussion" page(s), but this is what works with us and I ask that y'all please bear with us until the original material is input.

If y'all have any suggestions on alternative methods, or want to help out but aren't sure how, I'd love to facilitate community participation in this. I'm personally new to the WikiBooks Community and have made numerous convention errors (like not describing these conventions prior to now) compared to the standards of the WikiBooks community.

Thank you for your time and contributions! Brienna.Hall77 (discuss • contribs) 20:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)