User talk:Adrignola/2011/08

Linear Algebra
Hi!

I seen that you are assessing Linear Algebra and have contributed to it. It's quite good! Thank you for your contributions!

Yet, I think that I have spotted two flaws that I'd like to draw your attention to. I've posted them on the discussion pages:

Talk:Linear_Algebra/Strings, Talk:Linear Algebra/General = Particular + Homogeneous and Talk:Linear Algebra/Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.

I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at my short remarks. Wisapi (discuss • contribs) 19:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, my specialty is not mathematics. I just performed general cleanup.  I see that you've already posted on Thenub314's talk page, which is good, as that's the person I'd recommend discussing it with. – Adrignola discuss 14:12, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

High School Chemistry
Hello. It appears that you were the last person to do any editing to this particular book. I am not sure if you were heavily involved in the project or not, but it appears to be abandoned. I would like to adopt this book for a potential Wikiversity course. However, this would likely entail significant changes to the book, but I wanted to make sure that this was not a project of yours and, if not, if the original authors even have any interest anymore. Thanks! Topher385 (discuss • contribs) 00:29, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * This book is effectively abandoned. The content was copied from ck12 before they changed their license to a non-commercial variant of the Creative Commons Sharealike license, which was not compatible with Wikibooks (some discussion here on this). AS such I think you should just adopt it if you want to and change the scope as required QU TalkQu 12:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, certainly neglected. I meant to at some point take the content from File:High School Chemistry.pdf, which was downloaded prior to the license change (Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable), and transcribe it to the wiki, but it's a lot of work to do this (at least for mathematics books), and it's hard to justify the time input for the number of people that now make use of Wikibooks, especially because CK-12 is hosting a competing version that can no longer have any updates made to it reflected here.  Refactoring the book would mean that the associated PDF would not be made use of should work resume on transcription in the future.  Have you taken a look at the PDF?  Would its content and structure be useful as an additional resource?  If so, then it might be preferable to use a slightly altered title for the book you have in mind. – Adrignola discuss 14:50, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The PDF files would make great resources for a high school level textbook. Would it be preferable to use modify the existing book or simply start a new one from scratch? Topher385 (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I created the first page for High School Chemistry to show what the appearance looks like for a good import from the PDF. The mathematics books from CK-12 take all day for one lesson, in that they require writing in LaTeX and the diagrams have to be created from scratch in SVG.  I think it would be easier to start a new one from scratch since the infrastructure for this particular book is already set up for the PDF, you feel the PDF is a good resource that can be made use of, I find that transcription for the non-mathematics books goes fairly quickly, and finally because it would be good to avoid adding complexity to your efforts.  – Adrignola discuss 21:34, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Language tags double quoted?
You are making an automatic correction for the is not in a double quote, you are adding it automatically. It is not worth the resources, though, as it works with and without double quotes the same. You may make a comparison in the sandbox, if you wish. Sae1962 (discuss • contribs) 11:31, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

You continue to make these (automated?) modification to my pages by modifying the language to "language". Please stop it ! Sae1962 (discuss • contribs) 08:02, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * You are using invalid code, despite it working correctly. See HTML versus XHTML.  I am free to correct it to match the recommended syntax as described by the developer and in line with XHTML's enclosure of parameters in quotes.  We must encourage proper syntax by future contributors looking over the code and as you've described above, it results in the same output.  This shouldn't even be an issue.  Would you take just as much offense if I changed all the source tags to syntaxhighlight, because source has been deprecated for the extension because it conflicts with an XML tag? – Adrignola discuss 13:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Thenub314 vanished?
Thenub314, checkuser and 'crat here, seems to have no edits anywhere for almost two months, and hasn't responded to my email. (He's a probationary custodian at Wikiversity, and there is a question of extending the term.) Any clue? Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 02:16, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll send him an email. It's highly likely that Wikibooks will in the long run not have CheckUsers. – Adrignola discuss 12:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Are they really needed? I haven't seen a real need for a CU on WV in quite some time.... Steward requests on meta for CU seem to receive fairly rapid response....
 * How is administrative coverage on WB? do you need more help? I do see WB and WV as connected, but it's easier to create probationary custodians on WV.... I've been a probationary custodian on WV, again, since August 8, busy. No problems so far. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 01:05, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Usually it's only for spam-fighting. We don't really have the environment you see at WP where it's constant whack-a-mole and seemingly the sockpuppeteers get a kick out of harassing administrators.  As far as I'm aware, administrative coverage is adequate.  It's general participation we can always use more of. – Adrignola discuss 03:34, 22 August 2011 (UTC)