User talk:Areil123~enwikibooks

Hello Areil123, welcome to wikibooks! I see that you and several other new users have been working on the The Computer Revolution book. Is this part of some kind of class or project? If so, who is in charge?

Anyway, my name is Whiteknight, and I am a wikibookian. I would be willing to help you and your friends if you would like. Feel free to send me a message on my user talk page if you need anything. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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Good luck!. --Az1568 03:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Help and Etiquette
I'm glad to hear about your project, wikibooks has hosted a number of collaborative teaching projects, such as Human Physiology, CPCN, and XML. The The Computer Revolution book is definately in need of some love and care, so I am happy that your class is working on it.

As to etiquette (and I am sure i'm spelling that incorrectly), there isn't much to worry about, so long as your students are nice. If you need help, we have a (mostly complete) help book available, to learn all the specifics about wikitext markup, page editing, etc. If you or anybody in your class need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask me anything. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Page moves
Hello Areil, how are things going?

I see that you've been moving some pages around, and while I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I have to inform you that you are moving them wrong. When you move a page, you should specify the destination address in "wikistyle", not as a URL. For instance, you should move pages to:

The Computer Revolution/introduction/effect on society/health

and not to:

Http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The Computer Revolution/introduction/effect on society/health

I will fix the pages that you have already moved for you. If you have any questions, please let me know. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 13:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * You can make a link to a local page by using two square brackets: The Computer Revolution/introduction/effect on society/health makes: The Computer Revolution/introduction/effect on society/health.


 * And you can rename a link to whatever you want it to be: HEALTH makes: HEALTH.


 * If you want to make a sub-page off a given page, you can just say: /sub page/, and the software will automatically make the link as if you had typed User:Areil123/sub page/. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 21:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Page Move Corrections
I fixed your bad page moves. When you move a page, DO NOT MOVE IT TO "http://..." This is wrong. Instead, just move it to the name of the page you want. For instance, do not move a page to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The Computer Revolution/page, instead, move it to "The Computer Revolution/page". The server will automatically fill in the rest.

If you have any more questions, let me know. If you want a page moved, and you aren't sure how to do it correctly, send me a message, and I will do it for you. Also, when you leave a comment somewhere, you can sign your name to it by typing "~" (four tildes). The server will automaticall replace that with your username. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Your Book
Sorry It has taken me so long to reply to you, I've been very busy lately. I have seen your book, and with the exception of a few problems with page links, the book looks good. I would like to point you to a page that the community and I have been writing: Guidelines for class projects. This is just a draft now, but I hope that you can learn things from it, and that eventually you can add your thoughts to it as well. Please let me know if you need anything else. Good luck with your project. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 03:33, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * By the way, we have also started a page at List of class projects, where you can list your class project, make comments about it, and ask for help. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 03:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Using images from Commons
G'day, I just found your local copy of a mitochondria image from Commons, Image:Diagram of a human mitochondrion.svg. When an image is hosted on Commons, you can use it directly within your Wikibook without having to upload it here. Just put in the image name as if it was a local image, and the wiki software will do the rest for you. Webaware talk 06:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Realpedia
This book is up for deletion at WB:VFD. Since you're the primary contributor, please comment and vote on it's deletion.  – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 18:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I see that you're planning on using this for your family's homeschooling. But what is the book supposed to be? If it's going to be a random collection of facts (which is what it is now... albeit only 2 of them), then that's not a textbook. Wikibooks is for textbooks; if you need help to determine whether Realpedia is going to fit within our project's scope, please ask.
 * Please lay out the scope of the book and at least a rudimentary outline so we know whether to delete it (if outside project scope) or not. The main issue is not the lack of content, but rather that there is no organization, no indication that it will be developed into a textbook and no indication of planning. Just because you're going to fill it with content doesn't mean we can keep it here.  – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 12:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Everything is on-topic someplace. The trick is finding that place.
 * I'm pretty sure that, contrary to popular belief, most books are written by collecting a bunch of random information that the author is interested in. Only afterward does the author shuffle the order of that information, and cut out things that don't seem to "fit" (saving them for the next book), to give the appearance of organization.
 * If, like most book authors, you can't create a rough draft of an outline ahead of time, then wikibooks is not the best place to start writing -- there are lots of other places that are better places to begin incubate your "realpedia". I found it pretty easy to create a new wiki on one of the free wiki hosts (Wiki_Science/How_to_start_a_Wiki). Perhaps you could consider creating a new wiki on one of those free hosts, and temporarily moving "realpedia" there. Later once you've filled it out a bit and have an outline, you could move some or all of it back to Wikibooks (if it's a book) or some other more appropriate wiki.
 * Is there any way I can help? --DavidCary 05:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * p.s. I'm also encouraging all homeschoolers to check out http://nanowrimo.org/ . --DavidCary 05:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Areil123. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Areil123~enwikibooks that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 22:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:34, 19 April 2015 (UTC)