User talk:Atcovi/Archive 5

Hello
How are you Atcovi? Long time since I last opened Wikibooks. In fact just logged in to approve a pending review on the Internet.

Fairly busy these days, not much time for anything else.

Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 20:14, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Always a pleasure to see you turn about here at WB Leaderboard! I've been suffering from a flu for quite a while, but hopefully I'll hop back up on my feet... that's why my editing took an abrupt halt (and 'cuz of exams too, passed all the tests I've taken). What made you come back here after such a long time? And if I may ask, what are you busy with? Family, work? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:55, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hi Reuesting your comment and guidance.

Reading_room/General

Thanks and regards Mahitgar (discuss • contribs) 03:10, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Highschool ife science
Umm i need help, you see i am not able to finish all of it and as you know almost all of those pages are not even finished L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 07:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I took Life Science three years ago, so I don't know if I am of much help. But some advice: Just take it easy, don't expect to get a whole page finished every-single day, work on the project little by little [everyday]---so you'll actually have work done, and you won't overwork yourself (if you overwork yourself, you'll loose interest in the project). Hope this helps --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 11:51, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok, ill do it little by little, thanks for the advice L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 23:20, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Umm where are the original creators? Otf that book i mean. I would really love it if they gave me a epub version of their book. Jeez L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 00:10, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Which book are you referring too? If you're talking about the Life Science textbooks, they are here: "https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/High_School_Life_Science" (resources). Or the actual Wikibooks, Adrignola might be the original founder of this project. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:43, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

The original book L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 03:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, why do you need the epub version of their book (out of curiosity)? Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 11:39, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

To copy paste it on to the wiki like a true lazy barbarian i am. Jk its kinda stupid to make an entire book all over again. So ill move everything from the ebook to wikibook. Oh hey it rhymes (duh) L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 12:45, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh alright. Good to see your response. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:08, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Adrignola said that i could A: transfer the things in the book because he is busy, or B: write my own better version, but as you can see, my version is from 4 different sources, so its all different. In short its bad, very bad L3g3nd27 (discuss • contribs) 06:17, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Not really, it may have more information/different perspectives. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 13:47, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Write a new book at WikiBooks
Hi Atcovi, This is Hasive, Sysop of Bengali Wikipedia. I'm from Bangladesh and I'm an active Wikipedian since 2008. I'm an Author and my five books published in our National Book Fair and all books are published under CC license. I'm interested to write a book titled 'How to learn a language with Wikipedia' at Wikibooks. I'm interested to know about the process. Can you please help me? --Hasive (discuss • contribs) 13:06, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Welcome ! Glad to know that you are interested in helping out the English Wikibooks project!
 * There is nothing really complicated about creating a book. It's actually quite simple... Don't overcomplicate something which is, in reality, very easy to do! But, if you really want to make sure you are on the right track with making a book on Wikibooks, then check out these links: Help:Editing, Naming_policy, and Manual of Style. These links really give a good insight on how to create a high-quality book, which seems to be what you are truly aiming for (BTW, there are more links on editing on Wikibooks if you snoop around a bit more). Also, if it helps, you can look through some of the books on my page to get a clear idea of how a book should be (my books are Wikijunior books though... that will differ from your book).
 * If you would like, I am willing to look over your book to make sure it is alright with Wikibooks policy... I don't expect there will be too many problems though. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:18, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Atcovi, Thanks for your reply. Will check the links and before start to write a book spending few time to read others book. --Hasive (discuss • contribs) 13:20, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Another resource to know about is Using Wikibooks, our wikibook about writing wikibooks. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for reception...
Hello! I'd like to thank you for reception. I am glad to enjoy the wikibooks and I ant to be part of this. I am from Angola. Where are you from? Tchicucuma (discuss • contribs) 11:45, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey! Happy to have done so--we appreciate your contributions to Wikibooks!
 * Angola... very interesting country. I hope to do more research on countries such as Angola in Africa, great culture, food, and history!
 * I'm from the country of Sri Lanka, an island south of India. Ruled by the British... freed from them in 1948. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:32, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Practical DevOps for Big Data
Hi Atcovi,

You have recently rejected the modifications to a chapter I have been working on. May I inquire what were the reasons for rejecting these changes?

I need the changes in place no later than 10 of December. If any WikiBooks guidelines where violated by my edits please point me to the offending sections so that I can remedy the situation as soon as possible and revert to the latest version of the chapter.

Sincerely, Gabriel


 * Hi.. I was confused until I realized you mixed my username up with Artix Kreiger, who was actually the user that rejected your changes. But no worries, I've gone ahead and reverted the page back to your revision. I believe Artix must've made a mistake in reverting your edits to the page. Cheers, --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:23, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * My mistake. sorry. I meant to press accept. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Good luck
on the rename request. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 19:48, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the kind words. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:52, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Much thanks
to the edit on the watchlist mediawiki page. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 21:37, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:45, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

One more question from Artix
HI, I dont want to bother you much but. I was wondering if I am worth receiving the importer right. I am thinking of importing a few articles from wikiversity and dewikify it to wikibooks. For example, v:IT Fundamentals and some of its subpages could be worth an info bit. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 04:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello. Due to my busy workload with school and other works I cannot properly access if there is a true need for this right. I think its best if you ask on Requests for permissions. Thanks. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:06, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Rights
Hello, Atcovi.

I have not been regular on Wikibooks lately. I don't think it is a good idea to have the reviewer rights with huge time gap. Please remove my rights. I am not looking forward to editing any wiki any time soon, but if I ever change my mind, I would try to earn it back. For now, it is probably the best if you downgrade my rights. acagastya 💭 21:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * side note; why the submit button says "Publish changes" instead of "save". A non-reviewer can not "publish" the book, it needs to be peer reviewed, right? acagastya 💭 21:03, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * As for the request, ✅.


 * As for the side note: Yes, what you have said is technically correct. I think of "publish" as making their edits to the general public, which yes, it is made to the general public although the edits need to be reviewed. Save/publish... err... long discussion, really. With other wikimedia wikis: At the German Wikipedia, we use the word "publish" (german translation: veröffentlichen), see this for dictionary-entry. This is the same for the English Wikipedia. Now... on the terms of wikibooks, the German wikibooks does the same, just like we do it here....


 * I have never really seen a discussion or argument on whether we should change "publish" to "save". What's the difference, really? Were there discussions about this issue in the past? If so, what was the outcome?


 * Hope you see what I mean here. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:16, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * For Wikipedia, they do not follow review model; and I don't know about German Wikibooks; but there was a discussion for Wikinews; enwn and eswn— they had the discussion, and Pi zero would be the best to discuss about this (and what happened on enwn) acagastya 💭 21:41, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Not entirely true... The German wikipedia follows a review model... I'm autoreviewed there, as proof (and you can check the recent changes). The German wiktionary also follows a review model and they use the word I described above.


 * If Pi zero's input, then it shall be requested @Pi zero. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:45, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * &lt;dropping in, briefly&gt; It's a bit fascinating to me how many different approaches there are to review. En.wn mainspace has the most stringent approach I know of, while other namespaces there are a bit less intense; here on en.wb there are two different approaches, one in Wikijunior and another in other reviewed namespaces.  I have limited, second-hand knowledge of de.wp, but my impression is that it's different from all of the aforementioned, though perhaps most philosophically similar to our Wikijunior namespace.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * the word "publish" was introduced recently in a technical change. please read this. Thanks. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:06, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Test2.wiki
Hey, would you like to get admin rights there? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:42, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No thank you. That wiki is quite useless to me. Thanks for the offer. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:48, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Fyi,
For the next month, I'll work on Special:PendingChanges. Its backlogged to 10 months (March 2017).

Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:18, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Awesome. I need some help on that. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I'll start w ith the older ones. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 03:16, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Message from Giuliano Casale
Hi Atcovi

I am the joint coordinator of this book. I noticed the undo of our changes that occurred yesterday. We are making a change to the initial page to move out Preface and TOC elsewhere. Otherwise the PressPedia service does not work correctly, it prints the book with two TOCs and the preface is misplaced. I will check later today this, thanks.

Giuliano Casale
 * understood. so what should be my course of action if I see it in pending changes ?Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * As far as I know... since this user provided an explanation for his actions, accepting them would suffice. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:16, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

A bit of reflection on special:pendingchanges
There is a series of chess articles in pending changes. There are 2 editors who made an edit. The first is an IP who made some edits that I don't agree with since it is "left click" and some were malware, although I understand the articles is geared to both physical and digital players. I would have instantly reverted it

Then PokestarFan comes in and en masse adds BookCat to it. I would have to go to the history, manually reject the edits of the Ip and then accept mine. sigh. Idk. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 22:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I guess that is the action that should be executed. Though it'd be nice to have a second admin's opinion: Thoughts? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not the first time I've seen those bot-ish PokestarFan edits interfere with reverting vandalism. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , and, for references, example edits in question were this, this, and this. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 01:34, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * There are hundreds of these in the pending changes log. It's part of the reason the log is so big because each edit needs a careful review to get back to the right version. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 17:15, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the trouble
I am trying to make a user page but the filter keeps calling it "unconstructive". I don't know what it wants me to put to count as constructive. I was trying to put a small summary about me. There were no links or anything at all. 2607:FCC8:66CA:1400:5CAB:F7C4:CDC7:59A (discuss) 19:24, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Where? On your userpage? As for the talk page: I have no clue what that was all about. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:28, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It was for here. This is different from Wikipedia so I have no clue if I was actually making a page or making a user page. The filter kept popping up so I eventually just started typing in random stuff to see if anything would work at all. I clearly shouldn't have done that because that is a quick way to getting blocked, thankfully I haven't. Looking at it right now though it was actually the discussion page. Sorry for causing any problems. 2607:FCC8:66CA:1400:5CAB:F7C4:CDC7:59A (discuss) 19:39, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, now I understand. You should check Edit filter/False positives. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 22:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * This user should probably also create an account. Granted that's an ipv6 address, it's still an IP address, and those are treated differently that named user accounts. Chazz (talk) 04:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with what said. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 05:14, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

That is my take as well. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 11:59, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

waves hi
Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * waves hi back in the midst of preparing a paper ;-) --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:06, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * school? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 17:17, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Haha, yup. Got a semester left. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:49, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * oh you're in college right? i graduated in 2016. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 03:51, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Not there yet! And congrats! --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 15:35, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

User:Abd
This person is currently banned. Does this person need to keep his editor flag? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 05:04, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * &lt;dropping in&gt; My two cents' worth: the ban is apparently a Foundation action; unless some more concrete reason against Abd is given here I see no reason we should act against them (last I heard, there was no oversight of Foundation bans).  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 06:06, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Very dissapointing. But alas for your question, I don't think we need to meddle around (changing the rights) with something that doesn't bring any benefit to the project. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Interwiki links
Hi.

You didn't gave valid reasons for cancelling my edits: What is the aim of double-managing interwiki links both on pages and on wikidata ? Is it really necessary to double the workload of updating interlinks both on wikidata and local pages ?

-- ◄ David L • discuter ► 14:24, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello Please see here. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:47, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, I understand now. Thanks for reply.
 * -- ◄ David L • discuter ► 17:12, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:30, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Help with setting up a wikibook
I recently saw that you reviewed my wikibook, 9-1 Physics. Would you mind helping me to set it up properly so the: (a) chapter navigation works properly and (b) the book is displayed on the Subject:GCSE. Thank you. - Neutrinopenguin, 17:40 (GMT) 01/04/2018
 * Hi. Sorry for the late response... as per my notice I'm very busy and will probably remain in this state for a few more months... Anyways, off to your question. By chapter navigation, is it something similar to English-Chinese/Chemistry (the "Search this course" button)? As for "Subject:GCSE", what do you mean by this? Is this a category/book? EDIT: If it is Category:Subject:General Certificate of Secondary Education you are referring to as "Subject:GCSE", then it seems your book, 9-1 Physics, is already listed there.


 * Please keep up your work... I'm going to be taking Physics in a few years and apparently it's not the easiest of courses... Thanks. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:09, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks but there are some much better physics books out there (far better than anything I could write, such as the Special Relativity one on wikibooks). Anyway I meant the chapter navigation found here: US History/Preface. Someone else managed to add 9-1 Physics to that category after I wrote the message to you. Having said that, I am not sure how to properly categorise everything properly. Sorry for disrupting you, but wikibooks seems fairly desolate in terms of the public message threads, so I jumped on your name when I saw you review my contributions. Thanks for the reply! --Neutrinopenguin - 2 April 2018
 * Oh.. you can see that Template:Chapnav has instructions under "Usage" in order to use this nav. template correctly. Let me know if there is any difficulty in setting up this template, I'll respond to you as fast as I can. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 17:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, that's all the help I needed. Cya around. Good luck at whatever is keeping you busy! --Neutrinopenguin - 2 April 2018
 * Awesome. Thanks! --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

About "Chess guide for Intermediate player"
You deleted that page. But that's only a new book! I haven't wrote any part of that book so you think it's nonsense? I don't think so, and I edit it now.
 * Hi. I was writing a long explanation to your post, but my internet crashed as soon as I clicked the publish button... so all in all: I've removed the template. Thanks. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

How to create user page
I don't understand the help...but i want to create usrpage.
 * create your userpage here. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 13:37, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Atcovi
Its Artix.

Ask me anything you feel like. Whatever little thing youwant explained, im all ears. 66.128.150.14 (discuss) 15:07, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * There is nothing that comes to my mind right now about this situation (frankly, I don't know a lot about what is going on in this sockpuppet incident). I'm somewhat baffled and seemingly disappointed in what has occurred. I hope that you return back to the Wikimedia community sometime soon. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)


 * frankly, the Winterysteppe account isn't mine. I had an account back in 2010 and 2013, although I've forgotten the passwords and usernames. That ip address I am on probably has a different sockmaster. I intend to return, although not as soon as I like. 66.128.150.14 (discuss) 16:53, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I've registered another username, but won't be editing anytime soon. 70.21.184.216 (discuss) 13:46, 24 April 2018 (UTC)