User talk:Hedwig0407~enwikibooks

If you want to reach me, definitely you're on the right place, my talk. You could give suggestions or anything about the Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter. As in my observation, I'm the only one very active contributing to the Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter so far. So just post here anything for me about the Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter.

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Hi, I'm the main editor at the Muggles' Guide and I've noticed that you're doing a lot of editing recently. In order to have a cohesive, standardized book, we all conform to some basic principles that were laid out. Please see here regarding much of that if you didn't know. I just want to make sure that you know how to format things since you're creating a lot of new pages. You're doing great work so far and I'm glad users are adding new content nowadays since most of my time is spent cleaning up and formatting a lot of the junk people throw all over the place. Specifically, notice changes like turning into. Small things that work either way, yes, but if we're creating a lot of new pages (like you with the book chapters) it doesn't hurt to use the official link. Please see more template links in the project standards section. Thanks! -Matt 14:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, the Cover page is meant to be like a book cover. Once enough content gets in the book, I will be integrating it into a print version. If you would like to make a cover image, that would be great. I'd like for the text that is currently on the page still be included, whether within the image or not. Whatever you'd like to add though, go for it (as long as you're not going against copyright or anything). -Matt 16:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * As in, the text already on the page should be in the image or around the image. I like a nice full-page cover like here. You can integrate the text on the page into one big image, or have a mix of both text and graphics. -Matt 16:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The picture looks pretty good. Maybe use a color not as powerful as that shade of green? You can probably put the "at Wikibooks ..." text below the image right into the image as well. As far as character images are concerned, those really aren't a part of the goals of the book. The book is about analysis and isn't a Harry Potter encyclopedia. I don't think fan-like content such as actor pictures is appropriate here. -Matt 12:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Please make sure you keep using the templates on all pages in the Guide. I noticed pages like Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dumbledore's Army don't conform like Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter does. -Matt 12:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm beginning to notice that this is a larger problem than just creating a few pages without templating. Please see here and look over the project standards as well as the VfD discussions. A lot of the pages you are adding are very encyclopedia-like and we absolutely can't have that here. Pages for the Houses and Black family are much too fact-based and aren't going towards the book goals really. If we begin to add content like this, the book risks deletion as a whole since it won't fit the Wikibooks project. Wikipedia is a much different place than Wikibooks. -Matt 12:28, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Please notice the changes I've been making this morning via Special:Contributions/Withinfocus to see where I've moved several of the pages you've created. -Matt 12:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't think such a site would comply with Wikibooks. All content would need to be licensed subject to the GFDL. Please see Copyrights for the details, but taking external content will most likely be a no-go. Personally, I'd much rather an in-house group of writers create the chapter summaries since that will lead those writers to add to the other sections of the page like the analysis which is far more important. I don't see value in copying summaries that someone could get elsewhere. We'd deliver a lot more quality by keeping the work here. -Matt 13:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I hope you'll forgive me taking a moment to pick your brain. I wrote the initial entry on the Fidelius charm, and at that time I recorded that it was first mentioned in CoS... but now I see that the first real description is in PoA, so I'm thinking that I may have pulled that first citation out of thin air. Can you confirm that secret-keepers or the Fidelius charm are mentioned in CoS? If you can't confirm it, I will change the reference to be PoA only. Thanks... Chazz 07:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

In a project such as this, page management must be done very carefully. An editor needs to be especially aware of what the project standards are when editing. Creating tons of stub pages is not helpful and makes the project more difficult to manage. Spare facts and small additions are great, but by creating many pages and disrupting organization (especially with something regarding Major Events and Places which was a ton of cleanup) I need to check over edits. This is a book for older children and yound adults, and the quality must be kept high and easy to understand for them. Now that Chazz and Jokes are here this management is much easier, but at the initial time of all this massive and unchecked work the project was quite scattered. It's the worst when a new page is created without full plans to develop it, and that's what has bothered me here. -within focus 16:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, I apologize if you were offended from such a comment but I usually like to keep things straightforward. Looking above I can see the many instances where I tried to discuss all these quality issues. -within focus 20:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

invitation of a wikibook study
Hi Hedwig0407,

I'm inkeys, a doctoral student at Indiana University. I'm currently working on a Wikibook study about online authors' experiences and perceptions with my advisor. I read your wikibook of Muggle's guide to Harry Potter. It's very interesting and impressive. We would like to learn more from your experience. If you would like to participate in the case study, please contact me by email (cl17@indiana.edu) or leave a message. I'm attaching the formal invitation below.

This is an invitation to participate in a case study related to the Wikibook project. The purpose of the study is to understand online authors’ self-efficacy, which involves the motivation to write a Wikibook, beliefs regarding one’s knowledge of the topic, previous experience and success in writing a Wikibook, and ability to help coordinate the Wikibook project and interact with other authors. If you agree to participate in this particular case study, please reply to this email (or cl17@indiana.edu) and we will schedule a one hour interview with you at your convenience by phone or by email. Your responses will be anonymous.

Your input to this project is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and consideration, inkeys

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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