User talk:Luthinya~enwikibooks

Welcome to Wikibooks
Welcome to Wikibooks. We are a group of people working together to write textbooks and other useful original non-fiction literature, and we are glad that you have chosen to spend some time here.

There are a few things that you should be aware of here, and most important, please read some of these pages on this project:


 * What is Wikibooks
 * Welcome, newcomers
 * Help:How to start a book
 * Meta:Help:Editing (about how to use the Wiki markup language here)
 * Community Portal (a collection of useful links to various pages on the project)

I would also ask you to please look at the following discussion pages if you have any questions:


 * Staff Lounge (general Wikibooks discussions)
 * Study help desk (Q & A list for general help on Wikibooks... especially for new users)

I wanted to add that the new Wikibook that you created, Tao te Ching, is likely to be deleted unless you add some details about what you plan to accomplish here. If you want to experiment, please consider editing on Sandbox where you can make a number of changes without worrying about damaging what anybody else may be doing. The content there is regularly deleted, as it is only supposed to be for experiments for people new to this project.

If you are looking for more specific help and want a more personal touch, please consider cotacting one of the active project administrators here. All of them have shown substantial interest in this project, and are familiar enough with how things work around here that they can generally help you out when you just can't figure things out. Good luck and I hope to be seeing more of you soon. --Rob Horning 14:33, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for contacting me. I am serious in my plans for the Tao te Ching - which I hope is within the catogories stated- but I would like to state that this book is not 'original' in the normal sense of the word. It is an ancient scripture concerning the 'Tao' as a Way and the virtues and powers for following such a Way, written by the Taoist sage Lao Tzu around two thousand and five hundred years ago. Many translations have been made available in English but I would like to make yet another translation available for the use of Wikibooks, along with several small sections of interpretation aids found within the books for those who did not know Taoism well. Please tell me if this does not fit the general scheme of Wikibooks- I only made sure that it was not fiction but it is still a mystical and religious text, and as I repeat a new translation is probably not conventionally 'original'. Also I am not quite certain I understood you correctly when you said about 'adding some details' about what I plan to accomplish there- to where am I supposed to add such details, or do you mean that the page I created was simply a manifesto for the book I am about to write? This bring me to another question- Where exactly am I meant to be able to creat my book free and proper? So far all the pages I have known were article pages wholly unlike to that of proper books where one may flip at will. Where exactly are the paper, as they were, upon which I can properly write my book? I thought I would use the page I just found for the time being, but as you contacted me I think you might be able to solve my problem. And many thanks for your attention!

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If you are interested in doing a translation or simply a transcription of an existing manuscript, there is another project that is a much better place for material like this. You should consider Wikisource, which is a Wikimedia sister project to Wikibooks. On Wikisource they have more of a collaborative effort to make sure the content is added correctly, and groups in place that can help you out to verify the content you are adding, including a slightly stronger multi-lingual atmosphere than exists here on Wikibooks. If you are planning to do the translation yourself, that is certainly an admirable task and something I've attempted to do myself for some documents.

As far as adding details about what your plans on a Wikibook or similar Wikimedia page, make sure you are using the discussion pages to let other contributors know where you are going to go with a similar kind of project. This can be a simple sentance saying "I'm new here and can use some help" to a full manifesto about the book or article.

Once you have the content of the book down and would like some help to turn it into something that is more like a physical paper book like a typical textbook, make a comment on Staff Lounge for more assistance. This has been done to a few books here already, although for the most part we are busy trying to improve the content first and simply trying to get the thoughts organized. Adding the written content down in the first place is by far the most difficult part of the whole task, and once that has been added trying to make a physcial book is considerably easier.

As far as making an annotated text or study aids for a classic text, that is something that can be done on either Wikibooks or Wikisource. If it involves mainly source material, it would be worthwhile to keep most of it on Wikisource, while if the source material is minor compared to the study materials it may be used on Wikibooks. That is a judgement call you would have to make but I would recommend that the source text itself (even a translation) be kept on Wikisource if possible. The two projects are easily linked between each other and have similar policies and philosophies.

I hope that this answers some of your questions. Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. --Rob Horning 07:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I am certainly much indebted to you.

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 Luthinya. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Luthinya~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 23:27, 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) 05:13, 19 April 2015 (UTC)