User talk:Strange quark/2017

Welcome, Strange quark!

If you have any questions, you can ask in the assistance reading room or possibly contact me personally. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Book categories
Hi! I saw you've been moving some book categories from the old naming scheme to the new, and thought I'd mention some things to keep in mind about that operation. Which is why it's all a massive task, renaming all the book categories to use the new naming convention. I did think about waiting to even start the operation until it was feasible to write semi-automated tools for doing things like that, but who knows how many months or years it'll take to get the semi-automation up to that level of sophistication? Cheers. :-) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:03, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Moving a category doesn't immediately move the pages in it. Many &mdash; but by no means all &mdash; of our book pages are categorized using templates that automatically detect the name of the book category and put the pages in it; and those templates do use the new naming scheme (with prefix  ) unless the new name doesn't exist and the old one does; but even so, the wiki software maintains a deep cache of category contents that isn't updated very often.  So you can look at the book page and it'll say it's in the newly renamed book category, but the newly renamed book category won't list it, and the old category will.  I think there's a system message somewhere that claims it might take up to a month for the wiki software to move the page from one category listing to the other.  It's possible to force the wiki software to update its listing of a page by doing a null edit: open an edit window for the page, and just save it without making any change.  Which is okay for a very small book, but not practical when dealing with something like the Chess book (I renamed the book category for that one recently), which has about a thousand pages.
 * Not all pages use those "smart" templates; there are some pages that are hard-coded to the old book category name, either directly or though using a set of templates that don't detect the name of the book category. So even if you wait a month, some pages will never get relisted without manual intervention (and some careful thought, in some cases).
 * Some book categories have subcategories, and those have to be dealt with. That can get quite complicated.  There's a convention that a subcategory of a book category should have the name of the book category followed by a slash and a suffix name, and those have to be moved with the book category; as an admin, the wiki software lets me move a page along with all its subpages (up to 500 subpages) automatically, which makes that a bit easier but then one has to very carefully chase down all the pages in those subcats to make sure they all get recat'd properly.  Subcats using that naming convention are automatically supported by BookCat.  The ones that don't use that convention, one has to either rename to use the convention (requiring great care indeed) or modify to use /subcat to put it in its parent category.

Hypnosis
I restored a reversal you did on an edit on that work. I guess you made an error as I did a spot check on all your previous edits and all seem fine. Panic (discuss • contribs) 09:02, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

C Programming/C Reference/List of C functions
Hello, the problem before removing this page, is that there isn't any other list of these functions, so [//en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/C_Programming/complex.h/casinh their pages are orphan]. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:06, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Many functions, including the one you link are not in that page anyway, so they have to be tracked down manually. The functions from the old page are in C Programming/Standard library reference and C Programming/Platform Reference (except 5 non-standard redlinks which I think it's better to search and sort them later).  --Strange quark (discuss • contribs) 19:22, 28 August 2017 (UTC)