User talk:Suomipoika~enwikibooks

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Welcome to Wikibooks, Suomipoika!

File uploads
Hi Suomipoika. I noticed your file uploads. Sound-bytes are great resources for language textbooks. In case you weren't aware of it, I just wanted to bring to your attention that free license content can also be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons where it becomes transparently available across all Wikimedia projects (such as Wikibooks and our sister project Wikipedia). Happy editing. --Swift (talk) 12:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your reminder about the audio files. Usually I upload to Commons and there are quite a few of my uploads already. I actually assumed that when I am editing a page and adding a still non-existing media file and then click on the link, that it would offer me to create the non-existing content under commons, but not wikibooks. For example, if I want to make the file behind test only (help·info) to work by just clicking the link, the file would be uploaded here. Similarly I have uploaded tens of files to Russian wikipedia for a Finnish course there. I actually wanted to transfer them to commons but don't know how to do it automatically without having to manually re-submit each file. Do you know whether there is an easier way to do that? Suomipoika (talk) 23:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, I see. I guess the naming convention should have been a hint! If you want to use red-links to upload files, I guess you can replace "en.wikibooks" with "commons.wikimedia" after clicking on the link. Not terribly user-friendly, I'll admit.
 * I've never used it, but it seems that the Move-to-commons assistant is your friend. After moving them over, you can tag them with and an admin will get around to deleting the local copy. --Swift (talk) 02:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

A book on books
You may also have come across this already, but seeing how you're enthusiastic about language education, I figured I'd leave you a link to the textbook on Authoring Foreign Language Textbooks. I stitched this together from a couple of incomplete, single-page books on the subject. It's still in poor shape, but still of some use for ideas, and with some love and care might turn into a great resource. --Swift (talk) 02:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Finnish
This book seems to have preceded the current naming policy which stipulates that book pages be gathered into sub-pages (Finnish/Aakkoset rather than Finnish:Aakkoset or something similar). Many of the links point to the old pages with the "colon" convention which redirect to the new. It might be a good idea to update these as you go, or even make a bot run on them to fix it.

The Manual of Style recommends placing the cover page on a sub-page and rather place the main contents on the main page. I've been slowly changing some of the abandoned language textbooks to use this form. Let me know if you'd like help on either of these. --Swift (talk) 02:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for all the good advice and tips above! The move to commons assistant seems to be a little bit helpful when moving from en.wikibooks to commons. However it can't help with ru.wikibooks files, because at the time I was uploading I did not give any licensing information. But transferring them manually won't be that big job either. Even with the commons assistant you still need to do the upload manually. The assistant just helps with retrieving the information. Suomipoika (talk) 10:00, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You're welcome! How many files are we talking about here? If this is a question about hours of work, you might want to have a look at commons:Commons:Bots and commons:Commons:Tools/Commonist for something to save you some time. --Swift (talk) 03:19, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Now, when I counted them, only about 100 and I have already transferred one third of them. Not an overwhelming task at all to do just manually. Though Commons tools are still interesting! Suomipoika (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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