Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2008/December

Vandalism
Just wanted to report repeated vandalism by User:Gotyhy:. --Martin Kraus (talk) 11:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Would any administrator please be so kind and block user Gotyhy? Thanks. --Martin Kraus (talk) 13:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. I placed a permanent block on the account (all edits were vandalism). --Jomegat (talk) 13:30, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Clojure_Programming "Flagged Rev"
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming Has been given a "Flagged Rev" which is preventing subsequent changes from being displayed. This page is being improved from quite a wide community so this is undesirable. Can the flag be removed?

Timothypratley (talk) 00:55, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, that page's latest version is sighted. Furthermore, you can see the draft version at any time - sighted or quality versions are shown by default for anonymous visitors only. If that's not the case, then something is wrong. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 01:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Mike! What is the process for having a version 'sighted'? The concern from the Clojure contributors is that if there is a significant delay updating the changes then it reduces the value of the wiki, as additions/changes are regular. It seems that the versions get sighted quite quickly automatically, so perhaps this fear is unfounded. What are the requirements to become a 'sighter' (ie: so member of the Clojure community could 'sight' the pages)? Also in this case if we were to have sub pages could they be free of the review process to some extent - would this be desirable?

Timothypratley (talk) 01:36, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * All editors meeting the requirements will be automatically promoted by the system. It requires a certain number of edits, your account must be 30 days old, you must have an email confirmed in Special:Preferences, etc. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 05:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the clarification Timothypratley (talk) 05:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * "Sighting" basically is a way to review the content of a page, and make sure that nonsense and vandalism aren't being shown to new readers. People with +editor permission can review a page. You can request this permission at WB:RFA. Also, if you don't want to request it, the system will give it to you automatically after a certain amount of time (or, it should, as Mike pointed out). This tool is not a problem and it's not a big deal, so any active contributors who want it should feel free to request it. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 20:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, this is still being a problem for us: The latest sighted revision (list all) was approved on 25 November 2008. 3 changes need review. (+/-) I asked on that page previously for permission, but was told it is not usually given out until the requirements are automatically met. Is there any way for me to tell how close I am to the requirements, or what I need to do to meet them? Timothypratley (talk) 00:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Requirements are listed on Reviewers. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 04:29, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

content.css
Hi, I've posted a message on User_talk:Whiteknight about fixing the common.css file to allow use of the TOClimit functionality in tables of contents. I guess Whiteknight is busy with other wikibooks stuff, so maybe there is another admin out there who can help? I've also summarised the problem on the common.css talk page.

Cheers HYanWong (talk) 18:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅. Sorry to have ignored you for so long! I have been busy but I shouldn't have put this off for so long. I've made the change now, refresh your browser and make sure it works the way you expect. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 01:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Fantastic. This now works. Thanks HYanWong (talk) 13:42, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Book Rename
This is probably the best place to ask someone that has a bot that can perform book renames, so I'll advance Computer programming for renaming to Computer Programming, the book has already been using the latter name as a category for all the pages (I've been fixing some) and since Categories have been mostly used only the first letter in upper case this will make it conform, I've not seen any special activity on the book recently, but posting a 7 days warning on the talk page wouldn't harm if any one can and is willing do the rename please consider that... --Panic (talk) 01:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. A bot isn't required to perform this task. Any administrator can do it now. --dark lama  01:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)