Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2018/October

IP vandal
User:123.201.94.50. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:11, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Given a short block. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Help needed for publishing
To whom it may concern,

I just finished a new book in my sandbox. Now I do not know how to publish it in Wikibooks. Can someone please show me how to do it. Thank you in advance. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Michael_Striebel/sandbox

--Michael Striebel (discuss • contribs) 15:33, 1 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I can do it for you, or you can move it yourself. Please use the Move option (More>Move) in this case. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 16:31, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sharing. It looks like there is a copyrite notice at the beginning that this work belongs to Roman Striebel and is licensed under the GNU Free Document License with some restrictions on front cover, back matter, and invariant selections. Is this accurate? Are you relicensing it to CC BY SA 3.0 by publishing it here? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:48, 1 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Note that we at Wikibooks do not support GNU Free Document License anymore (new works, can't remember the date for the limitation) but we do support multi-license (if at least one is CC BY SA 3.0 compatible). In any case alone the GNU Free Document License with any restrictions on front cover, back matter, and invariant selections has always been incompatible with with us at Wikibooks.  --Panic (discuss • contribs) 18:31, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * PS: Note that it is considered that you have already published the work (even if it is under your own userspace). The only distinction is a social one, unless you state so most wikibookians will refrain to make edits/contributions on another wikibookian userspace. This extends the userspace into issues rearding copyright violations (and request for required authorizations). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 18:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@Panic. We, my brother Roman, the writer, and myself, the "publisher" contacted Wikibooks in early 2017. The text of the copyright was proposed to us in this form than. Please send us a text that you and the wikibookians would be really happy with. Thank you. --Michael Striebel (discuss • contribs) 08:49, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@ leaderboard: I messed by trying to move because I did it the first time. Can you please take my move back and move it correctly. Thank you. --Michael Striebel (discuss • contribs) 09:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

I think you did it correctly; I presume you're confused about the redirects from the sandbox? Those are automatically created. I've deleted the redirects. Also, to ping a user, use. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 09:16, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@ leaderboard: My confusion enhances. Now I do not find anymore "Business for Charities". I cannot find it in my sandbox and not in the Wikibooks. Is it gone alltogehter?

Also I do not understand (my main language being German) what it means to ping someone. --Michael Striebel (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Wilkommen! "Ping" just means "mention and let him know you mentioned". So "pinging" someone is a reply but it's also an invitation to write back. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:19, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Those pages were saved in the user namespace, and you forgot to switch them to the main namespace (where books are published) when moving them. I've fixed it, and you should now be able to see Business for Charities. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 22:11, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

All your contributions to the project are already under a dual license. In case of the express statement you required on your work (that I support), since you are the licensor, you should declare it as dual licensed or simply as licensed under the CC-BY-SA as the one that grants more freedom and better accommodates Wikibooks and Wikimedia's requirements. What I stated in the post above is still true (but I can't remember the date, see here for the change process) there was a cut off date for imports (or contribution) of GFDL only work as the licenses somehow can be declared incompatible over a given grace period of compatibility. As for the incompatibilities of the GFLD text I was using the (incorrect) description by User:Koavf above as a base, so you can disregard my remarks about invariant sections, cover, etc... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 13:16, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * "incorrect description"? I copied and pasted it from his user page. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)


 * "under the GNU Free Document License with some restrictions on" was "with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts." when I looked. So my comments were only valid for your stated license version with restrictions. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 20:02, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you all! --Michael Striebel (discuss • contribs) 14:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

IP vandal
Please see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/212.219.248.132. Dan Koehl (discuss • contribs) 08:35, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Not done anything for now. If that user comes back and continues to vandalise, please post a note to that effect and I'll give him a block. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 11:35, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Somebody at that IP was messing around, but somebody else at the same IP undid some of the damage. For whatever insight that gives into the situation. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:04, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It's too early to say. Only three edits, and one edit was self-reverted. Might be someone just playing around. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 13:01, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe the same >> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/131.109.43.14 similair pattern? Dan Koehl (discuss • contribs) 16:52, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Always possible, of course, though that sort of messing-around by IPs seems a fairly undistinguished behavior. One of those IPs is located in far northern Scotland, the other in Rhode Island.  Btw, you can use wiki markup like this:
 * which produces
 * Special:Contributions/131.109.43.14
 * :-) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:20, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * :-) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:20, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikibooks in the Classroom course, Reoccurring editing issues
Hi there, I'm assisting a large cohort of students in the creation of a Wikibook in the topic of Approaches Knowledge with University College London. Although the students are yet to start designing their book, and are just discussing in group sandboxes, they are receiving a spam banner repeatedly, displaying 'an automated throttle which has been designed to limit spammers'. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It has been occurring mostly within one of 's sandboxes. Any help administrating this to assist the students when starting on their Wikibooks project would be most appreciated!

Hannah Evans (WMUK) (discuss • contribs) 16:53, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * While they are all false positives, there isn't much that we can do unfortunately. New users are blocked from posting external links as such edits are normally made by spammers. I don't think we can't simply disable it per user.


 * I suggest that you ask your students to follow the instructions given in that message - namely to request the link's addition at Edit filter/URL requests where a sysop will add it manually for them .Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Another option would be to have them edit some to get a sufficient amount of edits. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:43, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * That isn't always feasible, as they seem to hit the abusefilter with their very first edit (expected, as it's a group project). That's why I asked them to go to URL requests instead. It takes only a couple of edits from their side for the problem to be solved though.Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:48, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks, - I'll pass on the suggestions. I think the students will be keen to insert links when relevant- but I'm hoping moreso that this won't be a problem when inserting citation links when referencing the book in months to come? Thank you!

Hannah Evans (WMUK) (discuss • contribs) 09:45, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/184.96.229.38 - Denver LTA perp
The user I am reporting, Special:Contributions/184.96.229.38, made a personal attack on my talk page. This is the [] perp. Please block the host or range. --IanDBeacon (discuss • contribs) 17:36, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've blocked the IP but we can't afford to block such a huge range including 174.16.97.123 who had attacked you yesterday. but I can protect your talk page from the IPs if you want. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:46, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, please go ahead. --IanDBeacon (discuss • contribs) 17:47, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:50, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --IanDBeacon (discuss • contribs) 17:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)