Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2019/May

Bug in MediaWiki processing?
Hi, appears MediaWiki processing has a bug which puts "&amp;amp;" in a URL where the character should be percent-encoded as "%26". Instances of the error are visible in the page source of any page in the book. With Firefox I open a page and right click on "View Page Source". That opens a window where ampersand characters appear as &amp;amp;. Anyone who can edit the MediaWiki software should be able to correct this easily. Regards, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 16:15, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm. @Bawolff? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:59, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * &amp; is perfectly correct in HTML, and has different semantics then %26. (&amp;amp; tells the html its an &amp; in the url, as in a separator of query parameters, where %26 is used to escape &amp; to tell the webserver that a query parameter has an &amp; in it that's not a query parameter separator. Most browsers would treat a plain &amp; as if it was &amp;amp; in a url, and I'm not sure about the status of that in HTML5, but at least in earlier versions of HTML, a plain &amp; in a url in the html source was technically invalid html). Bawolff (discuss • contribs) 13:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Vandalism
Not sure if this is the right place but this IP Special:Contributions/24.120.35.39 has continued to vandalise Ancient History/Greece/Minoan Civilization after a final warning. Rubbish computer (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It's worse than that; the url appears to be a source of both legitimate edits and vandalism; there clearly is going to be collateral damage from a block. How I noticed this:  The most recent edit to that page, when I looked, was an apparent rollback by you, but in fact it rolled back two edits by the same IP, and while the second of those was vandalism, the first was a constructive edit that you had sighted. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:30, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Though I see all but one of that IP's edits today have been vandalism. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:37, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I've given them a one-day block; that will stop the vandal from continuing in real time, and may draw the attention of someone at that IP who can take measures on that end, without inconveniencing legitimate editors from there for very long. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:39, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cheers for the response and action taken . Rubbish computer (discuss • contribs) 15:45, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Has the Reading Room Discussion Index bot stopped working?
The last entry in the index is from 12 Feburary, even though there were active discussions in various rooms since then. --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 15:42, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Puzzle Wikibook
Hi, I am now in midst of cleanup the Puzzle Wikibook and I propose that this page Puzzles/Rubik's cubes should be deleted up as it is a stub and couldn't be developed to fit into the genre of puzzle itself. It is last updated since ages ago ~

Thanks by Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 09:22, 25 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't this be best posted at WB:RFD? Chazz (talk) 22:07, 25 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Likely it would, yes. Though if it's speedy-able, a community RFD isn't strictly needed. I note there are two books devoted to things Rubik. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:20, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

OpenJSCAD User Guide
To resolve https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/issues/446 I'd like to know how proceed. I added an entry to Requests_for_permissions but do not know whether this is the proper way of doing things on Wikibooks. --WolfgangFahl (discuss • contribs) 13:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)