Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2003/December

Moved discussions
Archived Discussions After some inactivity, discussions will be moved to other sections of wikibooks (such as FAQ pages), to the Staff Lounge Archive, or deleted (if of no long-term value). Some discussions recently moved to the Staff Lounge Archive:
 * 1) Writing Textbooks - Public domain books, Multilingual Wikibooks
 * 2) * Guitar textbook, Physics textbook, Computer drafting (AutoCAD)
 * 3) Logo discussions : Wikipedia logo contest, our Logo page
 * 4) Wikibooks functional aspects -- Annotation mark-up, Q's about images, editable recent changes
 * 5) Cross-project references: Referencing Wikipedia & Wiktionary (also, see below)
 * 6) Server Issues and other Wierdness -- Login not working, Wikibooks namespace issues, TeX weirdness

Moved to other pages
 * Wikiuniversity discussion moved to Talk:Wikiversity
 * Wikibook Press moved to Wikibooks:Wikibook Press
 * Namespaces lists and coordination at Help:Namespaces
 * The Transwiki pseudo-namespace: our Transwiki log is up and running, and has it's first transferee already. Checkout Transwiki for more information.  Gentgeen 19:55, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Annotated texts - previous discussions moved to Wikibooks talk:Annotated texts.

Summarized discussions

 * Wikibooks: pages renamed to Wikipedia: -- fixed.
 * Wikibooks.com not redirecting to Wikibooks.org -- fixed.
 * Non wikipedian users: show them to How to edit a page -- maybe we need to publicize this page better.
 * Computer programming books -- Should this be broken up into seperate books? See Talk:Computer Programming.
 * Link-cache troubles when using textbook.wikipedia.org -- use en.wikibooks.org instead.
 * Bleh. Thanks for telling me about the Wikipedia: to en: to :w: syntax changes for trans-project links...
 * Why are there no longer images in my Photoschule Großformat book? ... it works now.  lars
 * Are our textbooks designed to have a teacher? you can do it any way you want to.
 * Why are Wikibook URLs case-sensitive? Tradition.  Create redirects if  necessary.
 * How to protect a static page? Ask an Administrator to temporarily protect it for you.  Books which are truly static should probably go to Wikisource instead.
 * Bad link in sisterprojects template -- fixed.
 * There is a new Community Portal.
 * Are there criteria for Featured Books? There should be.
 * The Design and Organization of Data Centers - now up.