Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2004/March

General Help

 * Categories & Topics: the convention is to use Special:Categories, though they are little used as of Aug, 2004.
 * Language-specific subdomains & interfaces: Subdomains

General References:
 * Reference works to use to build books
 * Public domain and fair use
 * Textbook ideas

General Questions
TUF-KAT 26 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Is there a page here or elsewhere that describes how to set parameters and such for the template namespace? I can't find one.
 * Is there a page on Wikibooks to get anon edits credited to accounts?
 * I imported a 1910 manual of gardening and have been wikifying it. Take a look at the intro to gardening -- personally, I think it's well-written, but will need to be changed to suit Wikibooks.  Has there been any discussion about how neutrality is relevant to Wikibooks, or what the desired tone of modules is?
 * Could someone figure out why the three columns of links to articles on plants at the bottom of gardening won't line up? They are supposed to be next to each other, with the white one in the middle separating the two green.
 * Anyone know why the little symbol icons and the main logo have disappeared? - Marsh 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

General Questions

 * Is there a page here or elsewhere that describes how to set parameters and such for the template namespace? I can't find one.
 * Is there a page on Wikibooks to get anon edits credited to accounts?
 * I imported a 1910 manual of gardening and have been wikifying it. Take a look at the intro to gardening -- personally, I think it's well-written, but will need to be changed to suit Wikibooks.  Has there been any discussion about how neutrality is relevant to Wikibooks, or what the desired tone of modules is?
 * Could someone figure out why the three columns of links to articles on plants at the bottom of gardening won't line up? They are supposed to be next to each other, with the white one in the middle separating the two green. TUF-KAT 26 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Anyone know why the little symbol icons and the main logo have disappeared? - Marsh 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

How to link to Wikipedia and other sources
(see also Help:Contents)

Linking to Wikipedia

How do you link from a Wikibook to a Wikipedia article?
 * To get a link to the Wikipedia article on apples, write

apples, apples or apples.
 * To get to articles on other projects, use the following prefix:

w: wikipedia  wikt: wiktionary   q: wikiquote   b: wikibooks   m: meta-wiki

Numbers instead of words for external links

I tried the format [ http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X X], but frequently got numbers instead of words! It didn't happen all the time, and I didn't specify I wanted numbers. Could someone please explain to me what's going on? --Trebor1990 (17 March 2004)


 * If you use [URL] with just the URL in brackets, you will get a number (useful for providing an in text reference). To see WORDS, use [URL WORDS] . For example, [ http://www.google.com/ GOOGLE] comes out as GOOGLE. Theresa knott 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)