Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2004/October

wiki audio books?
Has anyone ever discussed the possibility of having volunteers read some of the wiki book educational texts to create an audio MP3/ogg vorbis archive of the more finished ones as an aid to those with poor eyesight or just for an educational listen?

(perhaps this should be in project ideas)

This is a wonderful idea. Most people who require this have reader programmers. Ogg vorbis I know have open source speech code. However an option to read this(especially for something like language courses) would be very worthwhile. There is a blind programmers group who have a web site - maybe they would be interested in coding this? Good suggestion. Lobster 09:29, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Additions to What Wikibooks is not
I'd like to add a few items to What Wikibooks is not. They are currently at the talk page. Oh, and while I've got your attention, I've got a new redesign for the Cookbook at Talk:Cookbook/Temp, if you'd like to check it out and make any suggestions/comments/improvements. Gentgeen 00:58, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

How to
I've misplaced the way one edits the automated TOCs for articles such as. Anyone here recall how to create and edit such things? Something is added on to the front, I think. - Marsh 01:42, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Go to Template:BotanyTOC. - SamE 22:56, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Danke schön! Glad to see you are still working hard here! - 24.94.82.245 06:24, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) Damn! Anybody know why login is automatic at Wikipedia, but requires re-enting password etc. here? - Marsh
 * hmmm, my automatic login here works. Gentgeen 07:13, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Strange. Mine works fine at Wikipedia. And I have "Remember my password across sessions" marked in my preferences here. But it does not recognize me at all when I come in.  I have to enter both my user name and password every time. At Wikipedia I just access the site and I'm automatically recognized. - Marsh 17:34, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Check if you've restricted cookies to "session only" for wikibooks.org. -- Paddu 21:00, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Where is that located. I could not find in my User Preferences - Marsh 19:38, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * That would be in your browser settings. Anyways, since you couldn't figure out where to change cookie settings, there isn't much of a chance that you'd've changed the settings for wikibooks to be different from wikipedia. Your problem is probably unrelated to what I said.
 * FYI, if you check "Remember my password across sessions", wikibooks.org tries to set a non-session cookie, but some browsers allow you to force such cookies to also be treated as session-cookies. Such a setting is usually used for public terminals/machines where logins are shared. -- Paddu 22:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree, everything works just great at Wikipedia (which instantly recognizes me days later just by bringing it up). Even if I open a second window here (I sometimes keep two windows going to allow me to reference pages while I edit in the first window) I have to log in again for the second window. I do tick off remember pasword across sessions (although not consistently), but has no obvious impact on anything. Only difference, is that here I have provided a short name "Marsh" which is not my full log-in name. I'll drop that and see if that helps  - Marsh 03:28, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Copying content from Wikipedia
User:Panic2k4 seems to have copied some material from the Wikipedia to Programming:C plus plus (probably not entire articles). For doing this should one use Transwiki to keep track of the GNU FDL requirements even for small parts of articles, even if it is a copy and not a move? In which case, I/someone'll have to warn Panic about that. -- Paddu 21:23, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons up and running
I just wanted to let the community know that the Wikimedia Commons was functional. Any Wikimedia wiki (like ours, Wikibooks) can use images and files stored at Commons. Simply link to an image source like normal, for example. The software searches for the image first locally, then looks at commons to see if such a file exists there. For example, the image to the right is located at commons. Gentgeen 22:22, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)