Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2012/June

Update on IPv6
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:


 * At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form " ". See e.g. IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)


 * In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.


 * We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 00:53, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition
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Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons [//toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=&wiki=&event=24 with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC)] is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:12, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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PediaPress PDF
As you know you can get printed copies of wikibooks via the collection tool form pediapress. You can also get the a pdf version for the collection tool. But the PDF version that serves as the base of the printed book is something you cannot get. And it is much different from the one you can download. To help with that problem I made tool that creates PDF versions which are very similar to the ones use for printing by pediapress. The tools is freely available for Windows and Ubuntu. see http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf for details. Yours Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 21:16, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Welcome me back.
I'm been a bit inactive lately, but never forgot Wikibooks. Anyway, I'm going continue some editing. I've been wound up in a few things lately, so that's why I've been inactive. But I'm still here! :)

-- Frozen Wind want to be chilly?  19:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Glad to have you back. We missed you. 64.40.54.168 (discuss) 20:25, 14 June 2012 (UTC)


 * That's nice. Welcome back. You know, according to Special:Statistics, we only have 483 active users, compared to Wikipedia's numbers. It's a small world here. —AllenZh (discuss • contribs) 20:36, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

OCR MEI
Just been looking at A-level resources for the OCR MEI maths course and was wondering whether anybody would be able to help me bring it up to standard, because work on it appears to be extremly slow and sporadic. The problem also is that I have only got as far as the AS mathns and are therefore not able to do much of the A2 items at the moment. Also being a student I'm also not certain how to make things clear and readable.

Any assistance would be great.

Thanks Ekul81 (discuss • contribs) 16:46, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

p.s. the "~" key is in a really weird place.

Even if someone with an okay level of maths could just review the pages and make them live that would be brilliant.

Starting a new book
I want to make a new book but I don't know how, can someone help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heffly (discuss • contribs) 18:15, 15 June 2012‎


 * See Reading room/Administrative Assistance. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:32, 15 June 2012 (UTC)


 * But also see my comments on your talk page. Your contributions to Wikibooks are of such poor quality I think you should seriously consider working on a project in your native language and not here. Also, I've answered your question once before. QU TalkQu 18:34, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Mobile view as default view coming soon
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The mobile view of this project and others will soon become the default view on mobile devices (except tablets). Some language versions of these projects currently show no content on the mobile home page, and it is a good time to do a little formatting so users get a mobile-friendly view, or to add to existing mobile content if some already exists.

If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is July 5.

To contact the mobile team, email mobile-feedback-llists.wikimedia.org.

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 04:47, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Question about Template:HoverImage
Is there a way I can use Template:HoverImage with an absolute position (like )? Currently it does not work, and one half of one image displays on the bottom and the other half of the other image on the top. Could the CSS be altered to allow this? Liam987 17:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)



Do you mean absolute positioning like this? --dark lama  18:31, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * What I am using this for is on Wikijunior:Countries A-Z. Take a look at Wikijunior:Countries A-Z/Australia, for example. I have made the globe at the top be positioned above the page using the code


 * I was trying to make this switch to a more detailed location map when hovered over, but I could not get it to stay in its position. What I tried was:




 * But this did not work. Liam987  08:08, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I have update the CSS that HoverImage depends on, but that may not address it because relative/absolute positioning can be error prone due to differences in web browsers, web browser versions, web browser settings, web browser CSS defaults, mediawiki skins, custom user common.js, etc. --dark lama  16:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I have removed the the absolute positioning from the book anyway Liam987  19:23, 2 June 2012 (UTC)