Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2012/September

Legal Fees Assistance Program
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion. If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.) Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 15:34, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out
(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:
 * 1) language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
 * 2) infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
 * 3) lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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Comment period on the Wikimedia United States Federation
There is a proposal for an an umbrella organization for chapters and other groups in the US called the Wikimedia United States Federation. A draft of the bylaws is now up at meta. There will be an open comment period on the bylaws 17 September, 2012 to 1 October, 2012. The comments received given will be incorporated into the bylaws and they will be put up to a ratification vote from 8 October, 2012 to 15 October, 2012. --Guerillero (discuss • contribs) 21:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

New book
There is a new open book project  started by me, Daviddaved. How does one go about putting the book into Wikibooks Catalog?... It is partly developed. Please, help, thank you...Daviddaved (discuss • contribs) 22:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

The Little C Primer and the free version of Visual C++ from Microsoft
I was just wondering if anyone here has a better knowledge of Visual C++ (2010) in relation to ANSI C.

I've added a section to The Little C Primer mentioning that the Visual C++ IDE from MS is suitable for coding the examples in this primer. However I think that since the examples seem to be strict ANSI C (I'm no expert just a hobbyist programmer) I was wondering would Visual C++ compile the examples.

Any help would be appreciated. Maybe someone knows of a better compiler for these examples. I'm just trying to show beginners the possible IDE's they can use. I'm a bit puzzled as to why the book has a beginners tag yet there's not a section on the "tools" needed to code and compile the programs. The book just jumps straight into a "volume of a sphere" program. It doesn't even mention that you can use Notepad as a "coding" text editor or that you can compile and run these at the command prompt. What is the correct compiler to download for working through these examples?

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 02:09, 26 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about my question. I did a quick search and the answer is yes you can use Visual C++ to compile ANSI C programs. Did throw me at first and I should've used Google. Still thats good news for readers of The Little C Primer at Wikibooks.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 02:27, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

New to wiki's and wikibooksYosef Karo (discuss • contribs) 09:31, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
I am new here and was just wondering if I can use all materials I find here to build a website if I license it appropriately?Yosef Karo (discuss • contribs) 09:31, 30 September 2012 (UTC)