Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2013/July

Old uploads which are presumed GFDL
Today I came here to browse a little bit around to see what is offered by Wikibooks. I went to the main page, saw the featured recipe, and went to that page. As a Commons admin I could not resist to click on one of the images and so I ended up at File:Mejadrah-cooking.s.jpg which to my surprise carries a GFDL-presumed tag since 2007. Getting more curious, I followed that tag and noticed that it is used in total 233 times. I know that Wikibooks switched off local uploads at some time, redirecting all to Commons which is laudible. While I understand very much that you intended to give the uploaders some time to fix the license, it appears unlikely that such fixes occur nine years after the upload and six years after the addition of the GFDL-presumed tag. Keeping such images appears to be risky. Uploaders that are not familiar with copyright tags and our licensing policies are often happy to grant WMF the right to use it but are not really aware that pictures must be put under a free license as well. An explicit confirmation (by adding such a license template) grants more safety than a simple assumption. No license can be assumed here as there were multiple licenses to chose from. The risk is then with possible reusers of supposedly free Wikibooks content.

I know, I am new here (this is my second edit at this site) and this has perhaps already been discussed in the past. Understand this please as a kind reminder that there is a backlog that needs attention. --AFBorchert (discuss • contribs) 18:12, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09
On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:21, 4 July 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).

New user.. A little help pretty please
Hi. My name's Ben and I was wondering if I could get some technical assistance. I'm getting ready to release a series of math tutorial videos on youtube, and I've written some supplementary worksheets to accompany them. I was initially planning to have the worksheets available on google drive for download, but now I'm thinking a better way to do it is to assemble them into one big indexed pdf and post them here. I'm fairly new to.. wiki-ing in general and was wondering if there was maybe a wikibook on how to format and post a wikibook? Anyway any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
 * Please read Using Wikibooks and WB:What is Wikibooks. I have moved the page you created into your user space for now. We don't create standalone pages, nor pages named this way, so I've moved them until you've read up on how to do things. To answer your question - you can't post "big indexed PDFs" here - the point of a wiki is everyone has to be able to edit it and it has to be freely licensed. A PDF is both proprietary and non-editable so the wiki software doesn't support this function. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 22:02, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Pywikipedia is migrating to git
Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:06, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Wrong protection notice
I've noticed that the fully-protected Main Page displays the MediaWiki message for semi-protected pages. That also applies to other full-protected pages. It would be good to fix that problem. Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 14:56, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * When I look at the Wikibooks main page, I don't see any protection notice. Am I simply failing to look in the right place?  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:59, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * At the edit dialogue of the main page. Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 01:32, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hm. Since I'm an admin, when logged in I probably wouldn't see the same message you would.  (The message I see is correct.)  I'll have to log out, and perhaps log into an unprivileged doppelganger account, to investigate; hopefully I'll get to that later today. :-)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 31 July 2013 (UTC)