Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2014/December

Could I acquire a standard welcome message?
I would like one. Chess (discuss • contribs) 23:38, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Certainly. :-) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 05:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

missing recipe add feature
At one time you had a feature someplace that had a link to add a recipe to the cookbook. That link seems to be missing or so well hidden that it's easily overlooked.--Robert Dell (discuss • contribs) 12:31, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

looking for a tool
Even though I know nothing about programming, I'm curious to know if there is a gadget or kinds of apps which can help me to start a book in a flash. This can be done through automatically insertion of a list showing book chapters. Something like the tool in Wikivoyage which inserts automatically templates for places for seeing, doing, buying, eating, etc. just by a click. In Wikibooks a similar tool can automatically insert templates like book_name/chapter_1_name, book_name_glossary, etc. Does such a tool already exsist here? --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 20:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Seems to me books are more complex, and with vastly more variation, than Wikivoyage entries. So, best guess, I'd expect it to be a whole different level of challenge here.


 * Once I get my interactive tools to a more advanced stage &mdash;I need to learn idioms for using them to create interactive assistants (wizards), as well as some lower-level implementation improvements&mdash; I'm hoping it might become practical to bring the tools here and start trying to develop wizards for doing bookish things with them. But that plan is not short-term.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:08, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That seems interesting to me. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 16:08, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

The MediaWiki Rendering Engine is kaput. Or is it something with WikiBooks?
I have been trying for 2 days now, to download Blender 3D: Noob To Pro as a PDF now. I have tried every way I could think of. And used 2 different computers, 2 different OSes and 3 different browsers. Nothing helps. I also created a random collection, on which the collection creator again choked. What course of action should I take next? Salmonlawyer (discuss • contribs) 06:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I just downloaded it no problem. Can you explain more about what the issue(s) was? Have you filed a bug at ? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:37, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Subpages Lacking Links
Hi, I was editing the Microsoft Office book, when I noticed that the Windows Version Differences subpage lacked a link that returns you to the main Microsoft Office page. (This link would look something like "< Microsoft Office", and be located just under the title of the page.) I looked in the Mac OS X Tiger book, and there saw the link in question was there. However, it does not appear in the source for that page (as far as I can determine). Any pointers? Thanks! SupremeUmanu (discuss • contribs) 01:00, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Update: The links I mentioned are now present in the Office wikibook. SupremeUmanu (discuss • contribs) 01:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Bringing Sociology to the World
Hi everyone. My name is Dr. Mike. I'm a sociologist and I've been involved in "opening sociology" for over twenty years. I currently have two sociological projects running, one is The Socjourn (http://www.sociology.org) and one is a nascent space on the Sociology of Religion. I came here to maybe help with the introductory sociology text books.Dr.Sosteric (discuss • contribs) 14:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, Dr.Sosteric. Welcome to Wikibooks. :-)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Difference between Wikipedia and Wikibooks
There is a feature in Wikipedia for making a book by gathering different pages on a specific subject. Can wikibooks import a verbatim of one of these books if the subject is in the domain of Wikibooks? If the answer is yes, what is wikibooks for then?--Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 20:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * You seem to have a problem understanding what is an Encyclopedia and what constitutes a text book (the scope of the projects). Wikipedia if for encyclopedic articles (I would agree that sometimes it goes far beyond that but that is a problem for Wikipedians) while Wikibooks is only for the creation of educational text books (that sometimes some projects seem only a collection of encyclopedic articles is because Wikibooks is intended for continual developing of works and almost no starting process is objected too, and that is a fast way to bring useful content in, requiring only licensing considerations and few creative or intellectual work). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 20:45, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your eligible answer but I think we need some clear-cut criteria for example wikibooks contains test exams, exercises, etc. but wikipedia not. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 21:12, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * At the time the "book" feature of Wikipedia was introduced, it was suggested &mdash;how seriously is open to interpretation&mdash; that the feature was called "book" in a deliberate attempt to undermine Wikibooks. A collection of pages is decidedly not a book, in the sense used here; it's not a matter of content, but of coherence.  See WB:What is Wikibooks?.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiWorld
WikiWorld is a developing Wiki sandbox book developed by Isaac Fisher. WikiWorld was also a little vandalized. Wikipedia is not sure yet if WikiWorld is a real phenomenon.

15:08, 28 December 2014 (UTC)2601:1:8801:B20E:1592:5524:3EB8:BC8A (discuss) Printed by Isaac Fisher
 * How do you need help? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:12, 28 December 2014 (UTC)