Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2015/November

LaTeX book compilation
I have extracted the source code of the book as it says in the first page but when I try to compile it writing "pdflatex main.tex" it says that pdflatex isn't installed. What does it mean that the book has a configured version of pdflatex then? -- Arturo93 18:50, 11 February 2015‎ please don't forget to sign with four tildes


 * @Arturo93 You should ask Dirk Hünniger on his talk page. Dirk has created the tool wb2pdf as described in the preface of the pdf file. I suppose the problem is related to your latex installation. -- Juetho (discuss • contribs) 14:19, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey
Hi everyone!

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23. We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed
Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:47, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign
''This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.''

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Solitaire card games
Hi everyone, (especially those interested in the topic of solitaires and other card games) I am a contributor mainly active at en.wp, but sometimes finds time to work on other projects. Please help out with this book, I have been on and off working on it many times, but never actually had other significant contributors to it. The majority of the material were transferred from en.wp and reformatted somewhat. See the talk page and add any ideas you suggest and feel free to comment on my ideas. Cheers, I will truly appreciate any effort made by anyone. Champion (discuss • contribs) 03:37, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Multilingual projects
Hello,

I am an author of the German Wikibook project "Mathe für Nicht-Freaks". We want to translate this book in English (and maybe in other languages as well). Thus, we are looking for good solutions. Because tools like mw:Extension:Translate only work on one wiki and we do not want to maintain our templates on many wikis we think about moving our project to this wiki. Therefore we have the following questions:


 * Is it okay to have multilingual projects on Wikibooks?
 * Is there a possibility to enable mw:Extension:Translate on this wiki? Do you have any reservation against this extension?

Greetings, Stephan Kulla (discuss • contribs) 13:47, 29 November 2015 (UTC)