Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2016/March

Citing the same source, but different pages
Hi there, I'm a bit stumped about this, and I'm sure there is an elegant solution to my problem. I'm using a book chapter for a specific section, and include a few quotes here and there. If I reference each individually, it will show in my reference list at the same source 3 times, but with different page numbers. That, to me, looks aesthetically annoying. Is there a more sophisticated way I can include this book just once in the reflist, but still make a note of the page number for each quote in some way? I hope this makes sense to you, help much appreciated! --Chickpeanut (discuss • contribs) 20:28, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Some things similar to what you describe are traditionally covered by Ibid. and some similar abbreviations (listed there under See also). --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 20:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes! I could use that. How would I use the markup correctly, so it would 'know' which source to attribute the 'ibid.' to? Because if I reference like, it would sort it alphabetically in the wrong place, wouldn't it? Chickpeanut (discuss • contribs) 20:41, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hm, yes, that could be a problem. It immediately occurred to me to wonder how Wikipedia deals with it, which led me to w:WP:IBID, a section with a bit of discussion of this sort of thing.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:35, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the link, it was very helpful. I used short citations and added a full reference list at the end, and it looks a lot better now! Chickpeanut (discuss • contribs) 22:09, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Adding IMAGES to wikibooks
Hello, I want to add an image to my Wikibooks assignment.I have attempted using wiki commons but the images are far too big.Does anyone have any suggestions on how to crop the wiki commons images? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamela.nx (discuss • contribs) 01:33, 11 March 2016
 * Fwiw, scaling images is trivially easy to do, it's part of the image markup. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:15, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Creating a box
Hi there, I'm working on a wikibooks project in class with 27 other people, which means the discussion page gets crowded very quickly. I'd like to add a big (coloured) box or something similarly visible at the top of the page in order to write important points in it which everyone can see easily. How would I do this with Wiki Markup? Also, what was that little hack again to move the table of contents to a specific place on the page? Thanks for your help --Chickpeanut (discuss • contribs) 16:44, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, Chickpeanut. Simplest way to make a colored box on a talk page would be template tmbox.  The keyword for forcing the table of contents of a page into a particular position is  .  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:45, 1 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help! I'll just quickly try this out in here. Perfect!

User tagging
Hi, I am new to Wikibooks and was wondering if its possible to "tag" other users in a discussion comment? Thanks Clarenotdanni (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)


 * You can use template ping in a comment to cause a user to be notified of the comment. At the beginning of this comment, I wrote markup  .  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Granting move permissions to new users
Hi,

I am currently working on rewriting the wikibook AQA A-Level computing for a new specification. This involves moving a lot of pages, but only I have permission to do so, could we please allow the following people to move these pages:

Domain they need to move in: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Computing

Users: Michel Wermelinger, FCallow, Andrew Csizmadia, Duncan Maidens, faljelifdf, Mr Comp Sci, codeboom

Pluke (discuss • contribs) 10:59, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I commented on this at Requests for permissions. I don't think it can be done, but the waiting period is only four days so the problem should disappear by sometime on Wednesday.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

TOC for a table
Hi everyone,

I am wondering, if it is possible to add an extra table of content for a table, i.e. I have a very long table (with numbers in the first column) and I want to be able to jump to any section/line of it without scrolling and scrolling and scrolling... So is there is a possibility to add an extra TOC just for that or is it possible to make it appear in the general TOC at the top? Thanks again for any help you can offer! - SchrumpflinH (discuss • contribs) 21:31, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Work won't appear
Hi I've been trying to put up a post on my class project An Internet of Everything in the preview everything looks as it should and I hit save page and it says its saved but then I go onto my class project chapter and it isn't there. One of my classmates suggested something to do with the mark up but I'm not sure what that's wrong with the mark up. Please help. My project is due in on Friday. Thank you HayleyJo87 (discuss • contribs) 19:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Do the edits you made appear on the list of your contributions at this link? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:46, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

@Hi --Pi zero No they don't :( HayleyJo87 (discuss • contribs) 20:03, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * If they don't show up there, the edits didn't get saved. My first, tentative guess would be that, whatever it was that seemed as if it was saying the edits had been saved, that wasn't actually what it was trying to say. :(  If you're using the standard editing interface (I can't speak to the VisualEditor thing, I consider it a supremely bad idea), there should be three buttons below the edit box &mdash; Save page, Show preview, and Show changes.  Save page is obviously the one you need to actually save the edit; in my experience there are two ways for it to go wrong.  It may report an edit conflict, which is an awful mess when it happens; I've generally recovered from that by immediately backing up one step in the browser window (which almost always works, unless the previous view is too old and it says it's expired), and using Show changes instead, then pasting my edits onto my local clipboard and starting the edit over.  Or it may say the edit couldn't be saved due to a loss of session data, in which case you have to try again.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:50, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

@Hi --Pi zeroOne of my classmates got in touch with me and we sorted it out together. Something silly I was doing at my end. Thank you for taking the time out to help me. Enjoy the rest of your day :) HayleyJo87 (discuss • contribs) 09:55, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Making our content more meaningful
The second Inspire Campaign has launched to encourage and support new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge in our projects. What ideas do you have to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible? We invite all Wikimedians to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help your project better represent the world’s knowledge! I JethroBT (WMF) 19:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Closing Wikibooks projects
You can post your comments on closing Belarusian and Limburgish Wikibooks here. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 09:27, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants
Hey folks! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space. Also accepting candidates to join the IEG Committee through March 25th.
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