Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2016/September

RevisionSlider
From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work! Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:56, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants
Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Project Grants 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 Project Grants Committee through October 1.
 * Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
 * Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
 * Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 14:49, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

dewikify
HI. Are there any tools to do it ? TIA --Adam majewski (discuss • contribs) 09:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * you can either print in PDF or have a look at commons:Commons:Tools. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:35, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

How to search the current book?
How do you search a book? Not all books, just the current book. The search box at the top searches every single wikibook, which isn't the solution you want, if you're in a middle of a particular book and want to look for something else in that book? Cormullion (discuss • contribs) 14:38, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Like this:


 * Let me know if you need more help. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:43, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Edit Ugh. Take a look at the formatting in the source of this page to see it made a little prettier. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Tried using &lt;pre&gt; instead of &lt;nowiki&gt;. ---Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:07, 17 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks! That works great. Cormullion (discuss • contribs) 22:18, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Somehow, I had forgotten Template:Book search, which does the same thing and which I have inserted on Social Statistics... —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:54, 17 September 2016 (UTC)


 * thanks, much easier! Cheers Cormullion (discuss • contribs) 08:05, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project
Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 19:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Submit a grant request
 * Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
 * Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

Making or modifying a simple navigation template
I like the Simple chapter navigation template. How can I modify it, or make one like it, where the CSS border is at the bottom of the div rather than at the top. I'd like to use this navigation template at the top of some pages and thus need the border underneath the navigation rather than on top. Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 12:50, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Have you checked Module:Chapter navigation? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:04, 22 September 2016 C)
 * Yes. Thanks.  I've seen that and it refers to   for regular use.  Though I see the parts I want to change.  Swap out "-top-" for "-bottom-" and it would work.
 * ['border-top-style'] = 'solid';
 * ['border-top-width'] = 'thin';
 * Is there a way for regular users to make a new template that uses a modified version and not use the simple chapter navigation template? Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * If by regular users you're implying those who can't use the Lua, it will simply need to add a few parameters into simple chapter navigation (and Module:Chapter navigation) to customize the borders. I should be able to do that in a few hours... JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 12:13, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ The template can now provide what you've asked for (please have a look to its new documentation). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:08, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! The documentation looks exactly like what I was aiming for (shows an option for bottom borders).  In deployment it still puts the borders at the top, though.  See this sandbox. There in the sandbox, the line should be below the link for "Tunnels", or have I entered it wrong? Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 08:05, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually the only "div" is a few pixels high and stops before "Tunnels". To move the border below, we should add it to the "span" tag (or to a new "div" below, or more likely extend the first "div" height). I may have the time to study that tonight. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:32, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * it's OK now. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 14:50, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * That's it. Thanks a lot.  Squeezing a   in there might make it balanced, but it's good and now I can update the chapters. Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 15:01, 24 September 2016 (UTC)