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Openstax Principles of Microeconomics
Three faculty at my college are interested in using and enhancing the Openstax Principles of Microeconomics CC-BY textbook. Would this be a project that the Wikibooks community would accept / support? If this goes well, we would likely want to follow with additional Openstax titles, including the other economics books and the sociology book.

I've done some brief testing. The content is available in HTML format, and that copies and pastes fairly well into the VisualEditor. Other than structuring the sections and the number of subpages required, I don't think the workload would be overwhelming for us in terms of getting the book added here.

If there is support for such a project, do you have any recommendations on examples of how it should be structured? It has 20 chapters, and each chapter has an average of four sections. The way the content is designed, it would be preferable to keep those sections separated, as different instructors may want to link to the sections in different sequences, etc.

Should this book be added as a new title of Principles of Microeconomics, or should it replace the existing Microeconomics?

And finally, do you have recommendations for how to properly reference the source when adding this content? Would you rather see it referenced in the page content, in the edit summary, or on the talk page? What is the community's preference for referencing imported content? I personally am inclined to include it in the page content so it appears when printed, but having the reference print on 80 separate pages may be overwhelming.

Thank you for your consideration and suggestions.

Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * This is a great opportunity. I'd be happy to help import it. As far as replacing the current Micro text, I'm hesitant because I don't want anything good to get lost between the two. There's no problem having two textbooks on the same topic if they are intended for different audiences (e.g. Intro to Algebra and Algebra or a WikiJunior Let's Meet the Presidents of the United States along with a serious book on presidential history and scholarship) but I don't see value in having two separate textbooks on the same topic for the same audience. I think references should be in some front matter and the edit summaries--most subpages really shouldn't have blue link talk pages in my opinion unless there is a narrow question about that subpage. I hope more Wikibookians contribute. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:56, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

This project is started at Principles of Microeconomics. All text is imported. Images still need to be imported and links corrected. If anyone wants to help import images, please feel free to join in. The source is CNX. I've been using Google Image Search to find the free source. Flickr images can be imported using the Flickr2Commons upload tool. When the original image isn't a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, I've been looking for either Commons or open Flickr alternatives.

Regarding Reviewers, what is local best practice? Are we allowed to review our own edits, or is it assumed that someone else should review a reviewer's edits?

Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * On en.wb flaggedrevs is an anti-vandalism device, so there's no problem with self-sighting edits. Presumably you aren't yourself vandalizing pages or you wouldn't have the review bit here, yes? :-)  Autoreview is enabled here (I think that's what it's called):  when you edit a page whose most recent version is sighted, you automatically sight your own edit.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 20:12, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
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In short: starting on 26 September, New Filters for Edit Review (now in Beta) will become standard on Recent Changes. They provide an array of new tools and an improved interface. If you prefer the current page you will be able to opt out. Learn more about the New Filters.

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On behalf of the Global Collaboration team, Trizek (WMF) 15:27, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Character name appendix clean-up
Hey, I have a task force page called User:Cilantrohead/Character_name_appendix_clean-up now. Basically the crew monitors and cleans up the character name pages in the appenfix to Writing Adolescent Fiction in the ways listed. If you're interested in joining, or if in practice you've already been doing it, check out the task force and add your name to the list! Cilantrohead (discuss • contribs) 04:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)