Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2018/January

Move Geodesic Grids to user sandbox
I'm the sole contributor to Geodesic Grids. I think someone else did some copyedits at one point, and there have been bot edits, but I'm the only content contributor. I've recently noticed a number of major issues with the text, and I'd like to move it out of the mainspace until I have time to fix it. Is there any sort of bot or admin-script resource that can move the book and its chapters to my sandbox, and automatically fix any links that might be broken in the process? Doing it by hand seems like a pain. -Apocheir (discuss • contribs) 20:52, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The Wikipedia bot which fixes the broken links is w:User:InternetArchiveBot, but it hasn't been adapted and approved here yet.
 * Technically, my bot used to do it on the French projects, but I refuse to launch it here before we adopt a clear policy like w:Wikipedia:Link rot. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Racist username. Ethnic slur (I am asian). Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 16:07, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * locked. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:45, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion for a subject classification ...
... for the new project at Medical Suction Machines? Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps . --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:45, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Also I wonder whether automatic insertion of the formal title on the title page can be suppressed.  The title on the title page is longer than the formal title and both are too much.  Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 15:17, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


 * There is a magic word for this, but it doesn't appear to recognize ; try replacing the span at the top of the page with
 * --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Good! Thanks!!  ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 16:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Good! Thanks!!  ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 16:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon 2018
A special edit-a-thon will be held at the English Wikivoyage through February 2018 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Wikivoyage. The main goal of this edit-a-thon is to encourage new editors to share travel information at Wikivoyage. Anyone interested in contributing, whether by updating outdated information or by adding listings of prominent sites/businesses such as a prominent museums, restaurants or hotels, is more than welcome to participate in the edit-a-thon.

The edit-a-thon is going to be held at several other editions of Wikivoyage including the German, French, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Russian, Portuguese, Hindi, Hebrew and the Chinese editions of Wikivoyage. In addition, the use of a central notice banner has been requested to promote the edit-a-thon. ויקיג&#39;אנקי (discuss • contribs) 16:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, why was this message sent here? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 17:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Reviews in admin groups
Is this needed along side the admin group? I presume the admin tool set already has it. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 19:57, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you asking about the relationship between admin privs and reviewer privs? Nobody is going to end up with admin privs on en.wn without already being a reviewer.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 20:29, 25 January 2018 (UTC)


 * no no, I mean, I noticed you, and every admin, also has the reviewer priv but explicity together. Isnt that redundant? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 20:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Truthfully, I don't see any reason to change anything (changing stuff always runs the risk of something going wrong; if it ain't broke, don't fix it). Here, there's basically no way any admin won't already have the reviewer bit, so why would it matter?  On en.wn, there have occasionally been admins who did not have the reviewer bit, though that's far more likely there since reviewer on en.wn is a much bigger deal than here.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:01, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I learnt this the hard way. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:47, 25 January 2018 (UTC)