Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2019/April

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April
You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)  10:56, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Experienced Wikipedia editor wanting to get started on Wikibooks
I am an experienced editor on the English Wikipedia (12 years, 45,000 edits) who is thinking about getting involved in Wikibooks. Obviously I need to learn any differences in how things are done here.

I am working on a book on the topic of running diagnostics on various scientific and graphing calculators. Everything I write I release to the world under a CC0 license.

Would Wikibooks be an appropriate place to put my work? Are there any tutorials, help pages or examples I should know about? Do I need to put it in a specific place? --Guy Macon (discuss • contribs) 05:41, 7 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Welcome! :-) You might read What is Wikibooks? for a start, then the book Using Wikibooks.  (It occurs to me that Using Wikibooks may not be up-to-date with our recent replacement of Subject pages by the Wikibooks Stacks, but that's just one detail.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:16, 7 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! My only remaining question is whether a book on running diagnostics on various scientific and graphing calculators belongs in Shelf:Computer hardware, somewhere in Department:Mathematics, or some other place. Is there a place where there are discussions on where a book belongs? --Guy Macon (discuss • contribs) 17:20, 7 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Computer hardware sounds like a good place. The goal is for people to be able to find the book, after all.  Looking through the hierarchy under Department:Mathematics, I didn't off-hand see a place where it would likely be looked for.  (If you do think of a second place that would be useful to list it, listing on two shelves is generally considered reasonable.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:46, 7 April 2019 (UTC)