Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2019/March

You may now become 'Wikibooks — A Wikipedia project'
According to this discussion at Meta, Wikimedia Foundation is considering rebranding. This means for you, that rather than Wikibooks being a Wikimedia project, it would become a Wikipedia project.

The proposed changes also include
 * Providing clearer connections to the sister projects from Wikipedia to drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to all movement projects.

While raising such awareness in my opinion is a good thing, do you think classifying you as a 'Wikipedia' project would cause confusion? Do you think newcomers would have a high risk of erroneously applying some of Wikipedia principles and policies here which do not apply? If so, what confusion? Could you please detail this. I have raised a query about that HERE in general, but I am looking for specific feedback.

Please translate this message to other languages. --Gryllida 23:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

There is a proposal at meta to have brainstorming for different names. The names proposed so far are 'wikipedia', 'wikiworld', 'wikimania', 'wikiweb' to finish with 'a XYZ project' where XYZ is the name. Please share your proposals either here or there, at your convenience. Gryllida 00:44, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

How long does it take for a new edit to be published
This edit I made a month ago is still in the reviewing stage. How can it be removed from this status? Is this an administrator/patroller task? Thanks. SelfieCity (discuss • contribs) 14:14, 19 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Actually, in our main books collection, edits are immediately visible to everyone, so in the most evident sense they're 'published' immediately. We use the revision-review facility mainly to keep track of as-of-when an authorized reviewer has certified the page is vandalism-free, with occasional overtones of otherwise-validity, which helps us because when checking a page for damage we can usually disregard anything before the most recent reviewed revision. A user account is auto-promoted to reviewer &mdash;the user privilege to certify a page revision as vandalism-free&mdash; when the account meets certain threshold criteria, intended to assure that users are acclimated to the project-specific culture of Wikibooks before they're set loose to make review judgements; the criteria are listed at Reviewers. Btw, there are some books on the project where edits aren't visible to all until they've been sighted (certified) by a reviewer; this is true especially of all the books on Wikijunior, where we figure vandalism shouldn't be immediately visible to kids. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Renaming "Medical Suction Machines"
I'm thinking to generalize the coverage of Medical Suction Machines to Medical Machines. How can the renaming be accomplished? Suppose I create a new book named Medical Machines. Then can Medical Suction Machines be moved into it as Medical Machines/Suction Machines? Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 18:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, an admin can do that for you. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)


 * What if I create the new book, add the content from Med. Suction Machines and then request deletion of that? The expanded book wouldn't have the creation date and history of the older book but that would be a minor loss.  Does any policy apply here? Is one method preferable? Otherwise I'll just begin the new book. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 05:13, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I'd rather save the history. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:11, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * > Yes, an admin can do that for you.
 * What is the procedure? Just state the request here.  Please move Medical Suction Machines to Medical Machines.  Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 22:38, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Um. I'm hesitating, here.  It seems as if that much material about just one kind of machine wouldn't belong in the book-main-page of a book about all kinds of medical machines; cf. split. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, now there is a book, Medical Machines containing a heading/link "Suction Machines and Aspirators" which I visualize being connected to the existing book. Under that heading are subheadings for the existing sections in the existing book. There are also headings for a few other classes of machine I want to include. It's similar to the structure of This Quantum World. How is that?  Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 02:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I moved the pre-existing page. There's plenty of neatifying to do, of course, but it's a start. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 05:11, 10 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. A little elementary tidying done.  Plenty of work ahead, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 20:06, 10 March 2019 (UTC)