Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2020/February

Layout the Quiz template to horizontal mode
In Puzzles/Odd-one-out, I saw the images used for Puzzles are quite good but however I see that the images are laid out vertically. Are there any way I can make the quiz pics to be lined up horizontally ?

Asked by Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 14:54, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Apparently not. According to Help:Quizzes, "Unfortunately there does not yet seem to be a way of putting these into a row or tabularising the layout." Now quiz use mw:Extension:Quiz and there does seem to be some requests connected with this listed at its phabricator board, in particular T172593 "Add new parameter for Style in Quiz ". Unfortunately they don't seem to have got anywhere. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 18:18, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ouch, if this can be done,Wikibooks can be more interactive . Thanks !

Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 04:51, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I really want to develop a dialog-based alternative to the quiz extension. (Yeah, yeah, it's taking way longer than it should.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 05:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

step by step
hello there, I'm a new member here, could you tell me step by step guide for a beginner like me?

--PutriAmalia1991 (discuss • contribs) 07:40, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, you can read the book Using Wikibooks online or in PDF. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:35, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Problem with reviewing
Well I've been doing some reviewing, but I am continually getting an error message when I try to do so:

"There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form."

I've tried: (a) logging in and out again; (b) clearing all by browser data; (c) updating my browser; but it doesn't seem to help very much. I use Firefox on Windows 7.

Resubmitting a review few times I'm eventually successful, but its a bit of a pain having to do this. Is anyone else having the same problem? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 13:49, 12 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Historically, I've sometimes gotten that error if I'm editing a page (for real, using an edit box; I never touch that VisualEditor abomination), spend an especially long time on the one display (not requesting a preview or diff), and then directly tell it to save. Several years ago I asked bawolff about it and he said iirc that that error should never happen.  I've gotten that error twice this morning when editing, and I wasn't being slow about it (nor have I done very much editing yet this morning).  So I'm guessing the devs deployed something just recently (perhaps overnight) that wasn't really ready for prime time yet. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:22, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * thanks for your reply. I don't think its a coincidence that we've both got that message recently, obviously something is up somewhere (!) Anyway it might be a short lived problem, so I'll see how it goes. I have had problems in the past that somehow just seem have gone away. At one point borders around boxes weren't rendering, but strangely it seemed to be device and browser dependent, so was rather strange; but not recently. But anyway I might open a bug at some point, but I'll see how it goes for the time being. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 20:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I just did a review with no problems. Also using Firefox. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:19, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Justin I've just tried too without problems. Maybe that's the end of it (for the time being at least). -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 21:30, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
''Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.''

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Postings on an English site that start with 'Sorry for writing this text in english' really give an impression of inattention by the poster. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I had given feedback to them on their meta talkpage, they said they will improve next round. This is their 1st MMS, shall we give them some slack?--Camouflaged Mirage (discuss • contribs) 17:18, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 'Twas just an observation. I'm glad to hear you found a more effective place to apply it, though. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:52, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Op Amp actual terms are used wrongly, need to correct the terms used.
Hi admins, kindly move this book from Practical Electronics/Operating amplifiers to Practical Electronics/Operational amplifiers as Op-amps is really referring to Operational Amplifiers : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier

Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 14:23, 2 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Encik, did you know that this can be done at Special:MovePage/Practical Electronics/Operating amplifiers? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:05, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah Mrjulesd, this is first time I seen this special pages, I move it right away! Thanks for your kind guidance Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 15:09, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. Btw take a look at WB:MOVE for more guidance. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:10, 2 February 2020 (UTC)