Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2021/May

Formatting assistance
Hello - can you please help me to fix why this is coming up bold?

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Osteopathic_Manipulative_Medicine/Cervical_Spine

In contents - 1.3 Treatment of Somatic Dysfunction of the Cervical Spine appears bold. I would not like this bolded. Thank you. I have looked through the source and cannot determine why this is happening.
 * I think I've fixed it, can you check? Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 07:28, 30 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes! Thank you! What did you do? :) 2601:88:8100:28C0:15EE:E43E:9FB6:D0A7 (discuss) 07:32, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The title itself was bolded; I removed it. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:52, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Open tag
Page information for Oberon/ETH_Oberon/2003-01-05/Native.Tool reports 1 missing end tag and 1 stripped tag. I haven't succeeded to find the tag which is opened and not closed. Someone please suggest an automated means to locate the opening tag. I don't know what is meant by "stripped tag"; it might be merely a consequence of the unclosed tag. Thx, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 18:49, 2 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I think a stripped tag is a closing tag without an opening tag. Now I've been looking at the page and I can't see any errors. Also I've tried markup validation (see w:Help:Markup validation) and it hasn't brought up anything. I think it might be a bug in the linter. Also if you replace the opening and closing span with an opening and closing div, the error ceases, but it also changes the formatting somewhat.
 * Overall I think it might be best to ignore this one. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 23:01, 2 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Some weeks back I tried changing the enclosing span to div and, yes, the format was damaged. I don't remember which page the test was applied to. Was contemplating the change for automated translation of any page.
 * I'd expect linter to show exactly which tag was open. Extension:Linter requires Parsoid. If the software is installed and configured, will it give something more specific than "open tag" or "1 open tag"? I'd rather not chase a possibility which won't help. Thx, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 00:35, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I doubt it, the linter is pretty well the same on English Wikipedia. However there is a ton of linter like sites on the Internet; search for "markup validation" or "HTML validation" on Google. Also if you install Notepad++, and open a copy of the source with encoding as HTML, it matches highlighted tags, and also matches highlighted brackets. So it makes keeping track of stripped and missing tags and also bracketed markup, that much easier, and is very helpful. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 09:45, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. The W3C Validator reports dozens of errors and warnings for a page in Wikimedia. The Dillo browser also lists errors. Debian Linux here. No Notepad but likely something can check matching of brackets, parentheses & etc. ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Another puzzling case. The betadocu page has page information reporting 5 errors. I haven't succeeded to find an error. For syntax highlighting, the Geany editor has been recommended. Regards ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 17:53, 6 May 2021 (UTC).
 * Yes, it's puzzling isn't it? No obvious errors in the wikitext; it brings up a lot of errors in HTML validation, which you can do nothing about. The validation errors are mainly due to the  coding that the Mediawiki software uses to indent text, which is strictly speaking syntactically incorrect. This can't be altered by the end-user. But no missing end tags are identified, which the linter says is the case.
 * I think it's just another case of the linter being buggy. Interesting about the Geany editor, presumably it does a similar job to Notepad++. I suppose you could ask somewhere like w:Wikipedia:Help desk or w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) in case I'm missing something, they might help; let me know if you crack it. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 01:15, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * LintHint can help editors track down these syntax errors. It occasionally shows two or more errors in the same location when there is really only a single problem to fix, but when it shows no more errors, you are usually done fixing things. Jonesey95 (discuss • contribs) 15:48, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip. I can see things got sorted out at w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), it was that pesky apostrophe markup creating errors. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:57, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

are there any book have the ebook format like epub/mobi?
see upper--Jonathan5566 (discuss • contribs) 03:41, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not aware of any. However there is a lot of pdf versions, see c:Category:English Wikibooks PDF and PDF versions. Also, you may be able to create your own from print versions, see https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ which can generate various formats including epub. Also see Help:Print versions for more info, generating pdf versions is usually easy using the sidebar link. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 07:40, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikijunior:North America
This book has serious potential to get off the ground and become a featured book, but it seems largely abandoned for the most part. I'd love to revive it, but I can't do it alone. Please let me know if you're interested in helping.SouthParkFan65 (discuss • contribs) 15:25, 16 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I work extensively in the Wikijunior World field, including Asia and Africa. I'd love to help as soon as my exams are over. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Atcovi Thank you! Any help is appreciated. SouthParkFan65 (discuss • contribs) 22:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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Best, JKoerner (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 18:19, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Question about licensing
Hi everyone,

if I publish a work that I authored on Wikibooks, can I publish the same work later as a copyrighted book with a publishing house? Or would that violate the terms of the CC license?

Thanks, --Dr.Viktor.B (discuss • contribs) 18:36, 23 May 2021 (UTC) (moved here from above)


 * usually that would violate the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, unless the book itself is published under a compatible license with CC-BY-SA. CC-BY-SA is a share-alike license, meaning any derivative works have to be released under the same or similar licence as the original. This is also called copyleft. I would imagine that publishing houses would not want to publish under a copyleft licence, although I might be wrong in this regard. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 13:23, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

New book: Epistemology
Hi, I've moved over a book I've been working on from my sandbox to its own page at Epistemology. Any editors here who happen to know about the subject and want to help out are very welcome to contribute and add anything they think will improve the book. It's only partially worked on so far but I hope to come back to it every now and then to improve and add to it until it's done. I'm not massively knowledgeable of how Wikibooks works or how to make my book fit guidelines, accessibility, etc. so help there would also be appreciated if the book needs it. Thanks. ShayMTR (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

To add information on passports under Citizenship and Nationality per country
As passports are normally issued to citizens and nationals per country, any comment before I add a page like "Citizenship and Nationality/United States/Passports"? If okay, should the page be suffixed plural "Passports"? I also plan to start "Citizenship and Nationality/United States/Naturalization".--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 05:12, 28 May 2021 (UTC)