Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2016/September

The Weblogs wikibook
The SQA unit DN81 11 Weblogs has been revised by H60D 45 Weblogs and will finish on 31/07/2016.

Is it Ok to update the existing wikibook for older unit DN81 11 to reflect changes or would it be best to create a new Wikibook for new unit H60D 45. Please advise:) a very new-to - wikibooks member keen to re-purpose existing content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Le01ja (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 5 September 2016
 * I think that you can update An Introduction to Weblogs. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:42, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Linking policy
Wikibooks does not have a clear policy on linking like Wikivoyage and users are free to do anyhow they like. I think this is a big problem in a wiki project. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 06:19, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I had the same thought a few years ago, but Spam is a good basis. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The place to look for these sorts of things is Using Wikibooks; it's probably addressed in there somewhere. We pin down some specific things that have to do with how our machinery works (such as BookCat, subjects, status), but otherwise we tend to go for broad principles (rather than highly regimented policies like the Wikivoyage one mentioned).  There is, after all, a lot of leeway in how one can set up a book &mdash; in a certain sense Wikibooks is a confederation of about 3000 micro-projects (sharing some common principles and banding together for shared administrative infrastructure since most of them are far too small individually to warrant a whole wiki to themselves).  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:52, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * In a certain sense Wikibooks is a confederation of about 3000 micro-projects! Maybe you are talking about sub-projects: Cookbook and Wikijunior. So they should get independent to gain a better condition. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 17:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * No, separate project status would not improve their condition, it would degrade their condition. The confederation isn't random, and Cookbook and Wikijunior benefit from being part of it.  (Wikijunior is, btw, not "a" member of the confederation, but a bunch of members, and Cookbook demonstrates that the distinction between a single member and a collection of related members is itself sometimes fuzzy.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm learning new thing which I couldn't find in What is Wikibooks?! It's only written that "Wikibooks includes both minor and major book-like projects." It seems vague to me. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 07:35, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Personally I vote to revert or at least rewrite [//en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_Write_an_Essay/Parts&oldid=3073150&diff=cur this kind of link addition] to avoid: That's a kind of Wikipedia policy. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:33, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) any external link out of the references paragraph
 * 2) any link whose site is not a reference.
 * Pretty much, yes. The exact nature of the exceptions will vary a bit from book to book, but generally one tries, over time, to find alternative ways to handle them.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:02, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Small books
On the French and Portuguese Wikibooks we use a categorizing template on the books which seem finished but are too small to be split on several pages, and are not broadsheets to integrate elsewhere. That's why I've created Small book here and posted it on a first example to get your approval: Audiovisual Translation Modes. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:34, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added broadsheet to be more precise in our maintenance tasks. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:33, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

New Template Request
Hello, I need a new template named MongolUnicode-div in order to support advanced display of Manchu script. Such a template already exists on Wiki Incubator. You can just copy it here. Can you help me? Thanks.--Obonggi (discuss • contribs) 19:01, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Wp/mnc/MongolUnicode-div. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:20, 22 September 2016 (UTC)