Wikibooks talk:Reading room/Archives

Searching the archives
Why is there no input box that allows readers to search these archives for specific text? -- OlEnglish (talk) 20:01, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

RfP archives
The removal of the archives box from WB:RFP does clean up the page a bit, but the "new" archives listing (using Special:Prefixindex) doesn't list the dates. Could that information possibly be re-added on this page? Xerol Oplan (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll combine the archives slightly and move them so that they are named by year, the way the RFIs are currently archived. – Adrignola talk 00:39, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

2004
I hadn't added 2004 explicitly because it only applied to one set of archives. I worry about it becoming too wide in the long run. – Adrignola discuss 17:27, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * In the long run, it will get too wide anyway; this only makes a difference of one year in when that will happen. When depends on the display device; a smartphone is one thing, a widescreen laptop another.  On my oldfangled laptop, this means it'll be too wide in 2026 instead of 2027.


 * The table seems to me like the natural place to put it; it surely has to go somewhere, as the point of this page is to provide links to all the archives. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, the first link detailing the page the archives are for is coded to show all the archives, even for early years not in the table. So that's why I hadn't been concerned about 2004 not being in the table.  There's one for 2003 too. – Adrignola discuss 18:49, 16 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hm. One reaction would be that we should add yet another column for 2003 :-).  That is, actually, what I'd do left to my own devices, but I don't wish to push your forbearance.  On the other hand, from the fact that even in ferreting out the 2004 archives I overlooked the 2003 ones, it seems clear that there needs to be some sort of explicit acknowledgment on the page that they go back further.  Perhaps I can come up with an alternative.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:25, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah! I see Darklama has suggested an alternative.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 16 January 2011 (UTC)