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Info for new users
- Starting your first book
- Help:Starting a new page or book is a good resource. If you need specific help with something, ask at WB:HELP.
- Reporting vandalism
- Report vandalism in progress on-wiki or in #wikibooks. Say
!admin@enbooks in IRC to get attention. You can fix most vandalism yourself because this is a wiki. Users who fight vandalism may ask for rollback access.
- Why did you delete that?
- Check the deletion log for the reason (read any linked pages for details). Read the deletion policy. Check the VFD archives if applicable. If that doesn't answer your question, then ask. If you want it undeleted, ask at WB:VFU.
- What does {{query}} mean?
- This means that the page doesn't seem like the start of a textbook. Please leave a comment on the module's talk page if you are planning a textbook. If not, please replace {{query}} with {{delete|reason for deletion}}.
- What do {{no license}} {{bad fairuse}} or {{no rationale}} mean?
- All files uploaded to Wikibooks must have a license template and source; without that information, the upload will be deleted after 7 days. Please use {{information}} to provide this required information. Fair use images must have a {{fair use rationale}}. To add templates, do not re-upload the image. You must edit the image description page directly, the same way you do for other pages - click the edit this page tab. Wikibooks:Media has all the information you should need.
- Contacting me
- If I'm online, you can probably find me in #wikibooks (with the nick
Mike_lifeguard), which would be fastest. Otherwise, please leave me a message on my talk page. Please email me only when you need to contact me privately.
If you want to help
| Vandalism |
Look for vandalism in RC; fix it and warn the user. Large or tiny additions or deletions, replacing the page, and strange or offensive edit summaries are giveaways. Anon users are often the worst vandals. If there is repeated vandalism by one user, or lots of vandalism from many users, tell an admin on-wiki or in #wikibooks (say !admin@enbooks to get attention). Experienced vandal fighters may request rollback rights. |
| New Users |
New Users often make mistakes - if you find someone having trouble, give them a hand. If they're doing good work, welcome them with {{subst:bigwelcome|~~~~}}. Sometimes vandalism is found here as well. |
| Redirects |
To fix double redirects, make the first in the chain point to the last in the chain. All redirects should point to the current location of the content. To fix broken redirects, check if the page at the location that doesn't exist was moved elsewhere; if so, redirect to that location. If the target page is gone, or if you can create an orphan while fixing double redirects, then tag the orphan redirect with {{delete|orphan redirect}}. |
 Mike's English Wikibooks talk page
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Hello,
The Wikipedia JavaServer Pages article contains HowTo information about JSP which should not appear on Wikipedia and would be useful on the Java Programming/JSP page. I would like to transfer the page to wikibooks with the history information and merge the two pages on wikibooks. I think I have to ask an administrator for such an operation. Ftiercel (talk) 08:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Done - see Transwiki:JavaServer Pages. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:17, 16 September 2009 (UTC)- Spoke too soon... the xml is huge, and the import keeps timing out. I'll do the most recent revision, and maybe during lower traffic time I'll try again. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
- Thanx Ftiercel (talk) 09:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Open discussion about Wikibooks vs Wikiversity
I want to open a discussion about Wikibooks vs Wikiversity. On my opinion, these two sites are too similar and it duplicates the information. Learning books and universities have the same targets. You will have information on one site for a given language and you will find the equivalent on the other site for another language. What is your opinion ? Ftiercel (talk) 08:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
- If it's an open discussion, I may as well note my response when asked about potential areas of collaboration between the two on CQ's talk page on Wikiversity. The third paragraph there that relates to this discussion is that there are class projects on both sites and even we can't always tell whether they are better at Wikiversity or Wikibooks, as pointed out from the linked VfD discussion. A point to note is that Wikiversity used to be part of Wikibooks. I wouldn't have been in favor of the separation had I been here at the time, but I think it's highly unlikely that they would ever be merged together again. It would seem that Wikiversity has yet to fully distinguish itself from its former parent. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
- Open is open, so I'll chime in here. The key difference between WV & WB is that WV is intended for original research while WB prohibits it. The recent How to Use Wikibooks for My Students effort would have been better suited to WV IMO. --Jomegat (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming Mjquin_id to Mjquinn_id
I am asking for a rename; before I use the account here too much (and there is another one pending). Does WikiBooks need more admins? -- Mjquin id (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
- To do the rename, please show me a diff proving you own the account w:en:User:Mjquinn_id. We do need more administrators, but those would be drawn from the ranks of our current experienced editors. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 21:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Global rollback
Hi! I have a question for you, plis ask me: I'm a rollbacker in the English and Spanish wikipedia. I do rollbacks in the Spanish, english and deutsch wikipedia. With the global rollback, I will rollback the Catalan, Asturianu and Aragonés wikipedia too, so If I send a request for global rollback, the admin accept it? Thanks, --Javierito92 (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- Probably not -- but you're certainly welcome to join us for wider cross-wiki countervandalism efforts. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
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