Wikibooks:Reading room/Bulletin Board
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January 2010
- Comments in local time
- A new gadget has been made available that will change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time. It even shows which comments have been made today and the days of the week comments have been posted on. This makes reading of discussions easier. The gadget also streamlines manual archiving of discussions through the display of the time elapsed since a comment has been made. It can be enabled by visiting your preferences and selecting the comments in local time gadget under the browsing gadgets section.
December 2009
- Uploading Images
- The link to upload images now directs users to upload images to Commons. Uploading files locally can only be done at Special:Upload and then only by administrators or those specifically granted the uploader right. This allows fair use images, prohibited at Commons, to be uploaded here, while all files with compatible licenses can be made available to all the Wikimedia projects at Commons. Users who have uploaded files here already will still be able to upload new versions of those files. If you need to upload a fair-use file and are not an administrator, you can either ask an administrator or an uploader to do so or request the uploader right at Wikibooks:Requests for permissions.
- Adrignola
- Adrignola's nomination for Bureaucrat was successful. The Check User nomination remains ongoing.
- Adrignola has been nominated for Bureaucrat and for Check User. Please visit WB:RFP and weigh in on this matter of vital importance to Wikibooks.
November 2009
- Whiteknight
- Whiteknight, a long-time administrator here at Wikibooks, has resigned his bureaucrat, checkuser, and administrator positions. From his user page: "Due to a severe shortage of time, I am no longer able to be an active member of the Wikibooks project." The Wikibooks community thanks him for his significant contributions over the years.
August 2009
- Slashdot
- Ask Slashdot: Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook? Anyone care to comment? Hesperian (talk) 04:12, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
March 2009
- Toolserver replication error
- Tool problems on the Toolserver for English Wikibooks have now been resolved following the installation of a new server. See the toolserver journal for more information.
January 2009
- Wikibooks has a new logo
- Wikibooks' new logo, shown here, has been chosen and will be put up on the site soon. Thanks to all who submitted potential logos, and those who helped judge and improve them. Further ideas for marketing Wikibooks are welcome at Wikibooks:Reading room/General.
- Toolserver replication error
- Tools on the Toolserver for English Wikibooks will be severely out of date due to technical issues. Following maintenance on the toolserver, binlogs for s3 were deleted by mistake, breaking replication for the smaller wikis. This will be remedied when the toolserver acquires new hardware in approximately one month. See the toolserver journal for more information.
