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Welcome to the Assistance reading room. We assist new Wikibookians and Wikibookians writing new books get off to a great start.

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[edit] Selection of articles for kids on elementary schools

I am preparing sets of wikipedia articles for the OLPC project. For example this will be selection of some 1000 articles for biology on elementary school Wikislice biology - we could work together. I need help to make these selections for all major school subjects List of planned selections (physics, chemistry, mathematics, geography etc.). Wikibooks project can easily use these selections when they are ready to make wikibooks for these subjects. The selection will on the 100$ laptop and all kids will use it at school.

If you are interested in cooperation please contact User_talk:Arael2 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.229.220.105 (talk • contribs) 14:06, September 8, 2007.

[edit] Hello

Hello, I'm Burk. I've had this account for a good while, but I haven't really done much with it yet. I'm a graduate student in Mathematics, so I tend to focus more on that. I also have a good amount of experience with programming in TeX and LaTeX, and will see if I can't help work on the TeX page (at least if I have enough time). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Burk (talk • contribs) 08:38, September 11, 2007.

[edit] A short introduction

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Hi, My name is Mark Botirius and I believe that one of the greatest attributes to the culture of the United States has been it's attitude toward learning and education which goes all the way back to the birth of our nation. "We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information." Benjamin Franklin. He also said that "genius without education is like silver in the mine".

That's what makes the Wiki concept exceptional. It's like a universal public library. My only concern is whether the information found here is correct and accurate. Although I haven't seen any incorrect information I still wonder about the checks and balances. The scope and amount of information found here is vast and since anyone can edit (there must be literally millions who visit the site daily). How is it possible to keep up?

Regardless, I think it's an exceptional project and I would like to contribute if I can. I'm a good writer, but I have no clue on how the page formats work here and that makes it difficult to contribute. I've been playing the guitar for over 25 years and I've noticed that the information on music theory here is a great source for facts while at the same time offers little explanation. This would make it difficult for those with little or no music theory background to understand much of the information found here.

What I would like to do, if I can find the time, is write a book that is more explanation than information. Yes, the facts found in the book could, of course, already be found elsewhere on the Wiki website. However, the approach will be such that the reader will not only know the information but be able to explain the why behind it. It will be written in a form similar to that of a logical rationale which starts at a well defined and basic point and builds from there. Hopefully, others will like the approach and, through their contributions and edits, we create something that is less like a listing of facts and more conversational and explanatory. Something that concentrates more on principals than mechanics.

If anyone reads this, again, hello, and it's a pleasure to meet you.

[edit] rupee dollar relation

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hello i m navy I want to understand how and why changes occurs in the rupee dollar relationship.why the rupee appreciates and why deappreciates

[edit] Mothers' Day

Originally asked in the administrative assistance reading room.

I am doing a project which requires me to ind Mother's Day Dates for the last 40 years. Can you help please. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Roylewis (talk • contribs) 04:40, March 1, 2008.

[edit] Beamer

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Hello. I have been using Wiki for a while now, but I am new to Wiki Books. I am trying to create a guide which will help those coming to southern California on how to drive, Correctly.

Beamer

[edit] Hello to Everyone

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My goal in joining Wikibooks is to begin building a foundation of open-source collaboration in my 9-year-old son, John.

Currently he is a third grader in a small-town Texas public school system. This year his class has begun writing reports and doing research on assigned topics, so the time seems right to introduce him to web ethics, group collaboration via online community, and the differences between proprietary and open source systems.

Currently he is enthralled with Ben Franklin, and is rather disgusted at the differences between the information he is taught in school as opposed to what he has discovered through Wikipedia. He is interested in producing his own age-appropriate article on Franklin correcting the errors in his textbook, while I hope he will gain the skills to follow through with the project management and be able to introduce Wikibooks to his teacher and class for future projects.

[edit] Introducing User:Jwwicks (Talk) 11:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

My name is John Wm. Wicks. I'm a computer/web programmer in the Sacramento, Ca area. You can contact me through SourceForge http://www.sf.net at no_spam!j_wicks@users.sourceforge.net

I'm currently going back to college to get a Bachelors Degree in CSIS at Sacramento City College and I hope to transfer to Sacramento State University in 2009.

[edit] Starting a new WikiBook

I want to start a new WikiBook Punjabi. The purpose of the book is to help readers learn Punjabi, an Indian language. I want this in Languages/Asian category. I started a module for the book but it is threatening that it will be automatically considered a candidate for fast delete.

Can I have some get some help?

jaspal 18:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Jaspal, welcome to Wikibooks. What is the title of your book? I'll take a look at it and help to ensure it won't get deleted. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 18:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Whiteknight. The title of the book is Punjabi. But I gues the issue got sorted out. But pl do confirm. I shall be grateful. I am new and shall greatly value any more suggestions.

jaspal 07:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I have added a template to your book, {{New book}}. Please keep this template on the book for at least 1 week, and preferrably longer. This template helps people to find and monitor new books, and demonstrates that your page is a book and not an article (articles get deleted). If you have any other questions, please let me know. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:26, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categorising my article

Hi

I originally wrote this article up (see link below) in Test-Wiki but it was deleted in time. Now I have put it in Wikibooks and need to categorise it into this grouping How-To Guides - Model Railways - Computer Control.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Working_Rocrail_with_Hornby_Elite_DCC_Controller

The instructions for doing this are not very clear, especially for generating a new category, so if someone could please advise me or even amend the article to suit that would be appreciated.

Thanks, Robbie RAFHAAA96 (talk) 14:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

You will likely want to search through WB:AS to choose better categorizations. When you have done so, you can add them using {{Subject|category1|category2|...}} at the bottom of the page.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 15:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Filling in the wikibook outline

Hi all!

I have just started a wikibook. It also means I am beginner.

my book is Computers & Society and I have just made book and chapter outline

I can only work on this few hours per day (real day job gets in the way)

I use placeholder text...

but am getting Wikibookean queries on this?

any other way to give outline structure to be filled in?

thanx in advance

--Михал Орела 11:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Those are probably from me. As long as you're planning to put some content there soon, just put a note on the talk page for the tagged module and/or remove the {{query}} template. Creating modules with no content as a placeholder is mostly useless, and mildly annoying - they often get forgotten, leaving empty pages laying around being useless. As I say - if they're going to be filled with content, there's no problem.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 23:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] circus act

Hi, my name is Franki.. I would like to know how I would get started in Saudi doing research? The years would have been around 1904.

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