Wikibooks:Reading room/Technical Assistance

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Problem with putting the background image in html

I am failed to upload the background image in html plse give me some exmaple to this problem and some theroy and also tell the html s best books name —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikas royal king (discuss • contribs) 09:03, 26 October 2012‎

Mars Book 1

I am having problems saving PDF file. I get invalid annotation error. Using Windows 7, IE 9.0.12 64Bit.

Help test the new account creation and login

Hi all,

After many weeks of testing, We (the editor engagement experiments team) are is getting close to enabling redesigns of the account creation and login pages. (There's more background about how we got here and why ‎our blog post.)

Right now are trying to identify any final bugs before we enable new defaults. This is where we really need your help: for now, we don't want to disrupt these critical functions if there are outstanding bugs or mistranslated interface messages. So for about a week, the new designs are opt-in only for testing purposes, and it would be wonderful if you could give them a try. Here's how:

• Go to account creation and add &useNew=1 to the URL, or just use this link
• Go to login and add &useNew=1 to the URL, or just use this link

If you have questions about how to test this or why something might be the way it is, I'd definitely check out our step-by-step testing guide and the general documentation.

Many thanks, Steven (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 19:45, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

I noticed the "(help me choose)" link on the en Wikibooks' new account form didn't work, because this wiki didn't have a Wikibooks:Username_policy page. But you have a section in Using Wikibooks/Setting Up A User Account, so I made it a redirect to that. Wikibooks admins need to do something similar for the other two links, see mw:Account creation user experience/Testing#Providing help links. Also, does Wikibooks in other languages have similar pages? If so, maybe bilingual admins can make similar changes to their pages. Thanks, let me know how we can improve this. -- S Page (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 15 May 2013 (UTC)