Using Wikibooks en.wikibooks.org November 21, 2015 On the 28th of April 2012 the contents of the English as well as German Wikibooks and Wikipedia projects were licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. A URI to this license is given in the list of figures on page 175. If this document is a derived work from the contents of one of these projects and the content was still licensed by the project under this license at the time of derivation this document has to be licensed under the same, a similar or a compatible license, as stated in section 4b of the license. The list of contributors is included in chapter Contributors on page 161. The licenses GPL, LGPL and GFDL are included in chapter Licenses on page 179, since this book and/or parts of it may or may not be licensed under one or more of these licenses, and thus require inclusion of these licenses. The licenses of the figures are given in the list of figures on page 175. This PDF was generated by the LATEX typesetting software. The LATEX source code is included as an attachment (source.7z.txt) in this PDF file. To extract the source from the PDF file, you can use the pdfdetach tool including in the poppler suite, or the http://www. pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ utility. Some PDF viewers may also let you save the attachment to a file. After extracting it from the PDF file you have to rename it to source.7z. To uncompress the resulting archive we recommend the use of http://www.7-zip.org/. The LATEX source itself was generated by a program written by Dirk Hünniger, which is freely available under an open source license from http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf. Contents 1 Using Wikibooks/Print version 3 2 About The Book 5 2.1 Who Wrote this Book? ............................. 5 2.2 How Is this Book Set up? ............................ 5 3 What Is Wikibooks 7 3.1 What is Wikibooks? ............................... 7 3.2 What is Wikimedia? ............................... 7 3.3 What is Wiki? .................................. 8 3.4 Wikitext ..................................... 8 3.5 Inclusion Criteria ................................. 8 4 Setting Up A User Account 11 4.1 The Advantages of Using a User Account ................... 11 4.2 Setting up a User Account ............................ 12 4.3 Choosing a Username .............................. 13 4.4 Choosing a Good Password ........................... 14 4.5 New User Restrictions .............................. 15 4.6 User Page ..................................... 16 4.7 Your Contributions ................................ 17 5 Discussion and Consensus 19 5.1 Who Makes Decisions? .............................. 19 5.2 How are Decisions Made? ............................ 19 5.3 The Reading Room ............................... 20 5.4 Discussion Rooms ................................ 20 5.5 Posting a New Message ............................. 21 6 Policy and Guidelines 23 6.1 Policy and Guidelines .............................. 23 6.2 Changing Policy ................................. 24 6.3 List ........................................ 25 7 How To Edit A Wikibook 29 7.1 Editing Wikitext ................................. 29 7.2 How to Edit .................................... 29 7.3 Diffs ........................................ 32 7.4 Copyediting .................................... 33 7.5 Adding Pages ................................... 33 III Contents 7.6 Moving and Renaming Pages .......................... 33 7.7 ”Tagging” ..................................... 34 8 Wiki-Markup 37 8.1 Wikitext Basics .................................. 37 8.2 Paragraphs .................................... 37 8.3 Formatting: Bold and Italics .......................... 38 8.4 Bulleted and Numbered Lists .......................... 39 8.5 Preformatted Text ................................ 40 8.6 Page Links .................................... 40 8.7 Questions ..................................... 42 9 Cleanup and Maintenance 43 9.1 Ways to Help ................................... 43 9.2 Page Patrolling .................................. 44 9.3 Copyvios and Files ................................ 44 9.4 Moves and Mergers ................................ 45 9.5 New Books and Organizing ........................... 45 9.6 Orphans ...................................... 46 9.7 New Users ..................................... 46 9.8 Broken and Double Redirects .......................... 46 10 Advanced Techniques 47 10.1 Templates ..................................... 47 10.2 Template Parameters .............................. 49 10.3 Advanced Editing ................................ 50 10.4 HTML and CSS ................................. 51 10.5 Parser Functions ................................. 52 10.6 Math Tags .................................... 53 10.7 Dynamic Page Lists ............................... 53 11 Adding Images to Pages 55 11.1 Inserting an Image ................................ 56 11.2 Placing the Image ................................ 56 11.3 Resizing an Image ................................ 60 11.4 Thumbnailing an Image ............................. 61 12 Wikipedian Primer 63 12.1 Textbooks vs. Encyclopedia Articles ...................... 63 12.2 ”Bookify”and Book-Like Formatting ...................... 64 12.3 Wikipedian FAQ ................................. 64 12.4 How you can help ................................ 66 13 Class Project Guidelines 67 13.1 Starting a Class Project ............................. 67 13.2 Register your participants ............................ 68 13.3 Grading ...................................... 68 13.4 Understand the community ........................... 69 13.5 Finding materials ................................. 71 IV Contents 13.6 Get help when you need it ............................ 71 13.7 Become Part of the Community ......................... 72 14 Starting a New Book 73 15 Starting a new page or book 75 15.1 Why contribute? ................................. 76 15.2 Who contributes? ................................ 77 15.3 Why not to contribute? ............................. 78 15.4 Starting a book .................................. 79 16 Contributing To An Existing Wikibook 83 16.1 New or Existing? ................................. 83 16.2 Book Definitions ................................. 84 16.3 Books and Communities ............................. 85 16.4 Rewriting a Book ................................. 88 16.5 Merging Books .................................. 89 17 Starting A New Wikibook 91 17.1 What Is a ”Wikibook”? ............................. 91 17.2 Creating a New Book .............................. 92 17.3 Picking a Title .................................. 94 17.4 How to Start a New Book ............................ 95 17.5 Find an Example ................................. 96 17.6 Hijacking Redirects ................................ 96 17.7 Donating an Existing Book ........................... 96 18 Donating a Book to Wikibooks 97 18.1 E-Book Authors ................................. 97 18.2 Donating Books ................................. 97 18.3 Converting to Wikitext ............................. 99 19 How To Structure A Wikibook 101 19.1 Planning ..................................... 101 19.2 Titles and Naming Conventions . 101 19.3 Design Patterns ................................. 102 19.4 Page Header and Navigation Templates . 105 20 Subjects, Categories, and Classifications 107 20.1 Subjects and categories ............................. 107 20.2 Filing your book’s main page . 108 20.3 Filing your book’s chapters and pages . 109 21 Attracting Readers 113 21.1 Advertising .................................... 113 21.2 Categorization Templates ............................ 113 21.3 Featured Books .................................. 113 21.4 Blogosphere .................................... 114 21.5 Forums and Chatrooms ............................. 114 V Contents 21.6 Schools and Universities ............................. 114 22 Print versions and PDFs 115 22.1 Print Versions .................................. 115 22.2 PDF versions ................................... 116 22.3 Collections Extension .............................. 116 23 Finding A Wikibook 119 23.1 Finding Books .................................. 119 23.2 Search ....................................... 119 23.3 Card Catalog Office ............................... 120 23.4 Featured Books .................................. 121 24 Printing A Wikibook 123 24.1 Taking it With You ............................... 123 24.2 Print Versions .................................. 123 24.3 PDF Versions ................................... 123 24.4 Collections .................................... 124 25 Using A Wikibook In A Classroom 125 25.1 Wikibooks in Class ................................ 125 25.2 Class and Group Projects ............................ 127 26 Correcting Errors 131 26.1 Errors ....................................... 131 26.2 Fixing Errors ................................... 131 26.3 Reviewing Pages ................................. 132 26.4 Getting Help ................................... 132 26.5 Becoming an Editor or Author . 133 27 Reviewing Pages 135 27.1 The Flaggedrevs Extension . 135 27.2 Reviewing a Page ................................ 135 27.3 Page Criteria ................................... 136 28 The Roles Of The Wikibooks Administrator 139 28.1 Administrators .................................. 139 28.2 Bureaucrats .................................... 140