Wikibooks:Reading room/Assistance

Welcome to the Assistance reading room where Wikibookians help each other solve problems encountered while contributing to books or otherwise taking part in the Wikibooks community.

Proposal: Wikijunior Logo

The proposed Wikijunior logo.

The proposed Wikijunior logo. Plain times new Roman font before colorful text popping out in handwriting. Can this be official. Reed102 (discuss • contribs) 17:15, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I think this should be proposed at Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals instead of here. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 17:17, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Note (very old, stale) discussion at m:Wikijunior project logo. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:48, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

A discussion in which the last post was made in 2007 is old, and if I reply, that's necroposting. Reed102 (discuss • contribs) 22:54, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm moving the discussion. Reed102 (discuss • contribs) 22:55, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

It's moved. Go to Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals to see. Reed102 (discuss • contribs) 22:58, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

yes also those appointments are approved ~2025-35121-60 (talk) 13:09, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Page in the wrong category

Looks like https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_10%2B_Recovery_Environment_(RE)_Notes doesn't belong to https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Code_templates but I can't find how it was added there DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 11:28, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

@DustDFG I'm not quite I'm sure what you mean here—could you clarify? —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:39, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@Kittycataclysm OK

1. You go to https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Code_templates

2. You see that there should be only templates

3. You stumble upon https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_10%2B_Recovery_Environment_(RE)_Notes in that category

4. You think that it is wrong and mistake

5. You go editing https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_10%2B_Recovery_Environment_(RE)_Notes to remove it from that category

6. There is no that category in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_10%2B_Recovery_Environment_(RE)_Notes so it is probably was added with some other template and I am not able to find how to remove it from there :( DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 06:50, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Fixed This was from Template:DDiv, which didn't have the category properly in the noinclude tags. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:09, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I am not sure if it is a "server cache" or anything else but the page is still showed in that category DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 10:07, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure why that is—I've purged the category page, to no avail. I think this is beyond my depth. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:38, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

How to include part of one page to another page?

What I need: there are several (sub)sections scattered around the book. And there is one separate page which includes all of them. When you change code in the original page it is changed in that "gather" page too. I need not collections. I am sure there exist solution. I've already seen several times how separate page is included into several other pages. I even can't find where I've seen that not to mention where to search for it DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 17:36, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Accidentally found answer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion searching for another DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 08:24, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Heya, I recommend using {{Excerpt}} because it makes sure there is only ever one "true" version of the text. There is no documentation page for it right now unfortunately; I am going to write one up shortly. In the meantime, an example of how to use it can be seen in the source code of the following page: C Programming/Alternative tokens#iso646.h huntertur (discuss • contribs) 23:54, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Exactly what I was searching for. Though docs seems to be in place DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 06:42, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

How to find all the places where the template is used?

I am interested in both direct and transitive use DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 20:46, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Go to the template page you are interested in, then click on What links here in the sidebar. This will take you to a page where you can see all uses of the template, though direct links to the template page are included in this list too by default. You can also go to Special:WhatLinksHere and set the page name and namespace accordingly. huntertur (discuss • contribs) 23:58, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Adding Wikibook's list of Featured Books to the Directory of OpenAccess Books

Apparently there is a Directory of Open Access Books, but I do not see any Wikibooks listed there:

https://directory.doabooks.org/discover?query=wikibook&submit=

DOAB does not allow for the addition of individual books but for collections of such books instead.

https://doabooks.org/en/publishers/join-doab

Could someone authorized to represent Wikibooks please add the featured books collection to DOAB? Thanks. Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 04:10, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Larsnooden! I took a look at this, and I'm not quite sure we meet the criteria for that for a few reasons. I'm also not sure editors here are authorized to represent Wikibooks per se. Thank you for raising it, though! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 22:56, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I guess the DOAB would also need adjust their requirements a little to accommodate Featured Wikibooks. I have tried sending an e-mail to them about the process to see if they have any interest in the material here. — Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 10:20, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

I heard back today from a DOAB representative via their ticketing system. They're standing by the review requirements outlined on their web page for now, but do accept subsets of catalogs as well as several forms of review. So it might be possible to get a subset of the featured books into DOAB if there is some will here. — Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 15:56, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

can't publish

Hello! My edit was blocked by the spam filter.

All content is my own work for the project "Educational Development of Great Britain".

Could an admin please review and approve the edit?

Thank you! Guliismailova (discuss • contribs) 06:39, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm new, can one just create a new book?

I'm new to Wikibooks, and I decided I want to make a book on rotating polytopes given vertices with rotation matrices, so can I just jump in and create the book, or are there prerequisite steps? From my searching, there doesn't seem to already be any book on the rotation of polytopes. CasualCycloneTracker180897 (discuss • contribs) 03:45, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@CasualCycloneTracker180897 you can certainly create a new book. Keep in mind that this project is relatively low activity, and creating a book takes a good amount of effort. You'll first need to decide on the scope of the book, making sure it falls into the WB scope, then create a main page and table of contents, as well as an introduction outlining the scope. I would personally recommend starting in your personal sandbox, and then moving to main space once you've gotten a solid start. Let me know if you have any questions! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 03:55, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Now that I saw the What is Wikibooks page, I think what I'm thinking of could fit better as a lecture in Wikiversity rather than a textbook in Wikibooks. Thanks for the guidance anyway! CasualCycloneTracker180897 (discuss • contribs) 03:59, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

No problem :) —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 04:00, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Is it normal to review my own changes?

Is it normal to review my own changes? It feels a bit not fair DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 12:03, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, there's no rule against it! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 03:13, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

What to do if I can't continue but know what to do?

Title is bad sorry so I will just describe fully what happened... And ask what to do in such situations

So I was doing one big style overhaul and along the way doing "excercepting" (example) of questions so the book has only one place where questions are stored and several places where they are displayed... But along the way I broke print version :/ I know how to repair it. But I am so tired of that so I won't do it. But I know what to do... Should I leave somewhere a notice about it or what to do in such situations? DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 17:44, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Are you saying that you plan to fix the error but not immediately? And you want to leave a note to let people know that you're aware of the error and planning to fix it? I also can't quite tell what the specific problematic edits were—if you can link to specific revisions, we can probably help pinpoint any issues! Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 19:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Tbh not that I want to really fix that... Maybe after I rest I could do it but not sure... There issue is that I replaced "review questions" sections on each page with a template. Which had a bad design choice: it doesn't take a parameter and deduces necessary section to excercept from the current page name so when it is placed in a page named print it shows that there is no such subsection in the questions page... But changing it will take editing each page again... I would just place a note on that page with a notice how to fix that... But is it a good idea? Probably there is a better way but what? DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 05:58, 6 December 2025 (UTC)