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Three cheers! And thanks Walter... that's been a big gap for us. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 22:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for the welcome! I've already brought some of my favorite Counter-Vandalism tools. I hope that that they can be of use to some of the other Counter-Vandalism Unit members. --Az1568 03:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Whiteknight You are a national hero for putting all this free learning information on the web! You have some great ones out there. Myself I'm new to the wikiworld but so far I like what I see. I've always been a firm believer of making education more accessable to the public and not just for the people with silver spoons in their mouths. I tried to edit a page, make a book suggestion but I'm not sure that I did it right my handle is pvpurcell I think. If that is how the wikipeople communicate back and forth by their pages. You might have sensed that I'm not quite the computer whiz. Anything helpfull you have to say to me would be appreciated as later mentioned my handle is pvpurcell or you could do it the old fashion way pvpurcell@yahoo.com. If you know the link to get questions answered you could forward it to me if you wish. Like I said earlier your a national hero keep up the good work!

Projects for School Classes

I just had a question about these books that are being assigned for classes... is it wrong for contributors who are not part of the class to edit the wiki pages? I don't normally have a problem with editing things (though I am fairly new to it), but with this I think it kind of creates a conflict of interest, since even though it's a wiki, the students' grades will be affected by how/if other users edit their pages... so I'd just like to know, what do you think about this? Is there some policy regarding this?

Thank you!

Mattb112885 04:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

This is en:User:TUF-KAT. I'd like to think I'll have time to help out at Wikibooks in the near future, but I probably won't. I don't dispute de-adminship and de-bureaucratness, so consider the matter undisputed. As you pointed, I can always reapply if I become active again. Thanks for letting me know. 68.69.14.84 12:48, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Administrators discussion

Yes, I know about the standards requests and was the one to make the requests the last time we had de-adminships here. All that we must show is our consensus decision which I outlined at the beginning of the section, linking to the policy and all. The Stewards should make it an immediate action then. -withinfocus 22:41, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I definitely understand that it's not a punishment and that's why I wanted a clear-cut policy for cleaning up around here. People make it a personal matter when it's about making the project look bad. Having a huge list of inactive sysops, users that might be contacted by a new user, users who have never even used the tools anyway, are detrimental to Wikibooks. Most of these users will just slide by as they should since they're inactive, but it's those taking it personally that get all bothered by it. They can be an admin at a later date if they wish, and of course special attention will be paid to them due to their past work. Making enemies is not what I want, I'd just like to clean up a little. -withinfocus 22:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot & images

Thanks! Johnny has just told me you and him have been thinking and talking about the way to manage this tagging. guillom 10:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Interesting In Helping

Hey, i've been having a look at the Algebra book and im interested in helping out and it seems like your the one in charge of whats going on with it (or at least the most active). I don't know alot of algebra (hence my interest in it), but perhaps i can help move things or organize. Let me know what kinds of things need to be done, and maybe i can help. Thanks. Phoenix7477

microprocessor design

I think it would be cool to have a book that gives tips on how to build a CPU. (Instead of discussing the history of microprocessors). My understanding is that many of the concepts (state machines, microcoding, ...) are the same whether one is building it out of individual transistors, TTL chips, or programming an FPGA.

On the other hand,

• Many techniques don't make sense in a hand-wired CPU (multi-level caching, transistor sizing, out-of-order execution ...).
• Many techniques don't make much sense in a commercial custom VLSI CPU (plug-in boards, LEDs, 4 bit busses, minimizing the number of different kinds of TTL chips used).

I'm tempted to put my rough draft as an appendix to Digital Circuits.

Or should this go in the proposed User:Whiteknight/Microprocessor Design book?

I hope User talk:JeffreyMeunier and some of the people on the the people on the Homebuilt CPUs WebRing help edit this book.

--DavidCary 12:22, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Dont kill discrete maths.

Discrete maths is import for programing, and a number of computer concepts. I would recomend, that even if you move the topics you retain the heading with links to those topics. I have come apon this page looking for discrete maths specifically please dont remove it completely and leave me in the dark concening discrete maths.

The idea isn't to get rid of the Discrete Math book entirely. Instead, I want to take the information that doesnt belong in that book, and put it in a more appropriate place. I am not going to delete the book, nor any of the valuable information in it. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Navigational template

Hi, Hope you're feeling better. I need your help in creating the navigational template for Genes, Technology, and Policy document. Thanks.

Done. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you please make a comment also... txs

We are discussing GFDL and wikibooks and book communities, rights and what nots in "Call for comments" a future policy could and probably should emerge from that discussion in not only to clarify things to all users.--Panic 17:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Policy and guideline categories

Just in case it slipped under your radar, I proposed a change to the categorization of policies and guidelines a fair while ago. I advertised the whole PAG cleanup in the Staff lounge but no-one bit. Since you do a lot of PAG stuff and it looks like you weren't around when I put the proposal forth, I figured I'd give you a heads up.

If you don't mind, I'd like to do this soon as I hope it will clear things up a bit and give us a better overview of the PAG proposal process. --Swift 08:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The following comment copied from User talk:Swift#WB:PAG

I agree with your proposal that the guideline/policy categories should be merged. A few months back, wikibooks didn't have any guideline categories at all, and I had to create them along with the necessary templates. It seems I didn't do the most efficient job at it.

Definately make that change, I dont have time today to help out with it, but i should be around later tonight briefly, and much of the morning tomorrow to help out with it. Not that you need alot of help to do this, but it's polite to offer. :) --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 13:29, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've started, but have only been investing occational free moments between other tasks. Thanks for your offer to help, but I should manage to finish this off tonight when I get a little more solid free time. --Swift 22:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Programming:Perl, Perl Wikibot, etc...

I saw your comment at Talk:Programming:Perl and I'm wondering if you're still interested in Perl bots and such. We've recently opened Wikia:Perl and v:Topic:Perl. We're looking for participants and contributors if you're still interested in Perl. We might even import Programming:Perl to Wikiversity if it's feasible. CQuinton 01:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

bot categorization...

Sure... just aim it at books with a lot of chapters. I actually just did a bunch of them, but some of the larger books I haven't touched yet, as I'm mostly looking at the small ones or main booktitles, many of which are vandalism (suprise!).

Whatever you do, don't categorize the wikiversity pages. We (as in the wikiversity admins) need those to stay uncategorized so we can find them and import to where they belong (after they're imported, we add a template that auto-adds a category).

Robert's going to panic... the uncatted pages list will be pretty small by the next update. They are, however, categorized in a nice, systematic way.

BTW, I'm hoping that once the catting is done (at least to the how-to arena) that I can start experimenting with a new bookshelf scheme: I'd like to see them become easier on the eyes, and have some annotations of the books rather than the wierd complete% icons (which don't seem very informative... how do you know that a book is 25% complete?). --SB_Johnny | ^talk 18:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

pagemerge fix

Hi Whiteknight,

Which page was [this actually merged to? There's a broken redirect pointing at it. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 16:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Guanaco

Not sure if CheckUser or anything would help with this, but I believe that User:Guanaco's account has been hijacked or is being used improperly. He/she has randomly started reverting a user's work which I believe is inappropriate in many places. It looks like a bot has been used and the sheer number of recent contributions will need a lot of reverting. I thought I would tell someone else about this and to take a look since I'm not sure what's going on. This may truly be admin rights abuse and will need to be addressed. Please tell me if I should address the community as a whole and not just individual users like yourself. Thanks. -withinfocus 20:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I think he's trying to help darklama undo some mistakes, see User_talk:KHatcher#Water_Resources_page_moves_and_Georgia_Water_Law. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 22:42, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

That's what I was figuring. Thanks for the heads-up. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 22:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Some of those reverts are double-redirects and I don't see why they should be brought back to what they were. Not all were about Georgia Water either and I saw that a few had to do with a book on Ruby that Darklama was fixing. Some of these operations are very "in the dark" and I think someone needs to inspect them. -withinfocus 00:21, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

books for the bot...

I'll add as they come up... there's been some very busy authors this week :) --SB_Johnny | ^talk 14:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

• Computer Networks - numerous pages, growing fast Done.
• Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine Done.
• Developing Genealogy Web-Pages Done.
• Kapampangan Done.
• Reconstruction - some pages may already be categorised... does that matter? Looks like most of the pages already are. --WK
• Radiation Oncology Already looks categorized. --WK
• The Cold War Done.
• Tutorials in Physics Done.
• Wikijunior The Elements Most of the pages are already categorized. --WK
• Technical Theatre -- use special:prefixindex without the / or : ...this book is currently half & half in compliance with WB:NP. (where's darklama?) Done.

Kapampangan

No problem, thanks, the Category:Kapampangan did not exist, so I just created it under the Category:Languages.

All links seems to work now. Lag 19:52, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Moving comments

I didn't want to be rude and do it without asking, but would you mind if the discussion on Wikibooks:Staff lounge#Policy/guideline proposal for the 42nd week of 2006 were moved to Category talk:Wikibooks proposed policies and guidelines#Proposal for the 42nd week of 2006. My proposal which you commented on is there in more detail and I think it would be a good idea to keep all the proposal discussions on that talk page. --Swift 21:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

The following comment copied from User talk:Swift#Moving proposal discussion

You can certainly feel free to move the discussion to a more appropriate location. Just make sure that you post a link at staff lounge to the new discussion. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 21:51, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, --Swift 04:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Question about Deletion Votes

I hope you don't mind me writing a message here but I saw that you're active on the votes for deletion page. Is it possible for any editors to vote on this page or is such a thing only supposed to be done by Admin and Beurocrats? I've voted in a few deletion votes but wasn't sure if this is allowed. Xania 21:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikibooks:Transwiki Rules

I rewrote this policy, to remove alot of the bullets, and add more prose. I hope you don't mind the changes I've made. We can revert them, or you can edit them if you think I mixed up your original plan for this proposal. Please let me know. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, no need to revert. I made a few modifications to your changes. --darklama 03:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Guanaco

I sent User:Guanaco a message at his wikipedia talk page, asking about why he reverted all your edits on the 15th. Hopefully, it is all just a misunderstanding. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I hope so. I saw the potential for someone mistaking it for vandilism. Could be their POV is much like SBJohnny's too. I'd appredicate knowing why it was done, since it came out of nowhere with no reason given. --darklama 03:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

He just ran his both through last night going after double-redirects by the way: mostly in the transwiki namespace... I get the feeling we're being watched :D. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

ICT in Education

Just to let you know that I am working on ICT in Education. Thanks.

creeping...

LOL, thanks. You forgot to use the import tool though ;-). Actually, you can still use it... just delete what you have, import it (you can import directly into the Wikibooks: namespace using the scrollbar), then restore the deleted versions. It's fun! --SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:05, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Nah, I was just jerkin your chain :). Would be a good way to see how the thing works though.--SB_Johnny | ^talk 13:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: ICT in Education

Thanks. I'm sure I will need your help as I progress along.

Thanks!

Thanks for helping get MATLAB Programming in shape!