Dan Polansky

Dan Polansky is a contributor to Wikibooks and Wiktionary (Wiktionary:User:Dan Polansky).

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cs-N Tomuto uživateli je čeština mateřským jazykem.
en-3 This user can read and write fluently in English.
de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.
sk-1 Tento redaktor má základné znalosti slovenčiny.
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AdminsEdit

See also Wikibooks:Administrators

• User:Mike.lifeguard
• User:Whiteknight (his blog on Wikibooks)

BooksEdit

• General
  • Rhetoric and Composition - Featured and great. Recent changes
  • Shaving
  • Consciousness Studies
  • Managing Groups and Teams
• Computing
  • How To Search/Google
  • Java Programming
  • CSS - Recent changes
  • JavaScript - Recent changes
  • Inkscape - A stub. Recent changes
  • LaTeX - Is featured. Recent changes
  • HyperText Markup Language - Recent changes
  • MediaWiki User Guide - Recent changes
  • Regular Expressions
  • GIMP - Recent changes
• Psychology
  • Consciousness Studies
  • Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

BookshelfEdit

• Wikibooks:Bookshelves
• Wikibooks:Departments
• Wikibooks:Subject pages
• Bookshelves are deprecated, says my talk page.

CapitalizationEdit

Capitalization of sections: no policy. See also Wikibooks:Reading room/Assistance#Capitalization_of_sections.

Capitalization of sections in featured books

Featured book	Capitalization of sections	Note
Rhetoric and Composition	title case
Special Relativity	sentence case
Lucid Dreaming	mixed, mostly sentence case
Guitar	title case
C_Sharp_Programming	mixed, mostly sentence case
Anatomy and Physiology of Animals	title case
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine	title case

CategoryEdit

• Each book chapter should be placed into a category sharing the name with the book. {{chapter navigation}} does it automatically. Alternative: {{BookCat}}.

DeletionEdit

• Wikibooks:Votes for deletion
• Wikibooks:Deletion policy
• {{vfd}} – vote for deletion.
• {{delete|justification for speedy deletion}} – request for speedy deletion

Featured booksEdit

Featured books:

• Wikibooks:Featured books
• Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations
• Wikibooks:Featured books/Templates - contains lists of featured books
• Category:Featured books

FormattingEdit

Table formatting

Formatting	Note
class: prettytable
class: wikitable	Looks just like prettytable. Looks differently from wikipedia.
{{prettytable}}	Looks just like the two above.

IconsEdit

• {{done}} - Done
• Person's position:

{{subst:icon|info}}

{{subst:icon|keep}}

{{subst:icon|delete}}

{{subst:icon|merge}}

{{subst:icon|transwiki}}

{{subst:icon|redirect}}

{{subst:icon|comment}}

InclusionEdit

Inclusion criteria, on original research: WB:WIW.

IndexEdit

• JavaScript/Index
• LaTeX/Index
• {{CompactTOC}}

LinksEdit

• Wikibooks:Welcome
• WB:PAG -- policies
• Category:Wikibooks policies
• Wikibooks:Bookshelves
• Wikibooks:Naming policy
• Using Wikibooks
• /monobook.css

MovingEdit

• To move a whole book: TODO.

NavigationEdit

• {{prognav}}
• {{chapter navigation}} - used by Rhetoric and Composition
• Category:Navigational templates

NotesEdit

• TOC
  • Some on the main page - LaTeX
  • Some in a dedicated chapter, to which the main book page redirects.
    • JavaScript/Contents
    • Principles of Economics/Contents
• TOC title
  • "Contents" - preferred per WB:MOS
  • ""Table of contents"
• Contributors
  • Where to put them?
  • None - LaTeX, and some other featured books.
  • Javascript/Appendices/List of Contributors

PoliciesEdit

Wikibooks policies:

• WB:PAG - Guide to the policies and guidelines that are generally accepted and considered important — even essential — by the project's founders and community.
• WB:MOS - Manual of Style
  1. Titling
  2. Structure
     1. Title pages
     2. Main pages
     3. Print versions
     4. Internal
        1. Linking
        2. Headers
  3. Content layout
     1. Mathematics
        1. HTML guidelines
        2. Display guidelines
     2. Footnotes and references
• Category:Wikibooks policies
• Wikibooks:Bookshelves - On how to manage bookshelves. Rather rudimentary.
• Wikibooks:Naming policy - How to name books and chapters, using "/". Seems to use title case. Naming of sections seems to be missing.
• Wikibooks:Deletion policy
• Using_Wikibooks/The_Wikibooks_Writer - was a guide

Print versionEdit

• {{Print version}}
• {{Print entry}}
• Case: HyperText_Markup_Language/Print_version
• <!--__NOTOC__-->__NOEDITSECTION__

RoomsEdit

• Wikibooks:Reading_room
• Wikibooks:Reading_room/Assistance
• Wikibooks:Votes for deletion

RulesEdit

• Book chapters have no categories, only the books; they have the one category named exactly same as the book.
• Do not create two-paragraph stubs or placeholders of books. If you want to create a book, do it in a greater scope to get it started. A link to a policy is missing.

SubpagesEdit

Dan Polansky/C++ programming Dan Polansky/monobook.css

TemplatesEdit

Templates:

• {{tlx}}
• {{delete}} - Speedy deletion.
• {{vfd}} - Request for deletion.
• {{Todo}}
• {{dynamic navigation}}
• {{Sample|sampletext|caption eq}}
• {{Print version}}
• {{PDF version}}
• {{bi}} - book with infobox
• {{rc}} - recent changes
• {{mbox}} - for building message templates
• {{Warning}}
• {{Print entry}}
• {{Subpages link}}