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Hello,

I wrote a compendium of architectural patterns and can donate it to Wikibooks. However, it contains hundreds of diagrams and probably above a thousand of cross-links, therefore it will take a lot of effort to translate it into the Wikibooks' web layout without some automation. I am too lazy to do that on my own. Moreover, the book is based in original research, which is not welcome here, as far as I know.

Please see if you want to accept the book and if you have volunteers to input it. I can provide access to the original Google Doc and LucidChart diagrams. Descri (discuss • contribs) 16:15, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello!

So I was just pressing random book and found this one https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Human_Body which is strange. I can find there \{\{Book is finished\}\} and \{\{status|25%\}\} on the same page. Idk what to consider finished but it seems it applies \{\{status|100%\}\}? But there is 25% too? Does "book is finished" applies some additional/alternative semantic from what I expect?

EDIT: this should belong to one of "... assistance reading room"? Seems too late though... DustDFG (discuss • contribs) 16:48, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

The banner reading "This book is finished" displays because {{Book is finished}} is at the beginning of the page Wikijunior:Human Body. You can also see a small legend in the center of the page breaking down completeness levels because {{Stages}} is present on this page. Finally, you will see a small box at the top right which indicates that the page is 25% done because toward the bottom of the page, there is {{status}} and it's rated {{status|25%}}. I think what's implicit here is that these seem to contradict each other and you're correct about that. If you're wondering how to harmonize these, I'd recommend removing {{Book is finished}}. You'll also see that several of the subpages in this book are rated 25% and 50% and many of pages that have no rating are barely started, such as Wikijunior:Human Body/Nose. I would definitely not call this "finished". —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:08, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, as Wikinews was moving to closure in a month, I am wondering if you wanted to open a new "book" for news following Wikinews workflows: there are some style and content requirements, a peer review process. And, a few days after an article is published, it becomes archived and is no longer editable. Then migration off-site to e.g. Miraheze can be avoided. This was not discussed in Wikinews internally, but I am wondering if this site would be open to such an addition. Gryllida 09:38, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Links: content guide, style guide, home page. Reviewers would need to apply for flagged revs permissions. Gryllida 09:40, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Note it was about all language editions, so some way for users to write in multiple languages would be needed. Gryllida 09:41, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

@Gryllida Thank you for letting us know! I think it would take a large community discussion to decide on something like this for a few reasons:

• News violates established Wikibooks policies (see WB:NEWS).
• News wouldn't fit neatly into our current content structuring, which is optimized for a different kind of content.

I'll let other people chime in here, but it seems on first glance like it would be a big sell. Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 19:23, 1 April 2026 (UTC)