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How to inform original authors of a work?
Hi!!!

When we create a wiki page with content from other places (whose license is compatible with our wikiproject), we need to cite the authors of the work. Commonly this is made through the edit summary (because it will be kept in the history of the page). Nonetheless, the current system for generation of PDFs only add the authors which have edited the page in the wiki, and we need to credit the real authors the same way we give credit to the wiki users.

That said, it is necessary to have some way of indicate in the collection page additional authors, so that they can be added to the list together with te wiki editors. Helder 13:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello!
 * Does anybody have updates on this problem? Helder 13:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Books are not remembered across sessions.
Create a book, log out, log back in, your book is gone. Try it!


 * Solutions: 1) Don't log out 2) Save your book in your userspace. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:50, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Bug: LaTeX formulas not shown in ODF files
I'm trying to get ODF files from math articles (and books at pt.wikibooks) but the formulas are not shown: This makes the files useless for such pages... =/ Helder 13:17, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=rendering&return_to=Special:Book&collection_id=2f98bc4ad3e57417&writer=odf

See the above bug report. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:49, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Revived by zoeith 07:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Problem with login at code.pediapress (continuation)
I'm still getting that error when trying to login. Were the website maintainers notified? Helder 13:38, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, but there's not much we can do without knowing more details. What's your current browser/OS, and can you log in with a different browser or is this a general problem? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It is a general problem. I've tried with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12 and also with Google Chrome 7.0.517.44 (and I remember of having tried IE some time, with the same problem). Here is a screenshot. Helder 18:56, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Alignment?
Is there a way to do either of the following for a downloaded PDF from here? (It's for a user page of mine.)

1) Get the "align" functions to work: If I have two tables, if I align one to the left and the other to the right, it won't apply to the PDF; one of them will be directly under the other. Is there a way to do so?

2) Force a page-break somewhere. If 1 can't be fulfilled, then what I would end up with is that one table is broken up at an undesirable point.

EDIT: A third alternative: 3) Increase the margins for the width of the page.

Are any of these possible to do for the PDF? Thanks in advance!

Aurora  Illumina  12:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * 1)Nope. Alignments aren't recognized, and the reason for this is that computer screens are much wider than a PDF page. If you really really want tables/images side by side, and you know it will fit in the PDF, you can always put the tables in a table.


 * 2) Nope, but that's a good idea. I'll file a ticket for it.


 * 3) Nope, margins are fixed.


 * Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * For 2 it's better to specify where pagebreaks should be avoided (as in MediaWiki:Print.css atm.), rather then to force them. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help. I went with a different type of nested-table approach, but I think it's working now. Aurora   Illumina  19:06, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Uh-oh. Another problem encountered. My page is here: User:Aurora Illumina/Crossword5. What you see there is the desired output. However, when I download the PDF, it creates an extra blank column on the right side, and it doesn't fit on one page as desired. Any idea what's causing this problem? Aurora  Illumina  19:11, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, I fixed it. Aurora  Illumina  19:47, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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Question about "Print" versions of templates
I'm looking at harv and friends. There are eight templates that link from the text of an article to the citation at the bottom of the page (harv, harvnb, harvtxt, harvcol, harvcolnb, harvcoltxt, harvs and sfn. The oldest six templates all have a "Print" version, however the newest one (sfn) does not. I understand that I am not allowed to create a print version for this template. Can anyone who is familiar with this issue tell me how to handle the print version of sfn? CharlesGillingham (talk) 09:51, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The simplest way is to this make an edit protected request on the main template's talk page with the code ready for the print version. This way an admin (or someone with account creator rights) can create the page. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)