Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2012/September

Proposition : start new chapter automatically on odd pages
One should be able to make articles, or at least chapters, always starting on odd pages. It becomes problematic when one is not quite sure if the book is worth for printing in one shot, especially if it is big and with many pictures, regarding to the paper and ink consumption, so printing just a chapter or some articles may be for most of us the first step of printing it. When some chapters or articles are already printed, printing the remaining parts of the book may be problematic if the even pages become odd pages, and odd become even.

Broune (talk) 14:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Book Creator - multiple problems
I don't know if it's me, my browsers, my account or Wikipedia

The specific book I'm referring to is User:Folder1/Books/Station to Station, but I've been having problems for at least a week with another book.
 * 1) When I save a book (in my namespace), neither the title nor subtitle are saved (I've saved it multiple times; articles are saved under my username, but nothing else).
 * 2) I cannot move articles around in the Book Creator. The cursor doesn't change to a hand, so all I can do is keep articles, which then stay in the order in which I added them.
 * 3) I don't see the Create Chapter button. It's gone.

I am not even certain what else might be missing, but this is very confusing. Here is what I have tried:
 * 1) Opening Book Creator in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer; results are the same no matter which browser I use.
 * 2) Shutting down my firewall software and using the Microsoft Firewall, which doeesn't block very much. No luck there, either.
 * 3) Checked my hosts file, which is blocking nothing.

Sorry, but I am lost, and honestly hope that I'm posting this to the right place (if not, I apologize; please point me in the right direction and blame it on 3am). I have including a screenshot showing Book Creator as I'm seeing it, although the cursor problem isn't visible there. Please help if you can, and thanks.

username: folder1; real name: Peter F (talk) 07:17, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * This seems like a good place to report it but it has also been reported at Help talk:Books and 39827. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:12, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I have the same problem Rourke (talk) 22:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, PrimeHunter and Rourke. Glad (in a sick way) that it's not just me. This problem stopped for a while and started back up today. WinXP, IE8, Firefox 15.0.1, Chrome. I can't move articles within a book I've created. Can't create chapters; can't even see the button. Can't save the book title. Can't do diddley except add articles ad infinitum.

If one other person is reporting this problem, that means many more people have it but are not reporting it (here, at least). I like Wikipedia, I use it daily. but this one time when not having a clear "hierarchy" (or at least a clear Help page...) is annoying. I'll check the pages that PrimeHunter mentioned.

username: folder1; real name: Peter F (talk) 00:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * You can edit a saved book as a wiki page without relying on the Book creator tool. See Help:Books/for experts. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:51, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * If you mean by using [edit], I should've noted that [edit] has also disappeared from (at least my) Book Creator. But thank you for mentioning it.


 * As far as the book I was working on, it was short. I trashed it, redid it, added articles in the order in which I wanted them. No chapters, not a great solution, but I needed something... username: folder1; real name: Peter F (talk) 03:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * [edit] should only be there if you have section headings using the  notation like in User:Folder1/Books/Anti-Piracy Schemes Gone Wild! Chapters use a leading semicolon instead but you can always click the "Edit" tab at top of the page. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:48, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The problems have now been fixed. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Why does a book download as a php file?
Shrdlu junction (talk) 04:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Chinese characters and Sony Ebook reader
I created an EPUB file with articles containing Chinese characters, and these don't display on the Sony readers (PRS-T1 and -T2); I found a hack online (last post on the page), that consists of adding four lines to the CSS of every EPUB, and was wondering if it's possible to customize the book creation on Wikipedia so that those lines are added every time for me (or alternatively, for everybody, so that others don't have trouble reading Chinese on the Sony gadgets). Yes, this is a bug from Sony, but I think the Wikipedia community is probably more flexible in making this work :) Thanks for this great feature!! --Sarefo (talk) 15:36, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Bug: missing links
The generated EPUB misses some links to pages, which are inside the book. The simplest steps to reproduce:
 * 1) start a new book
 * 2) go to Uffizi page and add it to the book
 * 3) on the Uffizi page, in chapter Collections add both Leonardo da Vinci paintings to the book (The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi)
 * 4) generate EPUB

Actual result:
 * 1) generated Uffizi page misses link to The Adoration of the Magi
 * 2) but The Adoration of the Magi is in the EPUB

Expected result: Safranek.jan (talk) 09:06, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) generated Uffizi page has link to The Adoration of the Magi

Proposal: include category pages in books
On category pages, there is button "Add this category to your book". It's perfect and works well. But there is no way how to add the category page itself to the book. It can be useful as table-of-content page for quick orientation in the book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safranek.jan (talk • contribs) 09:12, 19 September 2012 (UTC)