User talk:Ggathen

Help me!
Please help me with... 1. How to find, reload, and edit a saved book I created? 2. Is there an easy way to regularly save the book as I create it (to avoid loss if my PC shuts down unexpectedly)? 3. How do I move pages into a different order? When I tried to move an item in the Contents view listing, the book disappeared.

Ggathen (talk) 17:41, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately the book creator is rather buggy and not well-supported. The book creator should add a box at the top of every article you look at that has "Add this page to your book" (or, if it's already added, "Remove this page from your book"), "Show book (X pages)" and "Suggest pages" options. When you choose "Show book" you end up at Special:Book where in turn you can "Save and share your book", saving it either in the "Book:" namespace or as a sub-page of your user page (that's the "technical" title of your book). You can use that feature to save your book, and like any other edit you save, you can find those saved edits in your contributions (there's a "Contributions" link at the very top of every Wikipedia page, right next to "Log out").
 * At Special:Book you'll also find a list of the pages you have added to the book; you can drag them around to change their order or sort them into chapters.
 * When you save a book, you'll find a message box on that book page that will have, among others, an "Edit this book:" option (or two, to be precise - via the book creator or as plain wiki code). You can use that option to continue to edit a previously saved book.
 * I can't tell why your book vanished when you tried to move an item. It worked for me. As I said, the book creator is rather buggy and ill-maintained, so there unfortunately is no guarantee that it will work, and even less of a guarantee that the final result will be pretty. Huon (talk) 18:30, 26 June 2017 (UTC)