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Thanks, Swift (talk) 16:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jimbotyson,

Thanks for your work on A Quick Introduction to Unix. As someone who knows Unix enough to dare write a book about it, I'm sure you are one to appreciate structure and organization. At Wikibooks we have a policy of organizing the chapters in a book hierarchically. However, your new book is not yet organized that way. Please take a look at Wikibooks:Naming policy to see what I mean. Basically, each chapter or page in your new book appears "in the root directory" so to speak, so they each look like a book in their own right. If you need help fixing this, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks again for your work here! --Jomegat (talk) 12:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jomegat,

I confess, I'm having more trouble than I anticipated organising this thing! Maybe you can help? I seem to be missing the point of the help files.

I have a training manual, written by me, that we use. I would like to add it to wikibooks (which will mean editing out some of our site specific content). I want to do this both to add to wikibooks but also because we can leverage the wikibook technology to make for easy content management of our Unix courseware! I wanted to have it organised as Book -> chaptpers -> sections. I *thought* that the way to do that would be to create each section as a page (the lowest level module so to speak); link pages sequentially for on-line use; use book creator to organise pages into chapters into a book. But I'm wrong aren't I? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Jim

Happy to pitch in. You do need to create each chapter as its own page, but the name of the page you create needs to have the book's title at the beginning, followed by a slash, followed by the chapter name. For sections, it should be [[book/chapter/section]]. It's just like a directory structure in Unix. So if bar is a chapter in foo, you'd create it as [[foo/bar]] instead of creating a page as [[bar]]. To fix what you've done so far, we'll need to move some pages, but that's not hard to do. It's just work! There are shorthand ways of referencing pages as well. If you're in the top level of the book (i.e., in [[foo]]), you can link to bar by putting [[/bar/]] instead of [[bar]]. The leading slash tells the software that this is a subpage of the current page. The trailing slash tells it to only display the name of the current page. You could also write that as [[/bar|bar]] (the pipe says, "I know it's named foo/bar, but I want you to display it as just bar). To create a link to a chapter baz from within chapter bar, you'd write [[../baz/]]. I would jump in and make some moves for you, but I'm not sure of your intended hierarchy. But the way to approach it is to do the move first, then edit the link in the referencing page. The move will leave a redirect behind (sort of an "ln -s" thing, but not quite). --Jomegat (talk) 14:20, 26 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ha. And all the while I'm writing to you to explain how to do it, Adrignola has been out there patching things up for you. You can learn by what he's been doing too (he's a very helpful person around here). --Jomegat (talk) 14:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi, please don't create test pages in the "main space". You can create test pages as sub pages of your user page. The one you created has been moved here: User:Jimbotyson/My sandbox page. Thanks QU ^TalkQu 21:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello Jimbotyson, I have noticed you are the creator of the following pages:

• Matlab Primer/Matlab Programming
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Variables
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Desktop
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Solving Equations
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Curve Fitting
• Matlab Primer/Matlab as Calculator
• Matlab Primer/Matlab More Data Structures
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Built-in Functions
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Matrices and vectors
• Matlab Primer/Matlab Scripts and Function Files

As Matlab Primer was already deleted, I am curious to know if you have abandoned the pages above. If you have, I will be recommending the deletion of the mentioned pages due to their lack of meaningful content. In the future, please try to only create pages with content, or at least a clear structure for future content (ie. headings and brief descriptions of planned content). Doing so will allow for others to develop the book further in the future. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 02:46, 27 January 2012 (UTC)Reply