Improve the forum's standing within the wikibook

First: What is the wikibook? The wikibook is here. Explanations of what it is are here (dreamviews) and here and here if you still don't understand.

So I was reading that dreamviews thread on ld4all, and I thought: hey, the wikibook has links to ld4all threads, and to lucidity institute threads, but not to dreamviews threads!

While I personally don't wish to put in the effort to collect them, I suggest a few people here do.

First, register at wikibooks (please). You can put a name (real or online) to your edits, and I (and other people) can contact you through your talk page. It is extremely simple: username, password, password again. Not even your email or real name if you don't want to provide it.

Second, you can go into a page with yellow boxes (most notably the Induction Techniques page) and start editing. Scroll down to the section you want to edit and click on the edit link on the right. (alternatively click on the edit tab at the top of the page). Now click the "Show preview" button to see the source and the actual section side-by-side.

What does a yellow links box look like in the code? Here's the current VILD one.

Code:

<div width="100%" style="background-color: #ffe; border: solid 1px #fea; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;" valign="top"> Threads about VILD at [http://ld4all.com ld4all.com]: I can LD at will!!!! [http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4774 I] [http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4844 II] [http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5194 III] | [http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4789 VILD...Visually Incubated Lucid Dream]<br/> Topics about VILD at [http://lucidity.com The Lucidity Institute]: [http://www.novadreamer.com/discus/messages/41/2021.html The VILD Technique]<br/> There is an [[Lucid Dreaming: Appendices: VILD|appendix on VILD]]. </div>

What's happening here? The <div ...> and </div> make the yellow box.

Then, there's the standard starter "Threads/Topics/Conversations about {topic} at [{link} {site name}]: "

Then, there's a bunch of links. On ld4all, there are some "BIG" topics that are split up every now and then to make it all a little easier to read (or perhaps harder, some people would say). For these, there's the topic name followed by lkinks to each section. After that, there's a vertical bar between each topic.

All followed by "
" which puts a single line break (as opposed to the paragraph breaks used in the rest of the book) before the next forum.

I suggest you simply look in appropriate forums, back 3 pages at most, and collect links to topics. Then you can put these links into the boxes as ever-so-handy references I don't know how much the yellow link boxes are used but does it really matter? Make yourself known! :wink:

Any other comments about the wikibook could go here too.

Im happy to help but I am a little confused. Do you want us to EDIT and add DreamViews links to the WikiBooks or do you want us to COLLECT the current links they have and simply give them back to you. Sorry about my confusion.

Heh... add dreamviews ones of course.

Ok, I'll start working on it then!!

I added the basic dreamviews links to the places where they have them. Next I will add the individual links to individual sites in dreamviews.

Let me know how it looks.

I took off the VILD line (and most others) because apparently there aren't any threads about VILD on dreamviews. A "Threads about VILD at dreamviews: " thing looks stupid when there aren't any links.

Please do put them back after collecting one or more links!

Incidentally, statistics for pageviews from March to July are easily available (the wikibook having started in January). Check this.

You've done this before haven't you.

What, posted in dreamviews before about the wikibook? Yes. Posted about adding dreamviews links? No.

Well if people read the wikibook it should become pretty obvious...

But yeah; I like to take a crack at people. :P People, the whole wiki business is an important thing (I rely upon wikipedia alot for homework, jesus it is valuable). If we can stick some stuff in there and contribute a little, it would be great.