Wikibooks:About
From Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a place for open content textbooks. This site is a wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any book module. Just click on the change this page link near the top of each Wikibooks module.
The project is still small, but we hope to grow like our sister project, Simple English Wikipedia, while keeping a high quality.
Simple English Wikibooks began on 25 July 2004, and there are 267 modules on the site now.
The content of Simple English Wikibooks is covered by the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License). Editors here keep the rights to their edits, while the copyleft license makes the the version here and things made from it always free to share and copy. See Wikibooks copyright for more information.
Note: To teach students correctly in some areas (especially medicine), some Wikibooks have content that some users think is bad or not acceptable. See the content disclaimer for more information.
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[change] More about Wikibooks
- Welcome - Basic information for new visitors and how to use the site
- What is Wikibooks? - what Wikibooks includes, and what it does not include
- History of Wikibooks - A brief guide to the origins of this project.
- Wikimedia Foundation, a Wikipedia article about the organization that controls Wikibooks.
- Frequently asked questions, common questions and answers.
- Policies, rules for editing on Wikibooks.
[change] Exploring Wikibooks
- New changes, see modules that people are working on.
- Show any page
- New modules
- Study help desk, request information about a topic.
- Good modules, see the best of Wikibooks.
[change] Contributing to Wikibooks
- How to edit a page, more on how to edit a page, how to start a page, how to start a new book.
- Why contribute to the open textbook project Motivation and good reasons to contribute
- Why not to contribute to the open textbook project
- Help pages
- Policies and guidelines for contributors
- Wikibooks maintenance - list of all cleanup and maintenance tasks
[change] Getting in touch
- Wikibooks:Contact us
- Staff lounge, a forum to ask questions not answered in the FAQs or help pages.
- Study help desk - place for newcomers questions
- IRC channels - the fastest way to contact other Wikibookians
- Wikibooks mailing lists
- Instant messaging Wikibookians
- Wikibookians, list of Wikibooks' contributors.
- MetaWiki, a site that works alongside the main Wikibooks project. Here you can post essays and discussions about topics related to Wikibooks.
- Bulletin board (updated rather infrequently)
[change] Wikibooks in the News
[change] Other Wikimedia projects
- Meta-wiki, a wiki devoted to planning various Wikimedia projects. (See Meta for background)
- Wikinews a, free-content news source
- Wikipedia, a multilanguage encyclopedia with supporting almanac-like information. (See Wikipedia for background)
- Wiktionary, a multilingual Wiki dictionary and thesaurus. (See Wiktionary for background)
- Wikiquote, a collection of quotations. (See Wikiquote for background)
- Wikisource, a collection of free source documents. (See Wikisource for background)
- See also:Wikibooks:Comparison of other Wiki projects for information on how to utilize Wikimedia's projects.
- Wikibooks:Mirrors and forks - list of pages that copy our content (not always legally)
[change] Other language versions
These are planned as comprehensive libraries. Note that the Wikipedia sister project grew in just a couple of years to encompass more than a dozen languages, with still more being added.
Since many other language versions are only just underway, you are very welcome to participate in their development. See the Wikibooks portal for a list of Wikibooks in other languages.
[change] Opinions and objections
- Replies to common objections, a collection of counter arguments for common objections to the Wikibooks and wiki concept.
- The power structure of Wikibooks
[change] Other links
- Wikibooks:Friends of Wikibooks, a list of websites who have linked to us.
