Help:Introduction

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[edit] What is Wikibooks?

Wikibooks is a wiki community of volunteers devoted to the creation and development of free educational textbooks. Wikibooks produces textbooks under the GNU Free Documentation License as a free alternative to expensive proprietary textbooks, so that anyone can copy, modify, reuse and redistribute our textbooks.

You can search for interesting books, browse by subject, look through the alphabetical list of books, or try the age-themed Wikijunior, Wikistudy and Wikiprofessional collections. Some textbooks have PDF editions; those are easier to download or print, with the disadvantage that the wiki pages often contain updates added after the last PDF version.

[edit] How can I help?

Anyone with a web browser can help develop Wikibooks. You can create an account or your welcome to edit anonymously. We encourage you to be bold! Find something that can be improved and fix it. If you cannot find something you're interested in take a look at our Community Portal, start a new book or introduce yourself and ask questions. Please do not be afraid to contribute – other editors who edit the page after you can correct mistakes. If you don't feel comfortable helping to develop the English edition of Wikibooks, maybe you can help develop other language editions of Wikibooks.

[edit] See also

For our community guidebook, that answers many common questions about Wikibooks and the Wikibooks book writing process, see Using Wikibooks.