Help:About

From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone, including you, can edit right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks module. Contributors maintain the property rights to their contributions, while the GNU Free Documentation License makes sure that the submitted version and its derivative works will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. See Wikibooks:Copyrights for more information. Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003.

See Wikibooks:Collections Preface for an introduction to this project intended to be printed and distributed to readers, especially as part of a collection.

Note: In order to properly educate students in various disciplines (in particular the medical sciences), some Wikibooks have content that may be considered offensive, vulgar or profane by some readers. See the content disclaimer for more information.

Contents 1 More about Wikibooks 2 Exploring Wikibooks 3 Contributing to Wikibooks 4 Getting in touch 5 Other Wikimedia projects 6 See also

More about Wikibooks

• Welcome, newcomers - 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.
• Wikibooks, a Wikipedia article about Wikibooks and its history.
• Wikimedia Foundation, a Wikipedia article about the non-profit parent organization of Wikibooks.
• Frequently asked questions

Exploring Wikibooks

• Recent changes, see modules that are being worked on right now.
• Random page
• New modules
• Reading room, a place to ask for help or introduce yourself.
• Featured books, see the best of Wikibooks.

Contributing to Wikibooks

• How to start a new page or book
• How to edit a page
• Help:Why contribute?
• Help pages
• Policies and guidelines for contributors
• Wikibooks maintenance - list of all cleanup and maintenance tasks

Getting in touch

• Wikibooks:Contact us
• Reading room, a forum to ask questions not answered in the FAQs or help pages.
• IRC channels - the fastest way to contact other Wikibookians
• Wikibooks mailing lists
• 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 The place to look for news

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)
• Wikiversity, a collection of free learning tools

See also

• Wikibooks Portal for a list of Wikibooks in other languages.
• Wikibooks:Replies to common objections, a collection of counter arguments for common objections to the Wikibooks and wiki concept.
• Help:Comparison of other Wiki projects for information on how to utilize Wikimedia's projects.
• Wikibooks:Friends of Wikibooks - a list of websites who have linked to us.
• Wikibooks:Mirrors and forks - list of pages that copy our content (not always legally)
• Wikibooks:Wikibooks in the media - for list of news articles that have mentioned Wikibooks.