Wikibooks:Contact us

From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

This page contains useful information about the Wikibooks project While this is not a listing of rules or policies, it contains information about an important Wikibooks process, custom etc. This page should be helpful to our users; please let us know if it is not.

Welcome to Wikibooks! If you are new to Wikibooks please visit our welcome page for a quick introduction to the project.

Most general discussion takes place on-wiki in the reading rooms. See Wikibooks:Reading room for an overview of these.

If your question or comment is about a particular module, then use the discussion link that is displayed when you are viewing that module (it is by default in one of the tabs near the top-left of the page).

If you are the owner of content that is being used on Wikibooks without your permission, please read our copyrights policy for information about how to have the issue resolved.

Keep in mind that IRC conversations aren't archived. Consider discussing things that need consensus on-wiki so that others can read up on and understand the rationale for decisions made.

IRC

Real-time conversation takes place on several IRC channels at Freenode. This is often the fastest way to contact other contributors.

Connect to one of the Freenode servers, such as irc.freenode.net, with your IRC client and /join one or more of the channels listed below. If you don't already have one, consider registering a nickname. Opera users can simply click on the link which will then open the integrated IRC client. Firefox users can try ChatZilla, or Pidgin.

Learn more by reading the IRC chapter in our very own Internet Technologies wikibook.

• #wikibooks is the main channel. (say !admin@enbooks to quickly report vandalism in progress)
• #wikijunior for the Wikijunior project and children's literature in general for Wikibooks.
• #cvn-wb-en reports possible vandalisms in recent changes. http://cvn.dyndns.org/wiki/Channel_list has a list of vandalism channels. If there is no bot in the channel, ask for one at #countervandalism. CVN/Bots provides help on using counter-vandalism bots
• #en.wikibooks on irc.wikimedia.org tracks recent changes.

There are also four language-specific channels:

• #de.wikibooks for discussion in German.
• #wikibooks-it for discussion in Italian.
• #wikibooks-pl for discussion in Polish.
• #pt.wikilivros for discussion in Portuguese.

Mailing Lists

The Wikimedia Foundation maintains several mailing lists that can be used to discuss the Wikibooks projects and other issues.

Reporters and others who wish to get in touch with the project are encouraged to send an email to our mailing list. Many people subscribe to the mailing lists who do not check messages on Wikibooks regularly. You must be subscribed to the mailing list if you wish to send emails to it.

Wikibooks has two mailing lists for general users and administrators. Mailing lists are available in a number of formats: via a web archive, by email, or by NNTP using the mail-to-news gateway GMANE. Mailing list posts are indexed by search engines such as Google.

Offsite archives of Wikibooks's mailing lists can be found at GMANE and MARC [1].

• textbook-l (archive, via NNTP) - for discussing Wikibooks in general
• wikiquality-l (archive) - for discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives.
• foundation-l (archive, via NNTP) - for high-traffic discussions concerning the Wikimedia Foundation and all the projects.

Bug Reports

Should you wish to report a bug or suggest a new feature to the MediWiki software, please submit a bug report. Wikibooks uses a customized version of the Bugzilla software to track bug reports here. For more information see Bug reports.