Wikibooks:Multilingual coordination
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
The textbook-l mailing list can be used to coordinate Wikibooks across different languages.
The Wikibooks community is committed to including any and all languages for which there are Wikibookians willing to do the work. We are aware that many of the world's 6,500 languages are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible.
Each language Wikibooks currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are called interlanguage links or (colloquially and a bit ambiguously) "interwiki".
The URL of the wikibooks for a given language is xx.wikibooks.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as per ISO 639. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often write xx: to mean the xx-language wikibooks, as in I'm a regular on fr:.)
[edit] Textbook projects
See Meta:List of Wikibooks for a full list of projects and statistics.
Wiki textbook projects that are at least somewhat active have been started in various languages:
- English (en) - started on July 10, 2003
- Greek (el) - started on July 29, 2004
- Vietnamese – started 21 July 2004
[edit] Ways to contact
Many Wikibooks in foreign languages have their embassies - places where people from other projects can leave a message. Complete list can be found at Meta:Embassy.
