Wikibooks:Welcome

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.

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project for collaboratively writing educational content on various subjects. Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior which is aimed at children and the Cookbook which is our collection of recipes and culinary topics.

All content on Wikibooks is released under the both Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation License that ensures that books will remain freely distributable forever. See also Wikibooks:Copyrights.

Feel free to browse around our growing number of steadily improving books and be sure to check out our collection of featured books.

Wikibooks is very much a community effort, so feel free to improve the existing content or add new books or modules, and join project related discussions in the Wikibooks reading rooms.

See also:

• Help:Wikibooks for Wikimedians
• Wikibooks:Guidelines for class projects

[edit] Find a Book

There are many ways to find a book at Wikibooks. Try searching for it or browse through our catalog systems:

[edit] Quick-Start Guides

To quickly get up to speed on using Wikibooks, you should head over to the Help:Contents page.

Seeing how we're a community to foster the authoring of books, Wikibookians have written books that may help you in participating in the project:

• Using Wikibooks
• Editing Wikitext

[edit] General Information, Guides and Help

• Help:FAQ: Frequently asked questions Wikibooks.
• Wikibooks:Policies and guidelines
• Glossary - a glossary of common terms used on Wikibooks.