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How does wikibooks differ from wikipedia?
How does wikibooks differ from wikipedia? Does it allow for things like multiple books on roughly the same topic? Is there some way to make a draft book and have people look it over to ensure you aren't making bad books? 174.4.104.57 (discuss) 19:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello! Books are limited in scope, with clearly defined aims, and their chapters are interrelated and connected to each other. Wikibooks does allow for multiple books on the same topic, provided that they are sufficiently different from each other. For example, they may be aimed at different audiences, have slightly different goals, etc. I would recommend drafting a book in your personal sandbox, then transferring it to the main namespace. Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 12:27, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * It's one of the first questions many newcomers ask as I did several years ago. In my opinion Wikipedia and Wikibooks are so similar in many cases as you can import pages from Wikipedia to Wikibooks. As a general rule, Wikibooks has less interwikis between its different language versions. Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 07:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

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