Wikibooks Stacks

Wikibooks Stacks is the book sorting mechanism for Wikibooks. Here is a hierarchical arrangement of all the books on English Wikibooks (currently of them), managed by Wikibookian curators with some semi-automated help.

At the top level, our stacks are arranged into departments — humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and so on. All the sectional units of the hierarchy below that level are called shelves, on which the books are found. Most departments have a top-level shelf shown for general references, and other top-level shelves which are more specific. Shelves may also contain subsection shelves, for the further sorting of shelves.

It takes its name from the stacks of a library, which are the book storage areas, with row upon row of bookshelves tightly packed together.

Information pages

 * Browse Wikibooks Stacks:At the top of the hierarchy is our floor plan (so to speak) showing all the departments.


 * Detailed structure of Wikibooks Stacks:A description of the detailed structure of Wikibooks Stacks can be found here.


 * Curate Wikibooks Stacks:For the most part, the pages in these stacks should detect when they need some sort of maintenance by a human contributor, and provide tools to assist in the tasks likely to be relevant.


 * Adding books to Wikibooks Stacks:Book can be easily added to Wikibooks Stacks using these directions.


 * Read about the history of Wikibooks Stacks:This is the most recent form of a Wikibooks cataloging tradition that has been through several incarnations stretching back to the earliest years of the project.