On 24 May 2021, the Book namespace was formally deprecated.
On 18 June 2021, consensus was reached to delete the book namespace and all pages within it, although individual books will be restored upon request.
On 13 July 2021, the Book namespace was uninstalled from the English Wikipedia.
All books were moved to subpages of Wikipedia:Books/archive at the end of June where they remained for a month to allow users to keep books in userspace and allow for refunds after namespace deletion.
On 3 August 2021, all books were deleted.
For details of how to restore a book after deletion, see: Wikipedia:Books/archive
You can create and edit a Wikipedia book design using the Book Creator and upload it to an external rendering service:
MediaWiki2LaTeX provides a softcopy conversion service to pdf and other formats. It remains under active support and may be used online or installed locally.
This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.
Welcome to WikiProject Wikipedia-Books. This is a collaboration dedicated to improving Wikipedia’s coverage and documentation of Wikipedia-Books (from now on, simply 'books'); as well as to improve and maintain the organization of book, books-related categories, and books-related templates; and help people on everything related to books (writing advice, template advice, bugs in the software, and so on). If you would like to help, please join the project, check out the talk page once in a while (or watch it) and see the to-do list below. Other WikiProjects can help by adding the book-class to their Project's banner (see the how-to guide).
Scope and goals
This WikiProject aims to help users write Wikipedia-Books, and guide the use of the Wikipedia-Books tools, the Wikipedia:Books page and subpages.
The core of the project is all the pages in the Book namespace (i.e. pages that start with Book:...), and any category or template that deal with these pages. Also concerned are the pages related to the book tool.
In the long run we hope to have books that are good enough to be traditionally published. That means they would get an ISBN, be available in stores, both online and offline, etc...
If you're interested in helping with this goal, please also visit the Publishing Wikipedia Books subproject.
Headbomb (talk·contribs) - I'll coordinate the efforts of this project as best I can. Basically I'll make sure things run smoothly and that resources and tools are readily available and up to date. I'll also act as a link between the devs and the community. 18:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
IShadowed (talk·contribs) - Willing to participate as much as possible without conflict with scheduling. 21:40, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Steven Walling (talk·contribs) - Have tinkered with the books tool some and I'm definitely interested in helping out as I can. 22:13, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Pjoef (talk·contribs) ~ I'm using this tool since 2009, I created and updated many books, and I am "intrigued" (more correctly interested) to see where it will go. I'm very pleased to be here... hope to be of some help in the future, of course. 00:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Dylan620 (talk·contribs) - Mostly to create books on meteorology (i.e. hurricanes and tornadoes) and on rock music (famous rock bands I like). 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Dank (talk·contribs) - interested in copyediting and PediaPress. 19:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Rock drum (talk·contribs) - I really like Wikipedia books, I'd be happy to help out. 16:57, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Tuxlie (talk·contribs) (I am interested in working on Music Books) 13:54, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Amandajm (talk·contribs) (I want to add some "major work" pages to the Leonardo da Vinci book and remove the less relevant. My expertise is principally art and architecture, but my interests are wide ranging. ) 00:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Merbst (talk·contribs) (Interested in creating a reference of all known Information Theoretic Codes & Coding Theory Concepts 02:23, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Esb5415 (talk·contribs) Sports, Space, and United States government/US state government. Contact with questions. Esb5415 23:38, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
steelpillow (talk·contribs). No special interest, though I am keen on good quality processing/formatting and I have put together one book on aircraft. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 15:45, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Book can be used to create a basic main article and supporting articles book. The template also creates links to start subpages for a table of contents and introduction plus a books category based on the main article.