Help:What is a module
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
- See also: Wikibooks:FAQ
A Wikibooks module is defined as a page that has textbook-like material on it.
A complete Wikibook is typically composed of many Wikibooks modules. With very few exceptions, all of the printed text on the paper of a printed version of a Wikibook comes from one or another Wikibooks module of that book.
See Special:Allpages for a list of all Wikibooks articles and Special:Statistics for statistics on Wikibooks and its growth.
A "module" does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:
- the Wikibooks and Wikibooks talk namespaces for material about meta subjects related to Wikibooks (example, Wikibooks:Staff lounge and its talk page, Wikibooks talk:Staff lounge);
- the Talk namespace for discussing what the content of pages should be (for example, Talk:Main Page);
- the Special and Special talk namespaces, whose pages are created by the software on demand (example Special:Statistics);
- the User and User talk namespaces for pages that are used by individual Wikipedia writers (example, User:Karl Wick);
- the Image and Image talk namespaces, which is used for describing and attributing images (example Image:Chimpanzee.jpg);
- the Template and Template talk namespaces, which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Wikibooks (example Template:Sisterprojects);
- the Category and Category talk namespaces, which is used to define groups of modules.
But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be modules; most notably:
The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is this: a module is any page that is in the module namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link.
See Wikibooks:Naming policy to learn how we title articles and Wikibooks:protected page for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-Wikibooks Administrators.
