Wikibooks

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(විකිපොත්:Policies and guidelines වෙතින් යළි-යොමු කරන ලදි)
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This module serves as a guide to the policies and guidelines that are generally accepted and considered important — even essential — by the project's founders and community. These help us to work towards our goal, Developing free, open content textbooks, manuals and other texts. It is important to note that at least some of these policies are still evolving as Wikibooks grows and develops.

Definition of terms

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The definitions of "must" and "should" are adapted from IETF RFC 2119, and define how these words are used in the policies and guidelines of wikibooks.
Must
This word, or the terms "required" or "shall", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the policy or guideline.
Should
This word, or the adjective "recommended", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular guideline, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
Official
Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it is currently in effect, and enforced by other contributors. A policy is a set of rules that must be followed. A guideline is a set of rules that should be followed.
Obsolete
Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it has been superseded by a new guideline or policy. The new version should be used, and the old version is only kept for historical reasons.
Rejected
Referring to a policy or guideline proposal, this means that it has been rejected by the community for a variety of different reasons. It, along with the proposal discussion, is kept to remind people of the reasons for the rejection and to prevent it from being reproposed for reasons rejected in previous discussion.
Proposed
Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it has been suggested by a user and is still undergoing discussion as to whether it should be made official or rejected. Proposed policies and guidelines may either become official or rejected, depending on the eventual outcome of the discussion.

Procedures

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Formulating policies and guidelines

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Wikibooks policies and guidelines are formulated for the most part by habit and consensus. This takes place in discussions on talk pages, the Reading Room and the Textbook-l email list. Once a ground for consensus exists on a topic that Wikibooks would benefit to have as an official guideline or policy, a document is created and discussed in specifics.

To propose a new policy or guideline document, add a new entry to the Proposals section below. The page should be in the Wikibooks namespace. Create the new page, add the {{proposed}} template and write up the proposal.

So long as the policy is proposed, other users and members may change the text of the proposal to reflect the state of the discussion and compromises about the proposal. After proposed policy has been reviewed and discussed by other users and work on it is considered finished, it may be accepted by community consensus. For specifics about what consensus means, and how it is achieved, see the decision making guidelines

Enforcing policies

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You are a Wikibooks editor. Wikibooks lacks an editor-in-chief or a central, top-down mechanism whereby the day-to-day progress on this instructional resource is monitored and approved. Instead, active participants monitor recent changes and make copyedits and corrections to the content and format problems they see. So the participants are both writers and editors.

Policies

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All Wikimedia projects share a set of core founding principles, see Wikimedia Founding Principles.

Official Wikibooks policies are identified with the {{policy}} template at the top of the page. The template includes the page in Category:Wikibooks policies. See the category for current official policies as the following list may be out of date.

Don't infringe on copyrights

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Wikibooks is a collection of free content books licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Submitting work without the copyright holder's permission threatens our objective to build a truly free resource that anyone can redistribute, and could lead to legal liability for the project. See Wikibooks copyrights for more information.

Wikibooks is an instructional resource

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The site should primarily be used for developing textbooks, textbook-like books, and supporting book-based instructional materials (i.e. annotated texts such as on the Works of Shakespeare with aids for reading and study, for example, or extensive book summaries). In particular, discussions on talk pages should be directed at improving modules. For more information on Wikibooks as an instructional resource, see:

Wikibooks content

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Respect other contributors

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Wikibooks contributors come from many different countries and cultures, and have widely different views. By treating others with respect we are able to cooperate effectively in building an instructional resource. For some guidelines, see Etiquette.

Administration

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Wikibooks is multilingual

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This is the English Wikibooks, but Wikibooks exists in many languages! For a complete list of active Wikibooks languages see the Wikibooks portal. Typing "wikibooks.org" into your web browser (with no preceding language code like "en." or "fr.") brings you to that portal.

Wikibooks encourage its projects in various language to collaborate and to learn from each other. The easiest way to facilitate this is to include language links between parallel Wikibooks projects in different languages (as used in Wikipedia articles).

Example: The German Wikibooks has a Wikibook for people who want to learn the Japanese language. The title page of this instructional text has links in the sidebar to books for people who speak other languages and want to learn Japanese, including: English, French, and even a "learn Japanese in Japanese" text at the Japanese Wikibooks.

Including language links makes comparisons, collaboration, and learning useful new techniques much easier and more common.

Guidelines

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Official Wikibooks guidelines are identified with the {{guideline}} template at the top of the page. This will include the page in Category:Wikibooks guidelines. See the category for current official policies as the following list may be out of date.

Some of the guidelines listed below aren't official (yet), but have a fairly general acceptance.

General guidelines

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Editing guidelines

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  • Sign your posts on talk pages.
  • Fill in an edit summary.
  • Preview your edits before you save.
  • Avoid using bots.

Content guidelines

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  • Explain jargon.
  • Integrate changes, instead of just appending your thoughts at the end of a module
  • Define and describe
  • Cite your sources, and use proper references. See Help:References.
  • Avoid statements that will date quickly
  • Check your facts
  • Avoid blanket statements
  • Avoid self-references

Style guidelines

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  • Wikibooks:Manual of Style (currently a proposal, but still useful).
  • Be careful in the use of colour.
  • Avoid creating deeply nested sections.
  • Aim for brilliant prose, accessible structure, wide-ranging and in-depth coverage, and verifiable contents so that your book may one day join the ranks of featured books.

Proposals

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මේවාත් බලන්න: Wikibooks:Policies and guidelines/Proposed reform
If you are considering proposing a policy, you will want to review the #Rejected policies to see why a policy might be unacceptable to the Wikibooks community.

Proposed Wikibooks policies and guidelines are identified with the {{draft}} template at the top of the page.

These will include the page in Category:Wikibooks draft policies and guidelines. See the categories for current proposals.

Obsolete

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Obsolete Wikibooks policies and guidelines are identified with the template {{obsolete|<link to superseding policy>}} at the top of the page.

This will include the page in Category:Wikibooks obsolete policies and guidelines. See the categories for current proposals as the following list may be out of date.

Rejected

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Rejected Wikibooks policies and guidelines are identified with the {{rejected}} template at the top of the page. This will include the page in Category:Wikibooks rejected policies and guidelines. See the category for a full list of rejections, those of particular interest are:

"https://si.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=විකිපොත්:ප්‍රතිපත්ති_සහ_මාර්ගෝපදේශන&oldid=15168" වෙතින් සම්ප්‍රවේශනය කෙරිණි