Wikipedia:Books

This page has been closed down by community consensus, and is retained only for historical reference. If you wish to restart discussion on the status of this page, seek community input at a forum such as the village pump. It was last substantively updated in May 2021.

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

A Wikipedia Book (or a Wikipedia Reading list) is a book formed from an organized collection of Wikipedia articles. Their list forms (generally created using the Book Creator tool) are often nowadays hosted in the User namespace in the form of a list of Wikipedia article tiles, some lists may also include for reading only specific sections of the article (generally included as an anchor link). There are third party services for rendering electronically in PDF format, or ordering as a printed book. The book is compiled afresh each time it is retrieved by the service, so that a new upload will always reflect the latest versions of the articles. There are currently many Wikipedia Books that are available on book sellers such as Amazon.com.