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Wikibooks

Read Wikibooks, Wikimedia's library of free, open textbooks, from a workflow.

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Steps a workflow can run in Wikibooks.

  • Search WikibooksSearch the full text of one Wikibooks edition and get back the books, chapters and recipes that match, each with the passage the words were found in and the book it belongs to. This is the way in: every other action takes a title, and this is where a title comes from.
  • Get a random bookPick books at random from the library: a book of the day for a newsletter, or something new to read. Choose whole books, or any page including single chapters. Pair it with Get a page summary to send a description along with it.
  • Get a page's textRead one book page or chapter as plain text, along with its list of sections, so a later step can summarise it, translate it or turn it into a quiz. Narrow it to one section to pull just the exercises or just one recipe step. A book's contents page comes back as its chapter list in reading order.
  • Get a page summaryWhat a book or chapter is about, in one paragraph, with its lead picture. This is the card view: enough to put a book in a digest, a Slack message or an email without reading the whole page first.
  • List a book's chaptersA book's table of contents: every chapter in reading order, with the part of the book it sits in and how finished it is (Wikibooks rates each chapter from 0% to 100% developed). Chapters the contents page lists but nobody has written yet are included and marked, and pages filed under the book that the contents page leaves out come last.
  • List the pages in a categoryEverything filed under one category, which is how Wikibooks groups books by subject and tracks their progress: every book in a subject, every recipe of a cuisine, or everything added since a date. The result also says how many the category holds altogether. Type the name with or without the 'Category:' prefix.
  • List the categories a page is inWhere one book or chapter is filed: the book's own category and the subject shelves it sits on. Read a book's categories, then list the pages in one of them to find the books next to it. Wikibooks also files books by how complete they are and whether they are featured, in hidden categories; choose every category to see those too.
  • Get a page's edit historyWho changed one book page or chapter, when, and what they said they were doing. Use it to tell whether a book is still being written, to credit its authors, or to check a chapter a workflow depends on for changes since the last run.
  • List recent changesWhat has been written or edited across a whole Wikibooks edition lately, newest first, with the book each change belongs to. Run it on a schedule to post the week's new chapters, or set the oldest moment to the last run to see only what is new. Wikibooks keeps about thirty days of changes.

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