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Vote for the book of the month of September 2005.

The voting for the Book of the month for September 2005 is open from 1 – 31 August, 2005, and will close on August 31, 2005, 00:00 UTC. The book of the month will be featured on the main page of Wikibooks.

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Nominated books

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Mandarin Chinese (8)

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(Automatically nominated with 4 votes in July.)

Votes:

  1. Klingoncowboy4 00:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Serge 10:29, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
  3. italiandude707 21:56, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
  4. Mijokijo 02:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Anonymousbob 14:47, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Life 01:36, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Everlong 03:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Atreyyu 10:09, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Personally, I think that books on different languages that are comprehensive and can really help a person learn a new language should be top priority. This allows readers and contributors to read and contribute even more to Wikipedia. If we could have a truly comprehensive source of knowledge in not only English, but Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, etc. then this would make wikipedia a legendary source of knowledge. Wikibooks like this one could open that possibility to thousands more people.
I am personally interested in learning a few languages, Chinese being one of them (it is the most commonly spoken language in the world, 1/5 of the world's population speaks it). I've looked at this wikibook, and it presents a model that other similar wikibooks should follow. This book gets my vote. --Mijokijo 02:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Programming:C -/- -/- (4)

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(Automatically nominated with 4 votes in July.)

Votes:

  1. Klingoncowboy4 00:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Dirtyliberal 07:15, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Nerdman 10:12, 1 August 2005(PST)
  4. GatesPlusPlus 13:27, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Mambo Open Source (2)

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(Automatically nominated with 3 votes in July.)

Votes:

  1. Klingoncowboy4 00:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Dirtyliberal 00:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Raising Chickens (3)

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Votes:

  1. Klingoncowboy4 00:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Triddle 16:48, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Cyberman 04:19, 13 August 2005 (UTC) Where are the wikibuttons?[reply]

Comments:

Making an Island (6)

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Votes:

  1. Klingoncowboy4 01:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Shdwninja8 00:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. CivilCasualty 19:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Cspurrier 23:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Darkflib 20:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Lawman

Comments:

Ada Programming / Programming:Ada (16)

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Ada Programming took the criticism about not confirming to the Wikibooks:Naming policy at heart and renamed the book to confirm to the standard. Templates and Categories are to follow. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may course in the time of change. Do continue to vote for us ;-).

Votes:

  1. ManuelGR 18:54, 1 August 2005 (UTC) This is the largest programming book according to the statistics. It is also very well structured and with a well defined style.[reply]
  2. Klingoncowboy4 20:26, 1 August 2005 (UTC) Well structures, well written, I could see myself using this book[reply]
  3. Krischik 06:20, 2 August 2005 (UTC) As far as I know the only Programming book with fully working, tried and tested example programmes (see: Mathematical calculations, Converting data and Strings for examples).[reply]
  4. MartinDowie 18:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC) An excellent source of information.[reply]
  5. Grek1 20:20, 2. Aug 2005
  6. FJLoma 18:07, 3 Aug 2005 Excellent and very up to date.
  7. veenker 19:45, 3 Aug 2005 Great resource, complete and well written
  8. Thopre 14:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Gentgeen 23:39, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  10. surueña 14:26, August 8, 2005 (UTC) A great book that also covers the last version of the language (and as far as I known there is no other book or on-line tutorial so updated)
  11. Aramael 18:50, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Preben Randhol 20:37, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Rob Horning 13:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Frodet 20:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Aerius 11:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Esoterica 14:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

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