I just enabled the book module and it's something that I could have used a long time ago. The reason I never enabled it before was because 'book' and the description made it literally sound like a book. It's more of a module that allows multipage nodes organized in a hierarchy. So a better name would be useful. Something like "Organized Page" would be a whole lot more descriptive. I would also drop the colloboration aspect from the description.

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tomski777’s picture

tomski777 commented

I wholeheartedly agree with you there... I've been very confused with the naming of this & other node types which don't help explain the functionality.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented
Title: Rename book module » Improve book module description
Project: Drupal core » Documentation
Component: book.module » User Guide
Category: bug » task

Changing this to be a documentation issue. Please help re-write the book description to make it better.

The word "collaboration" is in there because it is the only module with the "maintain" permission -- this allows any user to edit any book page, much like a wiki. With the addition of the freelinking module, it can in fact function almost identically to a wiki.

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sepeck commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)