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Chinese (Mandarin)/Development History
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This history of the Chinese Wikibook highlights milestones along the book's development.
2026
July 19 All the lesson text (1-17) are finished!
June 28 Added Lesson 17.
2006
March 17 A PDF Version is created and the first audio samples are added to vocabulary
March 13 Print version created
2005
October Chinese is elected October's Book of the Month, the first language text to do so
June 12 First stroke order images linked from vocabulary
March First nomination for Book of the Month. One vote (or 37 minutes) shy of High school extensions' 5 votes. Chinese would also be the runner-up in August and September.
Translated versions of the Chinese Wikibook appear in Spanish (March 13), Italian (July 19) and Polish (August 20).
2004
December 29 First Table of Contents
December 22 Planning page added
December 19 Major rewrite of Lesson 1
2003
December 13 First edit by Yacht