The english Wikipedia is having usability and maintenance problems (see the URL) due to the Collection/Books Extension. As such, tomorrow, we will be hiding the Books sidebar with CSS, until a more satisfying solution can be implemented.
Our idea is the following:
1: The books/collections sidebar becomes hidden (display:none) by default
2: We will add a link to the Special page of Collections to our sidebar toolbox. (Create article collections ???)
3: A user can set a preference option, or visit Special:Book (and create a collection) to activate the Collections/Book sidebar functionality.
We think it is important that we present our readers with as little confusing functionality as possible.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_47#Disabling_.22create_a_book.22