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{{short description|Free resource library of books hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation and edited by volunteers}}
{{Primary source|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Wikibooks
| logo = [[File:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg|135px|Wikibooks logo from 2009 to the present]]
| screenshot = [[File:Wikibooks screenshot 2009 - visible.png|250px|border|Detail of the Wikibooks main page. All major Wikibooks projects are listed by number of articles.]]
| collapsible = yes
| caption = Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page
| url = {{URL|https://www.wikibooks.org/}}
| commercial = No
| type = Textbooks wiki
| language = [[Multilingual]] ({{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} active)<ref name="Sitematrix" />
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = [[b:User:Karl Wick|User Karl Wick]] and the Wikimedia Community
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2003|07|10}}
| current_status = Active
}}
[[File:Wikibooks growth.png|thumb|right|Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010]]

'''Wikibooks''' (previously called ''Wikimedia Free Textbook Project'' and ''Wikimedia-Textbooks'') is a [[wiki]]-based [[Wikimedia project]] hosted by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for the creation of [[free content]] [[digital textbook]]s and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional [[language]]s was started in July 2004.<ref name="WikiStats">{{cite web | url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | title=Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official) | publisher=Wikimedia | access-date=28 January 2018 }}</ref> As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites active for {{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} languages<ref name="Sitematrix">[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Sitematrix|API:Sitematrix]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab|Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab]]</ref> comprising a total of {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} articles and {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} recently active editors.<ref name="Siteinfo">[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Siteinfo|API:Siteinfo]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/data.tab|Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab]]</ref>

== History ==
The wikibooks.org domain was registered on {{start date|2003|07|19}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikibooks.org Whois Record|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org|publisher=DomainTools, LLC|access-date=22 January 2013}}</ref> It was launched to host and build free textbooks on subjects such as [[organic chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Two major sub-projects, Wikijunior and [[Wikiversity]], were created within Wikibooks before its official policy was later changed so that future incubator-type projects are started according to the Wikimedia Foundation's new project policy.

In August 2006, Wikiversity became an independent Wikimedia Foundation project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/14633/wikipedia-now-serving-k-12-and-over|title=Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over|date=2006-08-04|website=mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref>

Since 2008, Wikibooks has been included in [[BASE (search engine)|BASE]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.base-search.net/Record/a54c9de5aeca8c528f687d1e1d3827e4a5c3eb8638dc57a0557413f8c3206069/|title=Suchmaschine BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Wikibooks: Viquillibres : Portada|website=www.base-search.net|access-date=15 January 2018}}</ref>

In June 2016, [[Compete.com]] estimated that Wikibooks had 1,478,812 unique visitors.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ "Site Profile for wikibooks.org"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608021108/http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ |date=2010-06-08 }}, ''compete'', retrieved July 19, 2016</ref>

=== Wikijunior ===
Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children. The project consists of both a magazine and a website, and is currently being developed in English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and Bangla. It is funded by a grant from the [[Beck Foundation]].

== Book content ==
[[File:Development of "Mathe für Nicht-Freaks" from Sep 2009 to June 2016.webm|thumb|Visualization of the development in the German Wikibook project [[b:de:Mathe für Nicht-Freaks|Mathe für Nicht-Freaks]]]]
While some books are original, others began as text copied over from other sources of free content textbooks found on the Internet. All of the site's content is released under a [[Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike]] license (or a compatible license). This means that, as with its sister project, Wikipedia, contributions remain copyrighted to their creators, while the licensing ensures that it can be freely distributed and reused subject to certain conditions.

Wikibooks differs from [[Wikisource]] in that Wikisource collects exact copies and original translations of existing free content works, such as the original text of [[Shakespeare|Shakespearean plays]], while Wikibooks is dedicated either to original works, significantly altered versions of existing works, or annotations to original works.

== Multilingual statistics ==
As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites for {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikibooks}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikibooks}} are closed.<ref name="Sitematrix" /> The active sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} articles and the closed sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalclosed.wikibooks|N}} articles.<ref name="Siteinfo" /> There are {{NUMBEROF|users|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} are recently active.<ref name="Siteinfo" />

The top ten Wikibooks language projects by mainspace article count:<ref name="Siteinfo" />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!№!!Language!!Wiki!!Good!!Total!!Edits!!Admins!!Users!!Active users!!Files
{{for nowiki|
|<nowiki>
|-
| {{{i}}}
| {{Mw lang|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}}}
| [[:b:{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}:|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}]]
| {{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|pages|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|edits|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|admins|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|users|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|files|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}</nowiki>|count=10 }}
|}
For a complete list with totals, see Wikimedia Statistics.<ref name="Wikimedia Statistics">{{cite web |url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks#Statistics |title=Wikibooks Statistics |work=[[WP:Meta|Meta.Wikimedia.org]] |access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[WikiToLearn]]
* [[CK-12 Foundation]]
* [[Digital library]]
* [[European Library]]
* [[Free High School Science Texts]]
* [[Global Text]]
* [[ibiblio]]
* [[LibriVox]], an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks.
* [[Open Content Alliance]]
* [[Open textbook]]
* [[Project Gutenberg]]
* [[Universal library]]
* [[b:Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?|Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite web |year=2005 |title=All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books|author=Ben Crowell|url=http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/infrastructure.html|access-date=June 18, 2006}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.ednews.org/articles/an-interview-with-curtis-bonk-a-look-at-wikibooks-and-wikibookians.html |title=An Interview with Curtis Bonk: A Look at Wikibooks and Wikibookians |publisher=EducationNews.org |date=2009-07-14 |author=Michael F. Shaughnessy}}

== External links ==
* [[b:Main Page|English Wikibooks' Main Page]]
* [[b:Wikijunior|Wikijunior Main Page]]
* [https://www.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks' multilingual portal]
* [[metawiki:Wikibooks/Table|Wikibooks Language Editions: list of Wikibooks for various languages ordered by size.]]
* [[m:Wikibooks|Wikibooks page on Meta-Wiki]]
* [https://www.cnet.com/news/wikibooks-takes-on-textbook-industry/ Wikibooks takes on textbook industry]

{{Wikimedia Foundation}}
{{E-book digital distribution platforms}}
{{ebooks}}

[[Category:Advertising-free websites]]
[[Category:E-book sources]]
[[Category:E-book suppliers]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]]
[[Category:Multilingual websites]]
[[Category:Wikimedia projects]]

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−	~~\| author = [[b:User:Karl Wick\|User Karl Wick]] and the Wikimedia Community~~
−	~~\| launch_date = {{start date and age\|2003\|07\|10}}~~
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−	~~[[File:Wikibooks growth.png\|thumb\|right\|Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010]]~~
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−	'''Wikibooks''' (previously called ''Wikimedia Free Textbook Project'' and ''Wikimedia-Textbooks'') is a [[wiki]]-based [[Wikimedia project]] hosted by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for the creation of [[free content]] [[digital textbook]]s and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
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−	Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional [[language]]s was started in July 2004.<ref name="WikiStats">{{cite web \| url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm \| title=Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official) \| publisher=Wikimedia \| access-date=28 January 2018 }}</ref> As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites active for {{NUMBEROF\|active\|wikibooks}} languages<ref name="Sitematrix">[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Sitematrix\|API:Sitematrix]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab\|Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab]]</ref> comprising a total of {{NUMBEROF\|articles\|totalactive.wikibooks\|N}} articles and {{NUMBEROF\|activeusers\|totalactive.wikibooks\|N}} recently active editors.<ref name="Siteinfo">[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Siteinfo\|API:Siteinfo]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/data.tab\|Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab]]</ref>
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−	~~== History ==~~
−	The wikibooks.org domain was registered on {{start date\|2003\|07\|19}}.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Wikibooks.org Whois Record\|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org\|publisher=DomainTools, LLC\|access-date=22 January 2013}}</ref> It was launched to host and build free textbooks on subjects such as [[organic chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Two major sub-projects, Wikijunior and [[Wikiversity]], were created within Wikibooks before its official policy was later changed so that future incubator-type projects are started according to the Wikimedia Foundation's new project policy.
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−	In August 2006, Wikiversity became an independent Wikimedia Foundation project.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/14633/wikipedia-now-serving-k-12-and-over\|title=Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over\|date=2006-08-04\|website=mentalfloss.com\|language=en\|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref>
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−	Since 2008, Wikibooks has been included in [[BASE (search engine)\|BASE]].<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://www.base-search.net/Record/a54c9de5aeca8c528f687d1e1d3827e4a5c3eb8638dc57a0557413f8c3206069/\|title=Suchmaschine BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Wikibooks: Viquillibres : Portada\|website=www.base-search.net\|access-date=15 January 2018}}</ref>
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−	In June 2016, [[Compete.com]] estimated that Wikibooks had 1,478,812 unique visitors.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ "Site Profile for wikibooks.org"] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608021108/http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ \|date=2010-06-08 }}, ''compete'', retrieved July 19, 2016</ref>
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−	~~=== Wikijunior ===~~
−	Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children. The project consists of both a magazine and a website, and is currently being developed in English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and Bangla. It is funded by a grant from the [[Beck Foundation]].
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−	~~== Book content ==~~
−	~~[[File:Development of "Mathe für Nicht-Freaks" from Sep 2009 to June 2016.webm\|thumb\|Visualization of the development in the German Wikibook project [[b:de:Mathe für Nicht-Freaks\|Mathe für Nicht~~-~~Freaks]]]]~~
−	While some books are original, others began as text copied over from other sources of free content textbooks found on the Internet. All of the site's content is released under a [[Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike]] license (or a compatible license). This means that, as with its sister project, Wikipedia, contributions remain copyrighted to their creators, while the licensing ensures that it can be freely distributed and reused subject to certain conditions.
−
−	Wikibooks differs from [[Wikisource]] in that Wikisource collects exact copies and original translations of existing free content works, such as the original text of [[Shakespeare\|Shakespearean plays]], while Wikibooks is dedicated either to original works, significantly altered versions of existing works, or annotations to original works.
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−	~~== Multilingual statistics ==~~
−	As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites for {{NUMBEROF\|languages\|wikibooks}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF\|active\|wikibooks}} are active and {{NUMBEROF\|closed\|wikibooks}} are closed.<ref name="Sitematrix" /> The active sites have {{NUMBEROF\|articles\|totalactive.wikibooks\|N}} articles and the closed sites have {{NUMBEROF\|articles\|totalclosed.wikibooks\|N}} articles.<ref name="Siteinfo" /> There are {{NUMBEROF\|users\|totalactive.wikibooks\|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF\|activeusers\|totalactive.wikibooks\|N}} are recently active.<ref name="Siteinfo" />
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−	~~The top ten~~ Wikibooks ~~language projects by mainspace article count:<ref name="Siteinfo" />~~
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−	\|-
−	~~!№!!Language!!Wiki!!Good!!Total!!Edits!!Admins!!Users!!Active users!!Files~~
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−	~~\| {{NUMBEROF\|articles\|{{Wikipedia rank by size\|{{{i}}}\|wikibooks}}.wikibooks\|N}}~~
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−	~~\| {{NUMBEROF\|admins\|{{Wikipedia rank by size\|{{{i}}}\|wikibooks}}.wikibooks\|N}}~~
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−	~~\| {{NUMBEROF\|files\|{{Wikipedia rank by size\|{{{i}}}\|wikibooks}}.wikibooks\|N}}</nowiki>\|count=10 }}~~
−	\|}
−	For a complete list with totals, see Wikimedia Statistics.<ref name="Wikimedia Statistics">{{cite web \|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks#Statistics \|title=Wikibooks Statistics \|work=[[WP:Meta\|Meta.Wikimedia.org]] \|access-~~date=11 September 2020}}</ref~~>
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−	~~== See also ==~~
−	* [[WikiToLearn]]
−	* [[CK-12 Foundation]]
−	* [[Digital library]]
−	* [[European Library]]
−	* [[Free High School Science Texts]]
−	* [[Global Text]]
−	* [[ibiblio]]
−	* [[LibriVox]], an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks.
−	* [[Open Content Alliance]]
−	* [[Open textbook]]
−	* [[Project Gutenberg]]
−	* [[Universal library]]
−	* [[b:Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?\|Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?]]
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−	~~== References ==~~
−	~~{{Reflist}}~~
−
−	~~== Further reading ==~~
−	* {{cite web \|year=2005 \|title=All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books\|author=Ben Crowell\|url=http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/infrastructure.html\|access-date=June 18, 2006}}
−	* {{cite web \|url=http://www.ednews.org/articles/an-interview-with-curtis-bonk-a-look-at-wikibooks-and-wikibookians.html \|title=An Interview with Curtis Bonk: A Look at Wikibooks and Wikibookians \|publisher=EducationNews.org \|date=2009-07-14 \|author=Michael F. Shaughnessy}}
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−	~~== External links ==~~
−	* [[b:Main Page\|English Wikibooks' Main Page]]
−	* [[b:Wikijunior\|Wikijunior Main Page]]
−	* [https://www.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks' multilingual portal]
−	* [[metawiki:Wikibooks/Table\|Wikibooks Language Editions: list of Wikibooks for various languages ordered by size.]]
−	* [[m:Wikibooks\|Wikibooks page on Meta-Wiki]]
−	* [https://www.cnet.com/news/wikibooks-takes-on-textbook-industry/ Wikibooks takes on textbook industry]
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−	~~{{Wikimedia Foundation}}~~
−	~~{{E-book digital distribution platforms}}~~
−	~~{{ebooks}}~~
−
−	~~[[Category:Advertising-free websites]]~~
−	~~[[Category:E-book sources]]~~
−	~~[[Category:E-book suppliers]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Multilingual websites]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Wikimedia projects]]~~