Wikibooks

Wikibooks
Wikibooks logo from 2009 to the present
Screenshot
Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page
Type of site
Textbooks wiki
Available inMultilingual (77 active)[1]
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byUser Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community
URLwikibooks.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 10, 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current statusActive
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 textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.[2] As of December 2024, there are Wikibooks sites active for 77 languages[1] comprising a total of 384,948 articles and 1,429 recently active editors.[3]

  1. ^ a b Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved December 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
  2. ^ "Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ^ Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved December 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

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