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Type of site
Textbooks wiki
Available inMultilingual (Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". active)[1]
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byUser Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community
URLwikibooks.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 10, 2003; 23 years ago (2003-07-10)
Current statusActive

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Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010

Wikibooks 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 August 2026, there are Wikibooks sites active for Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". languages[1] comprising a total of Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". articles and Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". recently active editors.[3] At primary stages it was called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks.

History

The wikibooks.org domain was registered on July 19, 2003.[4] It was launched to host and build free textbooks on subjects such as organic chemistry and physics, in response to a request by Wikipedia contributor Karl Wick.[5][6] Three major sub-projects, Wikijunior, Cookbook 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.[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed]

In August 2006, Wikiversity became an independent Wikimedia Foundation project.[7]

Since 2008, Wikibooks has been included in BASE.[8]

In June 2016, Compete.com estimated that Wikibooks had 1,478,812 unique visitors.[9]

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.[citation needed]

Book content

File:Development of "Mathe für Nicht-Freaks" from Sep 2009 to June 2016.webm 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-ShareAlike 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.

How English Wikibooks is structured

Wikibooks differs from Wikisource in that Wikisource collects exact copies and original translations of existing free content works, such as the original text of 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 August 2026, there are Wikibooks sites for Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". languages of which Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". are active and Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". are closed.[1] The active sites have Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". articles and the closed sites have Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". articles.[3] There are Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". registered users of which Script error: No such module "NUMBEROF". are recently active.[3]

All of the Wikibooks language projects over 5,000 books by mainspace article count:[3]

  1. English: 98,464 books
  2. Hungarian: 45,778 books
  3. German: 33,728 books
  4. French: 21,296 books
  5. Italian: 19,737 books
  6. Japanese: 17,246 books
  7. Portuguese: 13,972 books
  8. Spanish: 9,722 books
  9. Dutch: 9,138 books
  10. Vietnamese: 8,187 books
  11. Polish: 6,967 books
  12. Indonesian: 5,533 books
  13. Finnish: 5,051 books

Reception

Meng-Fen et al suggested that while there isn't much social connection between contributors of Wikibooks, the contributors had no major issues coordinating to write books.[10]

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b c Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved August 2026 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved August 2026 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikibooks.org Whois Record". DomainTools, LLC. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Talk:Science Hypertextbook project". Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. June 23, 2003. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wick, Karl (June 17, 2003). "a spot for WP textbook devel". wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org (Mailing list). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over". Mental Floss. 2006-08-04. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikibooks: Viquillibres: Portada". Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Site Profile for wikibooks.org". compete. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lin, Meng-Fen Grace; Sajjapanroj, Suthiporn; Bonk, Curtis J. (October 2011). "Wikibooks and Wikibookians: Loosely Coupled Community or a Choice for Future Textbooks?". IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 4 (4): 327–339. Bibcode:2011ITLT....4..327L. doi:10.1109/TLT.2011.12.

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