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Type of site | Textbooks wiki |
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| Available in | Multilingual (77 active)[1] |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | User Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community |
| URL | wikibooks |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 10, 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
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 November 2024, there are Wikibooks sites active for 77 languages[1] comprising a total of 383,860 articles and 1,752 recently active editors.[3]
- ^ a b Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved November 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
- ^ "Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved November 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab