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 September 2024, there are Wikibooks sites active for 77 languages[1] comprising a total of 382,111 articles and 1,252 recently active editors.[3]