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[[File:Wikibooks growth.png|thumb|right|Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010]]
'''Wikibooks'''
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 | archive-date=14 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414141656/https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | url-status=live }}</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:
== History ==
The wikibooks.org ___domain was registered on
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=
Since 2008, Wikibooks has been included in [[BASE (search engine)|BASE]].<ref>{{cite
In June 2016, [[Compete.com]] estimated that Wikibooks had 1,478,812 unique visitors.<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.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
== 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-
[[File:Wikibooks structure.svg|thumb|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 [[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" />
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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 |archive-date=13 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913025953/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks#Statistics |url-status=live }}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Wikibooks and Wikibookians: Loosely Coupled Community or a Choice for Future Textbooks? |journal=IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies| date=October 2011 | volume=4 | issue=4 | pages=327–339 | doi=10.1109/TLT.2011.12 | last1=Lin | first1=Meng-Fen Grace | last2=Sajjapanroj | first2=Suthiporn | last3=Bonk | first3=Curtis J. |bibcode=2011ITLT....4..327L }}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[WikiToLearn]]▼
* [[CK-12 Foundation]]
* [[Digital library]]
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* [[Global Text]]
* [[ibiblio]]
* [[LibreTexts]]
* [[LibriVox]], an online digital library of free public ___domain audiobooks.
* [[Open Content Alliance]]
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* [[Project Gutenberg]]
* [[Universal library]]
▲* [[WikiToLearn]]
* [[b:Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?|Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?]]▼
== References ==
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{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website}}
* [[Wikipedia:List of Wikibooks's]]
* [[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]
* [[v:Wikibooks|Wikibooks]] (Wikiversity)
{{Wikimedia Foundation}}
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[[Category:Ebook sources]]
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