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{{short description|Free resource library of books hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation and edited by volunteers}}
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'''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 textbook]]s and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
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 July 19, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikibooks.org Whois Record|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org|publisher=DomainTools, LLC|access-date=22 January 2013|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123190604/https://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Talk:Science Hypertextbook project|work=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|date=June 23, 2003|accessdate=October 1, 2022|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/153077}}</ref><ref>{{cite mailing list|title=a spot for WP textbook devel|first=Karl|last=Wick|mailing-list=wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|date=June 17, 2003|accessdate=October 1, 2022|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CYNWNQMHZTBDWXLJEGEARN3AAQAP2V4L/}}</ref> Two major sub-projects, Wikijunior 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.{{
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=mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28|archive-date=2019-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928193247/http://mentalfloss.com/article/14633/wikipedia-now-serving-k-12-and-over|url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== 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{{
== Book content ==
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== 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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