Wikibooks - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 History Toggle History subsection 1.1 Wikijunior 2 Book content 3 Multilingual statistics 4 Reception 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Toggle the table of contents Wikibooks 105 languages Afrikaans Alemannisch Ænglisc العربية الدارجة অসমীয়া Azərbaycanca Boarisch Bikol Central Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Беларуская Betawi Български বাংলা Català 閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ کوردی Čeština Чӑвашла Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Zazaki Ελληνικά Esperanto Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Français Galego Hausa 客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî עברית हिन्दी Hrvatski Magyar Հայերեն Bahasa Indonesia Igbo Iñupiatun Íslenska Italiano 日本語 Jawa ქართული Qaraqalpaqsha Gĩkũyũ ಕನ್ನಡ 한국어 Kurdî Latina Limburgs Lietuvių Latviešu Madhurâ Македонски മലയാളം मराठी Bahasa Melayu Malti नेपाली Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Norsk bokmål Nupe Occitan ଓଡ଼ିଆ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Português Română Русский Scots Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски සිංහල Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Shqip Српски / srpski Svenska Kiswahili தமிழ் ᥖᥭᥰ ᥖᥬᥲ ᥑᥨᥒᥰ తెలుగు Тоҷикӣ ไทย Tagalog Türkçe Татарча / tatarça Українська اردو Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Vèneto Tiếng Việt Winaray 吴语 ייִדיש Vahcuengh 文言 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gí 粵語 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Meta-Wiki Wikibooks Wikinews Wikiversity Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikimedia project for free content textbooks This article has multiple issues. 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Find sources: "Wikibooks" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) "},"launch_date":{"wt":"{{start date and age|2003|07|10}}"},"logo":{"wt":"[[file:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg|135px|alt=Wikibooks logo with text: WIKIBOOKS Open books for an open world|Wikibooks logo from 2009 to the present]]"},"name":{"wt":"Wikibooks"},"owner":{"wt":"[[Wikimedia Foundation]]"},"registration":{"wt":"Optional"},"screenshot":{"wt":"Wikibooks 2024.png"},"type":{"wt":"Textbooks wiki"},"url":{"wt":"{{URL|https://wikibooks.org}}"}},"i":0}}]}'>Wikibooks Screenshot Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page Type of site Textbooks wiki Available in Multilingual (77 active)[1] Owner Wikimedia Foundation Created by Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community URL wikibooks.org Commercial No Registration Optional Launched July 10, 2003; 23 years ago (2003-07-10) Current status Active 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 77 languages[1] comprising a total of 363,249 articles and 1,460 recently active editors.[3] At primary stages it was called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks. History [edit] 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.[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 [edit] 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.[10] Book content [edit] Visualization of the development in the German Wikibook project 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-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 [edit] As of August 2026, there are Wikibooks sites for 122 languages of which 77 are active and 45 are closed.[1] The active sites have 363,249 articles and the closed sites have 671 articles.[3] There are 4,931,776 registered users of which 1,460 are recently active.[3] All of the Wikibooks language projects over 5,000 books by mainspace article count:[3] English: 98,464 books Hungarian: 45,778 books German: 33,728 books French: 21,296 books Italian: 19,737 books Japanese: 17,246 books Portuguese: 13,972 books Spanish: 9,722 books Dutch: 9,138 books Vietnamese: 8,187 books Polish: 6,967 books Indonesian: 5,533 books Finnish: 5,051 books Reception [edit] 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.[11] Ravid et al found that participation in book projects followed a long tail distribution, where a small number of editors made many of the edits, but most edits were produced by low-edit-count editors.[12] See also [edit] CK-12 Foundation Digital library European Library Free High School Science Texts Global Text ibiblio LibreTexts LibriVox, an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks. Open Content Alliance Open textbook Project Gutenberg Universal library WikiToLearn References [edit] 1 2 3 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved August 2026 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab ↑ "Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2018. 1 2 3 4 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved August 2026 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab ↑ "Wikibooks.org Whois Record". DomainTools, LLC. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2013. ↑ "Talk:Science Hypertextbook project". Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. June 23, 2003. Retrieved October 1, 2022. ↑ Wick, Karl (June 17, 2003). "a spot for WP textbook devel". [email protected] (Mailing list). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved October 1, 2022. ↑ "Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over". Mental Floss. 2006-08-04. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28. ↑ "Wikibooks: Viquillibres: Portada". Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2018. ↑ "Site Profile for wikibooks.org". compete.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved July 19, 2016. ↑ "Wikijunior - Meta-Wiki". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2026-06-04. ↑ 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. ↑ Ravid, Gilad; Kalman, Yoram M.; Rafaeli, Sheizaf (2008). "Wikibooks in higher education: Empowerment through online distributed collaboration". Computers in Human Behavior. 24 (5): 1913–1928. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.010. Further reading [edit] Ben Crowell (2005). "All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books". Retrieved June 18, 2006. Michael F. Shaughnessy (2009-07-14). "An Interview with Curtis Bonk: A Look at Wikibooks and Wikibookians". EducationNews.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2009-08-02. External links [edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikibooks. Official website Wikipedia:List of Wikibooks's Wikibooks Language Editions: list of Wikibooks for various languages ordered by size. Wikibooks page on Meta-Wiki Wikibooks takes on textbook industry What is Wikibooks? 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