Wikibooks
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Type of site | Textbooks wiki |
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| Available in | Multilingual (0 active)[1] |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | User Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community |
| Website | 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 April 2024, there are Wikibooks sites active for 0 languages[1] comprising a total of 0 articles and 0 recently active editors.[3]
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] 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.[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.[citation needed]
Book content[edit]
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-Share Alike 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.
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 April 2024, there are Wikibooks sites for 0 languages of which 0 are active and 0 are closed.[1] The active sites have 0 articles and the closed sites have 0 articles.[3] There are 0 registered users of which 0 are recently active.[3]
The top ten Wikibooks language projects by mainspace article count:[3]
| No. | Language | Wiki | Good | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Active users | Files |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Script error: No such module "Mw lang". | [[:b:Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.:|Script error: The function "rank" does not exist.]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For a complete list with totals, see Wikimedia Statistics.[10]
See also[edit]
- WikiToLearn
- CK-12 Foundation
- Digital library
- European Library
- Free High School Science Texts
- Global Text
- ibiblio
- LibriVox, an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks.
- Open Content Alliance
- Open textbook
- Project Gutenberg
- Universal library
- Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks?
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved April 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved April 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab
- ↑ "Wikibooks.org Whois Record". DomainTools, LLC. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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". wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org (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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wikibooks: Viquillibres: Portada. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2018. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "Site Profile for wikibooks.org". compete. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved July 19, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Wikibooks Statistics". Meta.Wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020. Unknown parameter
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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. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
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- Wikibooks Language Editions: list of Wikibooks for various languages ordered by size.
- Wikibooks page on Meta-Wiki
- Wikibooks takes on textbook industry
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