Wikibooks
Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a collection of free books. It is one of many projects that are run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a wiki, which makes it possible for anyone to edit.
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| Available in | multilingual |
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| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 10, 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Some books are original, but others have started as text copied from other sources of free-content textbooks found on the Internet.
The CC-BY-SA license covers all the content that is in Wikibooks.
In February 2010, the Simple English Wikibooks was locked and closed. It can still be read.
Wikijunior
Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that has 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, and Spanish. It is funded by a grant from the Beck Foundation.
Pages in Wikijunior will have the Wikijunior: prefix in front of the page's name.
Wikibooks Media
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010
Visualization of the development in the German Wikibook project Mathe für Nicht-Freaks
How English Wikibooks is structured
Other websites
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