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.wikibooks.org |
| Alexa rank | ▲ 3,610 (July 2013[update])[1] |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 10, 2004 |
| 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 closed and locked.
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.
Sources
- ↑ "Wikibooks.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
