Wikibooks

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Wikibooks, previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, is a project of Wikimedia Foundation, initiated on July 10, 2003. Wikibooks is the home for Wikijunior.

The project is a collection of free textbooks and manuals. You can edit any book module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikibooks module.

The project was opened in response to a request by Karl Wick for a place to start building open content textbooks such as organic chemistry and physics in order to bring education to humanity and reduce the costs and other limitations to top-quality learning materials. It was started on July 10, 2003 and has been growing steadily since. As a result of the continuous growth, Wikibooks was split into several language-specific subdomains on July 21, 2004.

All of the site's content is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Some of the first books were completely original and others began as text copied over from other sources of textbooks found on the Internet. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the copyleft licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. See copyrights for more information.

The site is working towards completion of several complete textbooks, which will eventually be followed by mainstream adoption and use of texts developed and housed there. Printable PDF versions can now be generated on-the-fly, and PediaPress provides print-on-demand services. The Wikimedia Foundation's press release has more details.

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Media

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Interlanguage cooperation

The embassy page provides a list of Wikibooks embassies - best way to contact other Wikibooks.

List of Wikibooks

External Source, dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob

External Source, generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted in this page

Note: This list includes closed wikis. The following Wikibooks projects are closed: aa, ak, als, as, ast, ay, ba, bi, bm, bo, ch, co, ga, gn, got, gu, kn, ks, lb, ln, lv, mi, mn, my, na, nah, nds, ps, qu, rm, se, simple, su, sw, tk, ug, uz, vo, wa, xh, yo, za, zh-min-nan, zu (44 total). This list also includes locked wikis, such as ang and ie.

These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.

№	Language	Wiki	Book modules	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
1	English	en	97,561	290,976	4,296,062	10	3,478,843	267	2,683
2	Vietnamese	vi	50,027	90,798	516,101	2	18,587	15	993
3	Hungarian	hu	42,494	106,185	495,128	3	15,176	23	21,343
4	German	de	32,608	79,189	1,041,728	8	112,819	62	7,836
5	French	fr	20,753	58,371	731,407	7	119,182	53	169
6	Italian	it	18,065	39,460	464,705	3	51,723	81	756
7	Japanese	ja	16,346	31,358	262,688	4	84,791	77	359
8	Portuguese	pt	13,735	80,689	496,234	3	69,971	31	983
9	Spanish	es	9,558	39,709	419,900	10	124,481	28	0
10	Dutch	nl	9,182	29,623	389,560	8	28,613	27	21
11	Polish	pl	6,882	42,343	490,607	3	37,279	36	932
12	Indonesian	id	5,255	19,006	99,855	3	39,825	23	864
13	Finnish	fi	4,868	15,577	154,803	4	11,539	15	345
14	Hebrew	he	4,690	18,940	174,940	5	24,790	18	1,708
15	Chinese	zh	3,717	19,223	178,687	8	66,125	38	102
16	Russian	ru	3,535	24,149	241,259	3	76,680	35	1,863
17	Persian	fa	3,489	31,672	129,770	2	27,013	14	804
18	Azerbaijani	az	3,375	9,065	42,017	2	12,503	16	1
19	Albanian	sq	3,281	7,670	35,351	2	5,042	6	308
20	Lithuanian	lt	2,621	6,840	36,089	1	3,397	8	169
21	Catalan	ca	2,214	7,970	75,607	2	10,445	8	7
22	Basque	eu	2,055	4,574	39,791	1	2,419	9	29
23	Thai	th	1,598	16,478	64,518	3	12,303	13	287
24	Czech	cs	1,534	5,515	54,023	3	11,111	15	27
25	Danish	da	1,339	4,341	38,764	1	7,789	8	0
26	Korean	ko	1,302	6,906	45,259	2	8,635	20	23
27	Hindi	hi	1,261	6,592	81,507	2	12,559	14	0
28	Bashkir	ba	1,216	3,585	25,133	1	1,375	5	0
29	Swedish	sv	1,211	6,318	56,645	5	12,381	16	124
30	Galician	gl	1,170	3,272	20,621	2	2,939	6	15
31	Ukrainian	uk	1,153	3,897	38,702	2	8,761	10	55
32	Serbian	sr	1,113	3,308	22,968	4	13,394	24	156
33	Bangla	bn	1,042	18,118	70,520	2	10,723	24	1
34	Croatian	hr	980	3,647	21,403	2	4,628	7	167
35	Turkish	tr	975	7,961	61,267	3	20,894	14	56
36	Norwegian	no	967	4,833	45,442	1	5,353	6	4
37	Sinhala	si	949	12,274	30,730	2	3,578	9	60
38	Arabic	ar	846	46,354	219,317	6	41,704	27	0
39	Sanskrit	sa	842	1,693	7,404	1	2,798	3	0
40	Tamil	ta	712	3,784	18,004	1	6,948	9	255
41	Esperanto	eo	553	3,495	25,937	2	4,278	9	452
42	Icelandic	is	509	3,163	34,957	3	4,174	7	11
43	Slovak	sk	503	2,147	21,608	3	3,704	6	2
44	Romanian	ro	455	4,434	36,663	2	7,759	8	164
45	Malay	ms	316	2,983	13,179	2	3,199	9	76
46	Bulgarian	bg	316	2,022	16,266	1	5,427	4	28
47	Macedonian	mk	311	1,961	12,907	1	3,304	3	23
48	Georgian	ka	288	5,178	18,898	1	5,061	4	1,330
49	Tatar	tt	271	1,642	7,373	1	2,195	4	43
50	Greek	el	250	3,902	56,315	1	7,830	7	1,145
51	Limburgish	li	241	1,188	3,157	1	1,468	3	1
52	Slovenian	sl	236	1,969	20,182	3	4,487	8	530
53	Tagalog	tl	231	2,377	28,594	1	5,056	6	0
54	Urdu	ur	226	1,568	9,003	1	3,705	4	37
55	Shan	shn	194	4,443	10,864	2	396	3	0
56	Khmer	km	183	1,044	9,868	1	2,903	3	15
57	Latin	la	177	1,382	10,612	1	2,753	5	0
58	Marathi	mr	159	1,793	13,669	1	3,367	5	1
59	Kazakh	kk	155	1,577	9,266	1	3,216	5	1
60	Telugu	te	148	1,095	24,409	1	3,104	6	1
61	Belarusian	be	133	1,070	7,704	1	3,780	8	0
62	Estonian	et	132	1,619	19,907	1	2,891	5	129
63	Chuvash	cv	121	731	7,231	1	2,111	5	5
64	Interlingua	ia	117	828	6,048	1	2,123	4	0
65	Malayalam	ml	106	3,364	18,087	1	4,376	4	24
66	Occitan	oc	99	748	5,779	1	1,887	4	1
67	Punjabi	pa	78	1,155	6,047	1	2,057	7	0
68	Nepali	ne	77	2,009	17,716	1	4,641	4	4
69	Armenian	hy	75	1,792	10,769	1	5,348	4	35
70	Tajik	tg	56	871	3,606	1	1,863	3	0
71	Kurdish	ku	45	601	6,866	1	2,080	5	0
72	Malagasy	mg	39	544	4,956	1	1,828	5	0
73	Western Frisian	fy	39	616	5,149	1	2,379	3	7
74	Afrikaans	af	33	1,150	7,431	1	2,676	4	0
75	Bosnian	bs	32	751	7,101	1	2,569	3	8
76	Welsh	cy	30	687	5,140	1	2,178	6	0
77	Kyrgyz	ky	14	538	5,172	1	2,951	4	4

Totals	Book modules	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikibooks	383,469	1,280,700	12,262,952	184	4,734,240	1,307	47,582

Languages that use Wikipedia to serve their Wikibooks

• The Alemannic Wikibooks has been created as a separate namespace within the Alemannic Wikipedia.
• The Bavarian Wikibooks has been created as a separate namespace within the Bavarian Wikipedia.
• The Rhine Franconian Wikibooks has been created as a separate namespace within the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia.

External links

• Wikibooks: developing and disseminating textbooks and other texts.