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	97,581	290,932	4,293,011	10	3,477,123	275	2,689
2	Vietnamese	vi	50,162	90,940	514,396	2	18,560	19	993
3	Hungarian	hu	42,186	105,250	491,186	3	15,145	18	21,339
4	German	de	32,352	78,937	1,040,064	8	112,725	62	7,845
5	French	fr	20,732	58,343	729,376	7	119,045	37	169
6	Italian	it	17,834	39,159	462,609	3	51,623	46	756
7	Japanese	ja	16,291	31,237	261,644	4	84,562	55	359
8	Portuguese	pt	13,725	80,652	495,943	3	69,877	28	983
9	Spanish	es	9,550	39,665	419,561	10	124,395	34	0
10	Dutch	nl	9,172	29,606	389,000	8	28,580	21	21
11	Polish	pl	6,882	42,339	490,079	3	37,231	27	932
12	Indonesian	id	5,256	18,974	99,707	3	39,751	30	864
13	Finnish	fi	4,869	15,578	154,707	4	11,522	14	345
14	Hebrew	he	4,689	18,931	174,849	5	24,763	13	1,708
15	Chinese	zh	3,718	19,204	178,407	8	66,036	23	102
16	Russian	ru	3,521	24,110	240,564	3	76,568	40	1,862
17	Persian	fa	3,487	31,665	129,613	2	26,968	16	838
18	Azerbaijani	az	3,372	9,021	41,818	2	12,479	11	1
19	Albanian	sq	3,281	7,668	35,323	2	5,033	2	308
20	Lithuanian	lt	2,621	6,829	35,925	1	3,388	6	169
21	Catalan	ca	2,214	7,969	75,583	2	10,374	10	7
22	Basque	eu	2,055	4,572	39,649	1	2,416	7	29
23	Thai	th	1,598	16,452	64,461	3	12,280	10	287
24	Czech	cs	1,534	5,512	53,955	3	11,092	14	27
25	Danish	da	1,339	4,339	38,722	1	7,764	6	0
26	Korean	ko	1,299	6,811	43,828	2	8,611	21	23
27	Hindi	hi	1,259	6,585	81,465	2	12,528	9	0
28	Bashkir	ba	1,216	3,585	25,127	1	1,370	3	0
29	Swedish	sv	1,210	6,288	56,349	4	12,364	18	124
30	Galician	gl	1,170	3,270	20,607	2	2,933	2	15
31	Ukrainian	uk	1,152	3,893	38,677	2	8,744	6	55
32	Serbian	sr	1,112	3,280	22,893	4	13,347	7	156
33	Bangla	bn	1,042	18,047	70,366	2	10,679	17	1
34	Croatian	hr	980	3,645	21,389	2	4,621	5	167
35	Turkish	tr	977	7,952	61,140	3	20,865	12	56
36	Norwegian	no	968	4,833	45,431	1	5,344	3	4
37	Sinhala	si	919	11,935	30,055	2	3,566	6	60
38	Arabic	ar	845	46,208	219,105	6	41,656	23	0
39	Sanskrit	sa	842	1,691	7,394	1	2,790	4	0
40	Tamil	ta	717	3,787	17,983	1	6,938	5	255
41	Esperanto	eo	552	3,519	25,894	2	4,271	5	452
42	Icelandic	is	509	3,163	34,936	3	4,167	3	11
43	Slovak	sk	503	2,146	21,589	3	3,699	6	2
44	Romanian	ro	455	4,433	36,652	2	7,751	8	164
45	Malay	ms	317	2,973	13,150	2	3,193	5	76
46	Bulgarian	bg	316	2,021	16,254	1	5,417	3	28
47	Macedonian	mk	312	1,964	12,894	1	3,295	2	23
48	Georgian	ka	288	5,176	18,821	1	5,056	3	1,330
49	Tatar	tt	271	1,640	7,364	1	2,188	2	43
50	Greek	el	250	3,904	56,290	1	7,817	7	1,148
51	Limburgish	li	241	1,186	3,148	1	1,464	3	1
52	Slovenian	sl	235	1,971	20,157	3	4,483	6	530
53	Tagalog	tl	231	2,375	28,583	1	5,052	6	0
54	Urdu	ur	226	1,567	8,989	1	3,698	3	37
55	Khmer	km	183	1,047	9,859	1	2,898	2	15
56	Latin	la	177	1,381	10,600	2	2,748	3	0
57	Marathi	mr	160	1,795	13,654	1	3,359	4	1
58	Kazakh	kk	155	1,575	9,239	1	3,211	5	1
59	Shan	shn	148	4,388	10,651	2	388	4	0
60	Telugu	te	148	1,094	24,329	1	3,095	7	1
61	Belarusian	be	133	1,069	7,687	1	3,775	5	0
62	Estonian	et	132	1,617	19,893	1	2,885	3	129
63	Interlingua	ia	117	833	6,031	1	2,118	2	0
64	Malayalam	ml	106	3,360	18,070	1	4,370	5	24
65	Occitan	oc	99	747	5,768	1	1,882	2	1
66	Punjabi	pa	78	1,153	6,026	1	2,051	2	0
67	Nepali	ne	77	2,006	17,703	1	4,632	4	4
68	Armenian	hy	75	1,790	10,759	1	5,341	3	35
69	Chuvash	cv	67	723	7,107	1	2,106	3	5
70	Tajik	tg	56	868	3,596	1	1,857	2	0
71	Kurdish	ku	45	600	6,853	1	2,073	2	0
72	Malagasy	mg	39	542	4,943	1	1,822	3	0
73	Western Frisian	fy	39	614	5,141	1	2,375	2	7
74	Afrikaans	af	33	1,148	7,415	1	2,672	3	0
75	Bosnian	bs	32	750	7,090	1	2,562	2	8
76	Welsh	cy	29	687	5,121	1	2,173	2	0
77	Kyrgyz	ky	15	536	5,163	1	2,945	1	4

Totals	Book modules	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikibooks	382,578	1,278,055	12,239,380	184	4,730,545	1,098	47,629

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.