w:Wikibooks

{{Infobox website

| name = Wikibooks

| logo = File:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg

| screenshot = Wikibooks 2024.png

| collapsible = yes

| caption = Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page

| url = {{URL|https://wikibooks.org/}}

| commercial = No

| type = Textbooks wiki

| language = Multilingual ({{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} active)

| registration = Optional

| owner = Wikimedia Foundation

| author = User Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community

| launch_date = {{start date and age|2003|07|10}}

| current_status = Active

}}

File:Wikibooks growth.png

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.{{cite web | url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | title=Wikibooks Statistics - Article count (official) | publisher=Wikimedia | access-date=28 January 2018 | archive-date=14 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414141656/https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | url-status=live }} As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites active for {{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} languagesWikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab comprising a total of {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} articles and {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} recently active editors.Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

History

The wikibooks.org domain was registered on July 19, 2003.{{cite web|title=Wikibooks.org Whois Record|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org|publisher=DomainTools, LLC|access-date=22 January 2013|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123190604/https://whois.domaintools.com/wikibooks.org|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|title=Talk:Science Hypertextbook project|work=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|date=June 23, 2003|accessdate=October 1, 2022|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/153077}}{{cite mailing list|title=a spot for WP textbook devel|first=Karl|last=Wick|mailing-list=wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|date=June 17, 2003|accessdate=October 1, 2022|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CYNWNQMHZTBDWXLJEGEARN3AAQAP2V4L/}} 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.{{clarify|date=May 2022}}

In August 2006, Wikiversity became an independent Wikimedia Foundation project.{{Cite web|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/14633/wikipedia-now-serving-k-12-and-over|title=Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over|date=2006-08-04|website=Mental Floss |language=en|access-date=2019-09-28|archive-date=2019-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928193247/http://mentalfloss.com/article/14633/wikipedia-now-serving-k-12-and-over|url-status=dead }}

Since 2008, Wikibooks has been included in BASE.{{cite web |url=https://www.base-search.net/Record/a54c9de5aeca8c528f687d1e1d3827e4a5c3eb8638dc57a0557413f8c3206069/|title=Wikibooks: Viquillibres: Portada|website=Bielefeld Academic Search Engine |access-date=15 January 2018|archive-date=28 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128015710/https://www.base-search.net/Record/a54c9de5aeca8c528f687d1e1d3827e4a5c3eb8638dc57a0557413f8c3206069/|url-status=live}}

In June 2016, Compete.com estimated that Wikibooks had 1,478,812 unique visitors.{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ |title=Site Profile for wikibooks.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608021108/http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wikibooks.org/ |archive-date=2010-06-08 |website=compete |access-date=July 19, 2016}}

= Wikijunior =

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|date=January 2023}}

Book content

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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.

File:Wikibooks structure.svg

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

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikibooks sites for {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikibooks}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikibooks}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikibooks}} are closed. The active sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} articles and the closed sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalclosed.wikibooks|N}} articles. There are {{NUMBEROF|users|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikibooks|N}} are recently active.

The top ten Wikibooks language projects by mainspace article count:

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Files

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| {{NUMBEROF|edits|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}

| {{NUMBEROF|admins|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}

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| {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}

| {{NUMBEROF|files|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikibooks}}.wikibooks|N}}|count=10 }}

For a complete list with totals, see Wikimedia Statistics.{{cite web |url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks#Statistics |title=Wikibooks Statistics |work=Meta.Wikimedia.org |access-date=11 September 2020 |archive-date=13 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913025953/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks#Statistics |url-status=live }}

Reception

Meng-Fen et al suggested that while there isn't much social connection between contributors of wikibooks, the contributors had no major issues coordinating to write books.{{Cite journal |title=Wikibooks and Wikibookians: Loosely Coupled Community or a Choice for Future Textbooks? |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5744067 |access-date=2024-03-14 |journal=IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies| date=October 2011 | volume=4 | issue=4 | pages=327–339 | doi=10.1109/TLT.2011.12 | last1=Lin | first1=Meng-Fen Grace | last2=Sajjapanroj | first2=Suthiporn | last3=Bonk | first3=Curtis J. }}