Wikibooks

Wikibooks

Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page
Type of site	Textbooks wiki
Available in	multilingual
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community
URL	www.wikibooks.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	July 10, 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current status	Active

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.

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.

Other websites

• Wikibooks Main page
• Wikibooks in English