Wikibooks: Collaborative development of free textbooks
Wikibooks (previously called Wiki Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a collection of free books.
It is one of many projects that are run by the Wiki Foundation. It is a wiki, which makes it possible for anyone to edit.
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Type of site | Textbooks wiki |
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| Available in | multilingual |
| Owner | Wiki Foundation |
| Created by | Karl Wick and the Wiki Community |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 10, 2003 |
| 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.
Other websites
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Wikibooks, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
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