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

List of Wikibooks

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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 4,296,098 10 3,478,879 267 2,683
2 Vietnamese vi 50,027 90,798 516,100 2 18,587 15 993
3 Hungarian hu 42,497 106,193 495,237 3 15,176 23 21,343
4 German de 32,618 79,197 1,041,784 8 112,821 62 7,833
5 French fr 20,754 58,371 731,415 7 119,184 53 169
6 Italian it 18,066 39,461 464,737 3 51,723 81 756
7 Japanese ja 16,346 31,363 262,701 4 84,795 77 359
8 Portuguese pt 13,735 80,689 496,234 3 69,973 31 983
9 Spanish es 9,558 39,710 419,901 10 124,486 28 0
10 Dutch nl 9,182 29,623 389,566 8 28,616 27 21
11 Polish pl 6,882 42,344 490,652 3 37,281 36 932
12 Indonesian id 5,255 19,006 99,856 3 39,828 23 864
13 Finnish fi 4,870 15,579 154,812 4 11,540 15 345
14 Hebrew he 4,690 18,940 174,941 5 24,790 18 1,708
15 Chinese zh 3,717 19,223 178,687 8 66,129 38 102
16 Russian ru 3,535 24,150 241,270 3 76,681 35 1,863
17 Persian fa 3,489 31,672 129,772 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 36,094 1 3,397 8 169
21 Catalan ca 2,214 7,970 75,607 2 10,446 8 7
22 Basque eu 2,055 4,574 39,791 1 2,419 9 29
23 Thai th 1,598 16,478 64,519 3 12,303 13 287
24 Czech cs 1,534 5,515 54,023 3 11,112 15 27
25 Danish da 1,339 4,341 38,764 1 7,789 8 0
26 Korean ko 1,303 6,908 45,266 2 8,638 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 1,209 6,316 56,650 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 18,119 70,522 2 10,724 24 1
34 Croatian hr 980 3,647 21,403 2 4,628 7 167
35 Turkish tr 975 7,961 61,272 3 20,894 14 56
36 Norwegian no 967 4,833 45,442 1 5,354 6 4
37 Sinhala si 949 12,274 30,729 2 3,578 9 60
38 Arabic ar 846 46,355 219,318 6 41,707 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 16,267 1 5,428 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 3,781 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 4,643 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 383,485 1,280,729 12,263,307 184 4,734,319 1,307 47,579

Languages that use Wikipedia to serve their Wikibooks

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  • Wikibooks: developing and disseminating textbooks and other texts.
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