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Wikibooks
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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.
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Type of site | Textbooks wiki |
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Available in | Multilingual (77 active)[1] |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | User Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community |
URL | wikibooks |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | July 10, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07-10) |
Current status | Active |
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Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.[2] As of August 2024, there are Wikibooks sites active for 77 languages[1] comprising a total of 380,503 articles and 1,195 recently active editors.[3]