Wikibooks

Wikimedia project for free content textbooks WikibooksScreenshot Screenshot of wikibooks.org home pageWebsite typeTextbooks wikiAvailable inMultilingual (77 active)OwnerWikimedia FoundationCreatorKarl Wick and the Wikimedia CommunityWebsitewikibooks.orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptionalLaunchedJuly 10, 2003; 23 years ago (2003-07-10)Current statusActive Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010 Wikibooks 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. As of September 2026, there are Wikibooks sites active for 77 languages comprising a total of 365,020 articles and 1,482 recently active editors. At primary stages it was called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks. History The wikibooks.org domain was registered on July 19, 2003. It was launched to host and build free textbooks on subjects such as organic chemistry and physics, in response to a request by Wikipedia contribu