Wikibooks facts for kids
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Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page
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Type of site
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Textbooks wiki |
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| Available in | multilingual |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | User Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community |
| Alexa rank | ▼ 1,937 (February 2019[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 10, 2003 |
| 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 closed and locked due to anti-Simple-English users on Meta-Wiki misleading the Wikimedia Language Committee
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.
Images for kids
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Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–Jan 2010
See also
In Spanish: Wikilibros para niños
