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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.

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

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 97,383 291,623 4,326,416 11 3,486,484 276 2,627
2 Vietnamese vi 50,053 90,829 516,724 2 18,702 13 993
3 Hungarian hu 43,093 107,349 501,444 3 15,312 24 21,351
4 German de 33,122 75,488 1,053,618 8 113,298 68 3,526
5 French fr 20,864 58,562 737,485 7 119,766 52 169
6 Italian it 18,456 40,259 470,688 3 52,138 116 744
7 Japanese ja 17,156 32,625 268,682 4 86,281 126 246
8 Portuguese pt 13,797 80,764 497,051 3 70,377 34 983
9 Spanish es 9,591 39,936 421,331 10 124,900 37 0
10 Dutch nl 9,219 29,691 391,015 8 28,747 24 20
11 Polish pl 6,889 42,431 498,885 3 37,535 30 932
12 Indonesian id 5,322 19,343 103,359 4 40,237 94 862
13 Finnish fi 4,991 15,912 156,987 4 11,626 17 335
14 Hebrew he 4,699 18,947 175,093 5 24,955 15 1,708
15 Chinese zh 3,748 19,291 179,691 8 66,486 28 93
16 Persian fa 3,496 31,995 130,832 2 27,248 30 831
17 Russian ru 3,485 24,211 246,304 4 77,157 51 1,841
18 Azerbaijani az 3,393 9,274 42,851 2 12,620 24 1
19 Albanian sq 3,282 7,666 35,375 1 5,088 6 308
20 Lithuanian lt 3,229 7,545 41,324 1 3,443 11 169
21 Catalan ca 2,221 7,976 75,729 2 10,560 14 7
22 Basque eu 2,168 4,790 40,983 1 2,476 15 29
23 Thai th 1,598 16,588 64,762 3 12,400 13 287
24 Czech cs 1,539 5,516 54,229 3 11,202 14 27
25 Danish da 1,339 4,343 39,644 1 7,864 12 0
26 Korean ko 1,303 6,913 45,489 2 8,718 19 23
27 Hindi hi 1,257 6,655 82,172 2 12,733 35 0
28 Bashkir ba 1,216 3,586 25,145 1 1,419 6 0
29 Swedish sv 1,209 6,317 57,101 5 12,436 13 124
30 Galician gl 1,170 3,270 20,631 1 2,976 5 15
31 Ukrainian uk 1,156 3,902 38,828 2 8,864 16 55
32 Serbian sr 1,118 3,427 23,315 4 13,457 9 156
33 Sinhala si 1,049 13,814 33,770 2 3,629 8 57
34 Bangla bn 1,049 18,413 71,256 2 10,936 19 1
35 Turkish tr 995 8,050 61,981 3 21,062 17 56
36 Croatian hr 980 3,646 21,420 2 4,683 7 167
37 Norwegian no 967 4,815 45,495 1 5,409 11 4
38 Arabic ar 844 46,825 220,787 6 41,939 29 0
39 Sanskrit sa 842 1,691 7,429 1 2,843 6 0
40 Tamil ta 714 3,783 18,062 1 7,008 10 255
41 Esperanto eo 568 3,518 26,070 2 4,335 9 452
42 Icelandic is 509 3,157 34,975 3 4,220 6 11
43 Slovak sk 503 2,143 21,655 3 3,743 7 2
44 Romanian ro 455 4,434 36,688 2 7,825 7 164
45 Malay ms 323 3,034 13,336 2 3,251 10 76
46 Bulgarian bg 316 2,011 16,294 1 5,488 10 28
47 Macedonian mk 311 1,953 12,959 1 3,353 6 23
48 Georgian ka 299 5,210 19,042 1 5,109 10 1,330
49 Tatar tt 270 1,638 7,382 1 2,242 6 43
50 Greek el 250 3,903 56,327 1 7,903 7 1,145
51 Slovenian sl 242 1,979 20,330 3 4,537 10 530
52 Limburgish li 241 1,187 3,164 1 1,499 5 1
53 Tagalog tl 231 2,375 28,604 1 5,098 6 0
54 Urdu ur 226 1,571 9,014 1 3,746 5 37
55 Shan shn 196 4,443 10,981 2 441 5 0
56 Khmer km 183 1,038 9,881 1 2,946 5 15
57 Latin la 181 1,387 10,641 1 2,795 5 0
58 Marathi mr 159 1,777 13,692 1 3,407 7 1
59 Kazakh kk 157 1,573 9,350 1 3,272 8 1
60 Telugu te 149 1,114 24,726 1 3,155 10 1
61 Belarusian be 138 1,082 7,747 1 3,835 8 0
62 Estonian et 132 1,618 19,922 1 2,931 7 129
63 Interlingua ia 118 828 6,059 1 2,167 6 0
64 Malayalam ml 106 3,352 18,117 1 4,421 9 24
65 Occitan oc 99 740 5,793 1 1,922 6 1
66 Nepali ne 80 2,016 18,455 1 4,782 6 4
67 Punjabi pa 77 1,154 6,056 1 2,099 6 0
68 Armenian hy 76 1,788 10,785 1 5,399 9 35
69 Tajik tg 56 870 3,616 1 1,901 5 0
70 Kurdish ku 45 601 6,880 1 2,120 9 0
71 Malagasy mg 39 541 4,965 1 1,859 6 0
72 Western Frisian fy 39 615 5,167 1 2,412 6 7
73 Chuvash cv 37 636 7,239 1 2,144 7 5
74 Afrikaans af 33 1,148 7,452 1 2,726 8 0
75 Bosnian bs 32 749 7,107 1 2,612 7 8
76 Welsh cy 30 687 5,147 1 2,220 7 0
77 Kyrgyz ky 14 538 5,174 1 2,988 4 4
Totals Book modules All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikibooks 386,922 1,286,469 12,374,175 185 4,751,917 1,614 43,079

Languages that use Wikipedia to serve their Wikibooks

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