Wikibooks

Wikibooks

Screenshot Screenshot of wikibooks.org home page
Website type	Textbooks wiki
Available in	Multilingual (77 active)
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Creator	Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community
Website	wikibooks.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	July 10, 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current status	Active

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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 365,185 articles and 1,496 recently active editors. At primary stages it was called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks.