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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 textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
In September 2015, Compete.com estimates that Wikibooks had 2,102,708 unique visitors.
The wikibooks.org domain was registered on July 19, 2003 (2003-07-19), and launched in response to a request made by Wikipedia contributor Karl Wick for a project to host and build free textbooks on subjects such as organic chemistry and physics. Two major sub-projects, Wikijunior and Wikiversity, were created within Wikibooks before its official policy was later changed so that future incubator type projects are started according to the Wikimedia Foundation's new project policy. In August 2006, Wikiversity became an independent Wikimedia Foundation project.
Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in 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, Spanish and Arabic. It is funded by a grant from the Beck Foundation.
Editing Wikibooks basics
WikiBooks in Five Minutes
How to create Wikibooks
Printing books from Wikibooks
Wikibooks 1
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Wikibooks - en introduktion
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Referenser i Wikibooks - kort genomgång
Editing Wikibooks basics
Five minutes on the advantages of WikiBooks for supplementing other teaching materials. There is also a two minute version putting across about 10 concise points.
Screen recording on how to generate a PDF version of a wikibook, ready for printing.