Wikibooks Open Content Textbooks

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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:02 am by ndaru

Wikibooks Open Content Textbooks

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Wikibooks has the same spirit as Wikipedia, as an online open collaboration project. An author publishes his/her book (or stubs of it) inside Wikibook library and other people then contributes to make suggestions or even add, remove or edit parts of the book along the way.

Some books are completely written and published inside Wikibooks library. Others (like Knowing Knoppix) have been published outside Wikibooks before their authors decided to contribute them.

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Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003, since than Wikibooks has grown to include over 27,586 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!

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Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003. Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone, including you, can edit right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks module. Contributors maintain the property rights to their contributions, while the GNU Free Documentation License makes sure that the submitted version and its derivative works will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. See Wikibooks:Copyrights for more information.

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