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Wikibooks, previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, is part of the Wikimedia foundation, begun on July 10, 2003.
The project is a collection of free textbooks with supporting book-based texts, that is being written collaboratively on this website. The site is a WikiWiki, meaning that anyone, including 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 Wikipedia's 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 splitted into several language-specific subdomains on July 21, 2004.
Some of the first books were completely original and others began as text copied over from other sources of GNU FDL textbooks found on the Internet. All of the site's content is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. 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.
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Logo de Wikilivres en français© Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

 en français, projet de la , dépasse aujourd'hui les , rattrapant ainsi le duo de tête formé par les versions anglophone et germanophone.

Les deux plus grands livres de la bibliothèque sont :
# Le livre de photographie (2 733 pages).
# Le livre de cuisine (1 352 pages).

Il existe aussi de nombreux tutoriels dans des domaines très variés, comme les langages informatiques ou logiciels les plus connus, ou encore Wikijunior : le livre à destination des moins de douze ans.

De plus, une vitrine expose régulièrement les nouveaux livres terminés.