Wikibooks


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Open books for an open world

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.

Content primarily consists of instructional texts, including:

  • Textbooks
  • How-to guides
  • A cookbook section containing recipes.
  • Educational children's books.
  • Video game strategy guides.

You can visit the site here.

Tropes used in Wikibooks include:
  • About the Author: Occasionally included, such as in the FOSS Education Wikibook here.
  • The Annotated Edition: Wikibooks works to develop annotated texts: Non-annotated works go to Wikisource.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Wikibooks-Tan has some artwork on Wikimedia Commons. Here is one depiction.
  • Beige Prose: Tends towards this.
  • Doorstopper: Some of the individual books would be quite lengthy if printed out. The entire English version of the site is approaching 100,000 webpages as of August 11, 2024, many of which would print out to be multiple pages in print.
    • Individual Wikibooks can also invert this. Some are designed to fit on a single webpage, sometimes fitting into a booklet when printed.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: Before Wikimedia adopted the Wikivoyage project, travel guides were developed on Wikibooks. A shelf exists for it here, but contributors are encouraged to contribute to Wikivoyage when it is a better fit.
  • Outlived Its Creator: Some books have been abandoned by their original creators and carried on by other users.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: A website designed explicitly to address the need for manuals to read.
  • Serious Business: Video Game strategy guides were banned from the mid 2000's to the early 2020s.
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy: Because Wikibooks contains instructional texts, minutia that would be deemed inappropriate for Wikipedia is more welcome if it supports the educational goals of a text.
  • The Wiki Rule: Is a Wiki dedicated to instructional texts. Typically these are textbooks, but it also hosts recipes and video game strategy guides.
  • X Meets Y: Wikisource meets school. Basically a website of this trope as applied to textbooks and manuals.
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