Wikibooks is a free online collection of textbooks and manuals that anyone can read and edit, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It began in 2003 as a sister project of Wikipedia, intended to hold instructional material that did not fit in an encyclopedia, such as textbooks, cookbooks and programming guides. The content is released under free licenses, so it can be copied and adapted, and it is available in many languages with the English edition being the largest. Contributors write complete books chapter by chapter, and the project has been used by students and teachers as a source of open educational material. It has remained a smaller project than Wikipedia, relying on a modest community of volunteers.
Before and after
- 9 July 2003Release of Arabic Wikipedia
- 9 July 2003Release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- 11 July 2003Release of Hindi Wikipedia
- 12 July 2003Release of Romanian Wikipedia
- 19 July 2003Release of Wikibooks
- 28 July 2003Release of Mozilla Thunderbird
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 25 August 2003Discovery of Cupid
- 25 August 2003Discovery of Mab
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.