Wikibooks:State of the Project/2006
 | This page is being written in preparation for the 3-year anniversary (July 10th, 2006) of Wikibooks, and is to be a formal report presented to the Wikimedia Foundation on behalf of this project. This is to show off the accomplishments of this project and to let people outside of the Wikibooks community know some of the cool things that are happening here. --Rob Horning 18:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC) |
Significant Milestones for en.wikibooks (anticipated by July) edit
- Over 15,000 Wikibook modules
- Over 1000 Wikibooks
- Over 500,000 edits
- Over 25,000 registered users
- Nearly 50 books near completion, and many other books in good condition.
Significant Milestones for all Wikibooks projects edit
- Over 40,000 Wikibook modules
- Over 50,000 Registered Users editing Wikibooks
- Over 30 active languages (> 100 modules in each project)
- Over 7 projects > 1000 modules (Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and English)
- Over 50% of Wikibooks now is non-English
Project state edit
- Still not many active users
- Most of books concentrate on programming and foreign languages
Important events edit
- Project overcame moment of inactivity
- Rethinking of some project policies, page naming policy was finally introduced
- Major reconstruction of main page resulting in more readable look
- New namespace for Cookbook
Wikijunior edit
- Big Cats was completed and typeset. Print edition is currently on hold, but complete.
Wikiversity edit
PDF Files/Printable Wikibooks edit
- Wikibooks started creating printable versions of books
- Currently more than 20 books are available as ready-to-print PDF files
Significant Wikibooks of Note edit
Other languages edit
German edit
- Over 5,000 Wikibook modules
- Over 400 Wikibooks
- Over 160,000 edits
- Over 3,500 registered users
- Over twenty books complete, and some others in good condition.
- Our largest book is A linux kompendium with 100 Book-Modules and more than 860 kilobytes of text.
- A book with more than 200 Bookmodules is A Blender Documentation which has also more than 800 kilobytes of text. (as of may 2006 - statistics)
- We translated nearly all english Wikijunior Books into German in a few month — see German Wikijunior section.
Polish edit
- 1000 modules milestone reached in March, 2006 - number of modules has doubled since September, 2005
- 25 000 total edits reached in June, 2006
- significant boost in project activity in 2005
- started vote for new book of a month
- first mention in press - December, 2006
- the largest book is Japanese with 106 chapters and about 400 kilobytes of text
- creation of community portal and redesign of main page (2005)
- started creating print versions in December, 2006 with OGRE; now there are 10 books with print version
- one PDF version created in June, 2006 - Organiczna technika studiowania (covering mind maps and effective learning)
- two large, completed books: Organiczna technika studiowania and IRC
Italian edit
- over 1000 modules in june 2006
- doubled since dec 2005
- great statistic [1]
- redesign of main page in feb 06
- creating pdf and printable version of many books (now 4)
- significative increase in non-language non-computer books like medicine chemistry and physics
- started a big program for transferring non enciclopedic text that are good for books, from wikipedia