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)[reply]

Significant Milestones for en.wikibooks (anticipated by July)

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

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

Still not many active users
Most of books concentrate on programming and foreign languages

Important events

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

Big Cats was completed and typeset. Print edition is currently on hold, but complete.

Wikiversity

PDF Files/Printable Wikibooks

Wikibooks started creating printable versions of books
Currently more than 20 books are available as ready-to-print PDF files

Significant Wikibooks of Note

Other languages

German

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

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

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