Wikibooks:State of the Project/2006

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.

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

 * Ada Programming
 * Cookbook
 * Consciousness studies
 * French
 * German

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 &mdash; 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
 * 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