Wikibooks

Wikibooks is an open-source textbook creation project with versions in many languages/

The Activities/G1G1 activity group includes some wikibooks, see Activities/Wikibooks_(8.2).

Existe esse projeto com alguns livros em português que poderiam ser aproveitados. LINK

Description

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
• En: 26,000 modules
• Es: 3000 modules
• Pt: 5000 modules
• Ar: 300 modules
• Size: very large

Formats

• Materials are currently in wikimedia's standard format, including plain text, latex images, pictures, and so on.
• We may need to write a script to download part of the database of articles for use on the XOs or the school servers.

Curator Info

Group: Wiki texts

Group coordinator: None

Curators:

Allottable size

Assessment

Scope Subject coverage is relatively broad.

Completeness Few books are complete -- even basic English texts are frequently composed of empty modules (i.e. modules with section titles have been created but have not had any text filled in).

Multilingualism

• En: 26,000 modules
• Es: 3000 modules
• Pt: 5000 modules
• Ar: 300 modules

Quality generally medium quality writing, in the few instances that books (or chapters) are complete

Freeness standard Wikimedia free licensing

Comments, Tags, and Ratings

XO

School library

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See also

• WikiBrowse a condensed set of wiki pages served to Browse by a local specialized web server
• Wikislices a set of wiki pages in HTML format.
• InfoSlicer is a tool to create a collection from content (such as Wikipedia pages) on the Internet.