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All major projects of the [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] are collaboratively developed by its users using the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. All contributions are licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] (except Wikinews, which is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5]), meaning that their content may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license. See also our [[Special:SiteMatrix|link to all projects]].
'''Our projects''' are the core of the [[m:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]]. All major projects of the [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] are collaboratively developed by users around the world using the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. All contributions are released under a [[w:en:Creative Commons license|free Creative Commons license]], meaning that any project content may be freely used, edited, copied, and redistributed, subject to the terms of the license. A full listing of Wikimedia projects is available here: [[Special:SiteMatrix]].


'''Please note that while other sites may also use [[MediaWiki]] software and therefore look similar to our projects, or may have a name that includes 'Wiki-' or '-pedia', or a similar domain name, the only projects which are part of the Wikimedia Foundation are those listed below.'''
Please note: while other sites use the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software (often giving them a similar visual appearance) or have a name that includes "Wiki-" or "-pedia", only the projects listed below are part of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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== Wikipedia ==
== Wikipedia ==
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Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Virtually anyone with Internet access is free to contribute by contributing neutral, cited information.
Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Virtually anyone with Internet access is free to contribute by contributing neutral, cited information.


Wikipedia started in January 2001, and currently offers more than ten million articles written in 273 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than three million articles; it is followed by the German, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, and Portuguese editions, each of which contain more than half a million articles. Over twenty-five other language editions contain 100,000+ articles, and more than 150 other languages contain 1,000+ articles.
Wikipedia started in January 2001, and currently offers more than 24 million articles written in 284 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than four million articles; it is followed by the Japanese, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Chinese editions, each of which contain more than 600,000 articles. Over 30 other language editions contain 100,000+ articles, and more than 200 other languages contain 1,000+ articles.
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Wikipedia is also known for its community. In 2004 Wikipedia won the Webby Award for "Community" and the Prix Ars Electronica's Golden Nica for "Digital Communities". Since the start of the project, over 650,000 registered users have made at least ten edits to Wikipedia. The total number of accounts created on the English Wikipedia alone exceeds 10 million. However, most edits on that language's edition come from a few thousand of its most dedicated users.

Some Wikipedias release or plan to release regular snapshots. The German Wikipedia is released twice a year as a DVD, in collaboration with Directmedia Publishing, and the Polish Wikipedia has released one DVD of content.

* [//www.wikipedia.org Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikipedia.org Multilingual portal]
* [[m:List of Wikipedias|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:List of Wikipedias|Full list of languages]]
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== Wiktionary ==
== Wiktionary ==
{{project
{{logo|Wiktionary}}
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Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language. This means each project seeks to use a particular language to define all words in ''all'' languages. It actually aims to be much more extensive than a typical dictionary, including thesauri, rhymes, translations, audio pronunciations, etymologies, and quotations. The project started in December 2002, and as of October 2010 is available in over 150 languages with over 3,000,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, followed by French, Lithuanian and Chinese. All four of them have more than 300,000 entries each, while 19 languages in total have more than 100,000 entries each. 67 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.
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Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language. This means each project seeks to use a particular language to define all words in ''all'' languages. It actually aims to be much more extensive than a typical dictionary, including thesauri, rhymes, translations, audio pronunciations, etymologies, and quotations. The project started in December 2002, and as of May 2013 is available in over 150 languages with over 16,000,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, with 3,380,000 entries. Then Malagasy, French, Chinese, and Lithuanian follow. All four of them have more than 600,000 entries each, while 24 other languages have more than 100,000 entries each. 73 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.


Wiktionary works in collaboration with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronunciation.
Wiktionary works in collaboration with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronunciation.
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* [//www.wiktionary.org Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wiktionary.org Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wiktionary|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wiktionary|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikiquote ==
== Wikiquote ==
{{project
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Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote. The project started in July 2003.
Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote. The project started in July 2003.
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* [//www.wikiquote.org Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikiquote.org Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wikiquote|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikiquote|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikibooks ==
== Wikibooks ==
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Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities.
Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities.


As of October 2010, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 35,000 modules from over 2,500 developing books. The German and French follow, each has over 9,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and now has over 139,000 modules from over 5,000 developing books, across over 100 languages.
As of May 2013, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 46,000 modules from over 2,600 developing books. The German, French, and Hungarian follow, each has over 10,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and now has over 185,000 modules from over 5,000 developing books, across over 100 languages.
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* [//www.wikibooks.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikibooks.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wikibooks|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikibooks|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikisource ==
== Wikisource ==
{{project
{{logo|Wikisource}}
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Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of free and open content texts. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as a base for translating these texts. At the beginning, source texts in all languages (except Hebrew) were all on one wiki. However, Wikisource now has several editions in many individual languages.
Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of free and open content texts. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as a base for translating these texts. At the beginning, source texts in all languages (except Hebrew) were all on one wiki. However, Wikisource now has several editions in many individual languages.


As of October 2010, Wikisource offers 880,000 source texts in total. The largest is the English Wikisource, with over 150,000 works. Then Russian and Chinese with each containing over 100,000 source texts.
As of May 2013, Wikisource offers 3,800,000 source texts in total. The largest is the French Wikisource, with over 1,350,000 works. Then German, English, Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese with each containing over 100,000 source texts.
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* [//wikisource.org/ Wikisource (multilingual)]
* [//wikisource.org/ Wikisource (multilingual)]
* [[m:Wikisource|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikisource|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikispecies ==
== Wikispecies ==
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{{logo|Wikispecies}}
| image = {{logo|Wikispecies}}
Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Launched 14 September 2004, Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of October 2010, has over 240,000 entries. There are plans to help Wikispecies collaborate with the [[w:Encyclopedia of Life|Encyclopedia of Life]] project when the latter is more fully underway.
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Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Launched 14 September 2004, Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of January 2013, has over 350,000 entries. There are plans to help Wikispecies collaborate with the [[w:Encyclopedia of Life|Encyclopedia of Life]] project when the latter is more fully underway.
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* [//species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies]
* [//species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies]
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== Wikinews ==
== Wikinews ==
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The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.
The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.

Unlike other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5] rather than [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0].


Currently Wikinews has two aims: providing a free content alternative to commercial news sites and making sure that articles are fact-checked and reviewed thoroughly.
Currently Wikinews has two aims: providing a free content alternative to commercial news sites and making sure that articles are fact-checked and reviewed thoroughly.
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* [//www.wikinews.org Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikinews.org Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wikinews|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikinews|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikiversity ==
== Wikiversity ==
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Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase) on 15 August 2006 with the English and German Wikiversities, as well as the multilingual coordination hub. Despite what its name may suggest, Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.
Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase) on 15 August 2006 with the English and German Wikiversities, as well as the multilingual coordination hub. Despite what its name may suggest, Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.


As of October 2010 there are over 30,000 learning resource entries across 12 languages. The English version contains over 13,000 and both French and German have over 2,000 entries.
As of October 2010 there are over 30,000 learning resource entries across 12 languages. The English version contains over 13,000 and both French and German have over 2,000 entries.
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* [//www.wikiversity.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikiversity.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wikiversity|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikiversity|Full list of languages]]
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== Wikivoyage ==
== Wikivoyage ==
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Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide. Wikivoyage was launched in January 2013 and is written by volunteers in the same spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. The project began in December 2006 as a German language fork of a site named Wikitravel, and joined the Wikimedia Foundation project family as a beta with 50,000 articles in seven languages. Wikivoyage is now available in nine languages.
Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide. Wikivoyage was launched in January 2013 and is written by volunteers in the same spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. The project began in December 2006 as a German language fork of a site named Wikitravel, and joined the Wikimedia Foundation project family as a beta with 50,000 articles in seven languages. Wikivoyage is now available in nine languages.
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* [//www.wikivoyage.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [//www.wikivoyage.org/ Multilingual portal]
* [[m:Wikivoyage|Full list of languages]]
* [[m:Wikivoyage|Full list of languages]]
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== {{anchor|Commons}}Wikimedia Commons ==
== {{anchor|Commons}}Wikimedia Commons ==
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Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.


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For more information on Commons, please see [[Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons]].
For more information on Commons, please see [[Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons]].
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* [//commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]
* [//commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]
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== {{anchor|Wikidata}}Wikidata ==
{{logo|Wikidata}}
Wikidata was launched in October 2012 and aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It will provide data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia hosted and maintained project.


== Wikidata ==
{{project
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Wikidata was launched in October 2012 and aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It provides data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files.
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* [//www.wikidata.org Wikidata]
* [//www.wikidata.org Wikidata]
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== MediaWiki ==
== MediaWiki ==
{{project
{{logo|MediaWiki}}
| image = {{logo|MediaWiki}}
The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects. The [[mw:Manual:What is MediaWiki?|MediaWiki engine]] is used by all Wikimedia projects and [[mw:Sites using MediaWiki|many other sites]]. Its core functionality is being expanded through [[mw:Manual:Extensions|extensions]], [[mw:Gadget kitchen|customizations]], and [[mw:Mobile|mobile applications]]. Developers can use the MediaWiki [[mw:API:Main page|API]] to build applications interacting with sites like Wikipedia. MediaWiki [[mw:How to contribute|welcomes]] technical volunteers for development, testing, system administration, documentation, design, and promotion.
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The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects. The [[mw:Manual:What is MediaWiki?|MediaWiki engine]] is used by all Wikimedia projects and [[mw:Sites using MediaWiki|many other sites]]. Its core functionality can be expanded through [[mw:Manual:Extensions|extensions]], [[mw:Gadget kitchen|customizations]], and [[mw:Mobile|mobile applications]]. Developers can use the MediaWiki [[mw:API:Main page|API]] to build applications interacting with sites like Wikipedia. MediaWiki [[mw:How to contribute|welcomes]] technical volunteers for development, testing, system administration, documentation, design, and promotion.
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* [//www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
* [//www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
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== Meta-Wiki ==
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Meta-Wiki is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events. It has been used for a wide range of purposes, from documenting [[m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies|wiki philosophy]] to submitting [[m:Grants:Index|grant proposals]]. Other notable uses of Meta include [[m:Requests for new languages|"Requests for new languages"]] and the public center for [[m:Stewards|steward]] activity and some [[m:Fundraising|fundraising-related discussions]]. Like Wikidata and Commons, it aims to be multilingual.
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* [//meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki]
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== {{anchor|Incubator}} Wikimedia Incubator ==
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The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki used for developing new wikis. In other words, it is where new editions of Wikimedia content projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.) are created before going "live" to a subdomain like en.wikipedia.org or fr.wikipedia.org. Each wiki being created there is called a "test wiki", and is identified by a code for the project family (such as "Wp" for Wikipedia) and its [[w:ISO 639|ISO 639 code]]. For example, the Votic Wikipedia is being incubated as [[incubator:Wp/vot|Wp/vot]]. Note that Wikisource and Wikiversity have separate "incubators", [[oldwikisource:|www.wikisource.org]] and [[betawikiversity:|Beta Wikiversity]], respectively. Like Meta, Commons, and Wikidata, it aims to have its policies translated into many languages.
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* [//incubator.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Incubator]
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== {{anchor|Labs}} Wikimedia Labs ==
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Wikimedia Labs is a project aimed to help volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development, and to make it easier for system administrators and developers to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki. Wikitech is a site for internal technical documentation of Wikimedia infrastructure, and it is connected with the Wikimedia Labs project.
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* [//wikitech.wikimedia.org Wikitech]
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs Wikimedia Labs at MediaWiki.org]
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[[Category:About Wikimedia]]
[[Category:About Wikimedia]]

Revision as of 18:57, 10 January 2014

Our projects are the core of the Wikimedia movement. All major projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by users around the world using the MediaWiki software. All contributions are released under a free Creative Commons license, meaning that any project content may be freely used, edited, copied, and redistributed, subject to the terms of the license. A full listing of Wikimedia projects is available here: Special:SiteMatrix.

Please note: while other sites use the MediaWiki software (often giving them a similar visual appearance) or have a name that includes "Wiki-" or "-pedia", only the projects listed below are part of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Template:Project navigation

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Virtually anyone with Internet access is free to contribute by contributing neutral, cited information.

Wikipedia started in January 2001, and currently offers more than 24 million articles written in 284 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than four million articles; it is followed by the Japanese, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Chinese editions, each of which contain more than 600,000 articles. Over 30 other language editions contain 100,000+ articles, and more than 200 other languages contain 1,000+ articles.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language. This means each project seeks to use a particular language to define all words in all languages. It actually aims to be much more extensive than a typical dictionary, including thesauri, rhymes, translations, audio pronunciations, etymologies, and quotations. The project started in December 2002, and as of May 2013 is available in over 150 languages with over 16,000,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, with 3,380,000 entries. Then Malagasy, French, Chinese, and Lithuanian follow. All four of them have more than 600,000 entries each, while 24 other languages have more than 100,000 entries each. 73 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.

Wiktionary works in collaboration with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronunciation.

Wikiquote

Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote. The project started in July 2003.

Wikibooks

Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities.

As of May 2013, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 46,000 modules from over 2,600 developing books. The German, French, and Hungarian follow, each has over 10,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and now has over 185,000 modules from over 5,000 developing books, across over 100 languages.

Wikisource

Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of free and open content texts. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as a base for translating these texts. At the beginning, source texts in all languages (except Hebrew) were all on one wiki. However, Wikisource now has several editions in many individual languages.

As of May 2013, Wikisource offers 3,800,000 source texts in total. The largest is the French Wikisource, with over 1,350,000 works. Then German, English, Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese with each containing over 100,000 source texts.

Wikispecies

Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Launched 14 September 2004, Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of January 2013, has over 350,000 entries. There are plans to help Wikispecies collaborate with the Encyclopedia of Life project when the latter is more fully underway.

Wikinews

The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.

Unlike other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 rather than Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.

Currently Wikinews has two aims: providing a free content alternative to commercial news sites and making sure that articles are fact-checked and reviewed thoroughly.

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase) on 15 August 2006 with the English and German Wikiversities, as well as the multilingual coordination hub. Despite what its name may suggest, Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.

As of October 2010 there are over 30,000 learning resource entries across 12 languages. The English version contains over 13,000 and both French and German have over 2,000 entries.

Wikivoyage

Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide. Wikivoyage was launched in January 2013 and is written by volunteers in the same spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. The project began in December 2006 as a German language fork of a site named Wikitravel, and joined the Wikimedia Foundation project family as a beta with 50,000 articles in seven languages. Wikivoyage is now available in nine languages.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.

The project is growing rapidly. In December 2012, it reached fifteen million multimedia files, having surpassed 10 million in April of the previous year. Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards.

The project has three community-driven mechanisms for highlighting quality contributions: Featured pictures which acknowledge the cream of the crop, and Quality images, which recognise well-composed creations by Wikimedia editors. Since 2006 it has run a Picture of the Year competition, which invites the wider Wikimedia community to share in the celebration of the inspiring free content imagery. Two pages, Meet our photographers and Meet our illustrators, showcase a selection of the highly skilled contributors who choose to use free content licenses and donate their work to the Wikimedia Commons.

For more information on Commons, please see Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikidata

Wikidata was launched in October 2012 and aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It provides data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files.

MediaWiki

The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects. The MediaWiki engine is used by all Wikimedia projects and many other sites. Its core functionality can be expanded through extensions, customizations, and mobile applications. Developers can use the MediaWiki API to build applications interacting with sites like Wikipedia. MediaWiki welcomes technical volunteers for development, testing, system administration, documentation, design, and promotion.

Meta-Wiki

Meta-Wiki is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events. It has been used for a wide range of purposes, from documenting wiki philosophy to submitting grant proposals. Other notable uses of Meta include "Requests for new languages" and the public center for steward activity and some fundraising-related discussions. Like Wikidata and Commons, it aims to be multilingual.

Wikimedia Incubator

The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki used for developing new wikis. In other words, it is where new editions of Wikimedia content projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.) are created before going "live" to a subdomain like en.wikipedia.org or fr.wikipedia.org. Each wiki being created there is called a "test wiki", and is identified by a code for the project family (such as "Wp" for Wikipedia) and its ISO 639 code. For example, the Votic Wikipedia is being incubated as Wp/vot. Note that Wikisource and Wikiversity have separate "incubators", www.wikisource.org and Beta Wikiversity, respectively. Like Meta, Commons, and Wikidata, it aims to have its policies translated into many languages.

Wikimedia Labs

Wikimedia Labs is a project aimed to help volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development, and to make it easier for system administrators and developers to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki. Wikitech is a site for internal technical documentation of Wikimedia infrastructure, and it is connected with the Wikimedia Labs project.