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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. |
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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, |
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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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 |
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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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 |
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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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 |
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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== 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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== {{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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== {{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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* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs Wikimedia Labs at MediaWiki.org] |
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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.