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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 |
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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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. It covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. Launched 14 September 2004, Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of July 2014, has over 400,000 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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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. |
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Unlike other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews is licensed under [ |
Unlike other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews is licensed under [//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5] rather than [//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]. |
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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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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 |
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 16 languages. |
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* [//www.wikivoyage.org/ Multilingual portal] |
* [//www.wikivoyage.org/ Multilingual portal] |
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The project has three community-driven mechanisms for highlighting quality contributions: [[commons:Commons:Featured pictures|Featured pictures]] which acknowledge the cream of the crop, and [[commons:Commons:Quality Images|Quality images]], which recognise well-composed creations by Wikimedia editors. Since 2006 it has run a [[commons:Commons:Picture of the Year|Picture of the Year]] competition, which invites the wider Wikimedia community to share in the celebration of the inspiring free content imagery. Two pages, [[commons:Commons:Meet our photographers|Meet our photographers]] and [[commons:Commons:Meet our illustrators|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. |
The project has three community-driven mechanisms for highlighting quality contributions: [[commons:Commons:Featured pictures|Featured pictures]] which acknowledge the cream of the crop, and [[commons:Commons:Quality Images|Quality images]], which recognise well-composed creations by Wikimedia editors. Since 2006 it has run a [[commons:Commons:Picture of the Year|Picture of the Year]] competition, which invites the wider Wikimedia community to share in the celebration of the inspiring free content imagery. Two pages, [[commons:Commons:Meet our photographers|Meet our photographers]] and [[commons:Commons:Meet our illustrators|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. |
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For more information on Commons, please see [[Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons]]. |
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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 12:41, 19 July 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.