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All major projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by its users using the MediaWiki software. All contributions are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (except Wikinews, which is licensed under 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 link to all projects.

Please note that whilst 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.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia logo

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.

The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and currently has over 8,200,000 articles in over 200 languages. As of October 2007, the largest Wikipedia is in the English language, with over 2,000,000 articles; it's followed by the German (645,000+) and French editions (563,000+). Twelve other languages have at least 100,000 articles, over 100 other languages have at least 1,000 articles. New language editions are proposed and launched every month.

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 100,000 registered users have made at least ten edits.^[1] The total number of accounts created on the English Wikipedia alone exceeds 3.4 million. However, most edits on that language edition come from around one thousand of the 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.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary logo

Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and as of October 2007 is available in over 100 languages with over 1,500,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, followed by French, Vietnamese and Russian, all four of them having more than 100,000 entries each. 40 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.

Wiktionary has been collaborating with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons, to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronounciation.

Wikiquote

Wikiquote logo

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; As of May 2007, it includes over 60,000 pages in over 30 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 10,000 pages. The German, Polish, Italian and Slovak, each over 4,000 articles.

Wikibooks

Wikibooks logo

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 mid-2007, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 26,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and has over 70,000 modules from 1000 developing books, across 50 languages.

Wikisource

Wikisource logo

Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as 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 July 2007, Wikisource offers 260,000 source texts in total. The largest is the English Wikisource, with over 65,000 works.

Wikispecies

Wikispecies logo

Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of July 2007, has over 106,000 entries. There are plans to help Wikispecies collaborate with the Encyclopedia of Life project when the latter is more fully underway.

Wikispecies

Wikinews

Wikinews logo

The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of February 2006, Wikinews is active in 22 languages, and has produced more than 25,000 news articles in total as of December 2006. As of January 2007, over 30,000 people subscribed to the English Wikinews through RSS feeds.

Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports are ranged from original reports to summaries of news from external sources. All of them are required to be written from a neutral point of view.

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 logo

Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities - of all learner levels. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase), on 15th August, 2006, subject to a review after six months. Work is ongoing to determine guidelines for its scope, including on research, at the multilingual co-ordination Wikiversity project (to clarify the scope originally approved by the board). A finalised colour scheme for the logo is also being finalised - as are the project's motto and slogan.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons logo

Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free video, images, music, spoken texts, and other free media that can be easily reused by all Wikimedia projects. In October 2007, it reached two million multimedia files, less than a year after reaching one million.

Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards in May 2005.

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

Wikimedia Commons

Related projects

MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is a wiki engine released under the GPL. The MediaWiki software is used by all Wikimedia projects and many other sites.

In 2005 MediaWiki won the prize at les Trophées du Libre in the category special php prize. As of 2007, MediaWiki is in use by many, many websites and projects around the world, and has been downloaded over 1 million times from the SourceForge software archive.

See MediaWiki, its Wikipedia article, or its website for more information.

References

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[1] It is unknown how many users have registered on multiple projects at once.

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+[[Image:Wikimedia logo family.png|thumb|250px|Wikimedia projects family]]
 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 [[:en:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (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]].
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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 started in January 2001, and currently offers more than eight million articles in 250 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than two million articles; it's followed by the German and French editions, each of which contain more than half a million articles. Nine other language editions contain 100,000+ articles, and more than 100 other languages contain 1,000+ articles.
+The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and currently has over 8,200,000 articles in over 200 languages.  As of October 2007, the largest Wikipedia is in the English language, with over 2,000,000 articles; it's followed by the German (645,000+) and French editions (563,000+). Twelve other languages have at least 100,000 articles, over 100 other languages have at least 1,000 articles. New language editions are proposed and launched every month.
 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 100,000 registered users have made at least ten edits.<ref>It is unknown how many users have registered on multiple projects at once.</ref> The total number of accounts created on the English Wikipedia alone exceeds 3.4 million. However, most edits on that language edition come from around one thousand of the most dedicated users.
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 == Wiktionary ==
 [[Image:Wiktionary.png|right|Wiktionary logo]]
-Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and as of January 2008 is available in over 100 languages with over 3,000,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is French, followed by English, Vietnamese and Turkish 	, all four of them having more than 150,000 entries each. 61 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.
+Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and as of October 2007 is available in over 100 languages with over 1,500,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, followed by French, Vietnamese and Russian, all four of them having more than 100,000 entries each. 40 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.
-Wiktionary has been collaborating with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons, to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronunciation.
+Wiktionary has been collaborating with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons, to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronounciation.
 *[http://www.wiktionary.org Multilingual portal]
+*[http://en.wiktionary.org English Wiktionary]
 *[http://fr.wiktionary.org French Wiktionary]
-*[http://en.wiktionary.org English Wiktionary]
 *[http://vi.wiktionary.org Vietnamese Wiktionary]
-*[http://tr.wiktionary.org Turkish Wiktionary]
+*[http://ru.wiktionary.org Russian Wiktionary]
 *[[m:Wiktionary|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikiquote ==
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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; As of January 2008, it includes over 75,903 pages in almost 50 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 10,000 pages. The German, Italian, and Polish, each over 5,000 articles.
+The project started in July 2003; As of May 2007, it includes over 60,000 pages in over 30 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 10,000 pages. The German, Polish, Italian and Slovak, each over 4,000 articles.
 *[http://www.wikiquote.org Multilingual portal]
 *[http://en.wikiquote.org English Wikiquote]
 *[http://de.wikiquote.org German Wikiquote]
+*[http://pl.Wikiquote.org Polish Wikiquote]
 *[http://it.Wikiquote.org Italian Wikiquote]
-*[http://pl.Wikiquote.org Polish Wikiquote]
+*[http://sk.wikiquote.org Slovak Wikiquote]
 *[[m:Wikiquote|Full list of languages]]
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 == 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.
-As of January 2008, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 27,000 modules from over 3,000 developing books. The German and Portuguese follow, each has over 5,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and now has over 84,000 modules from over 5,000 developing books, across over 50 languages.
+As of mid-2007, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 26,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and has over 70,000 modules from 1000 developing books, across 50 languages.
 *[http://www.wikibooks.org/ Multilingual portal]
 *[http://en.wikibooks.org/ English Wikibooks]
 *[http://de.wikibooks.org/ German Wikibooks]
-*[http://pt.wikibooks.org/ Portuguese Wikibooks]
+*[http://fr.wikibooks.org/ French Wikibooks]
 *[[:en:b:Wikibooks portal|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikisource ==
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 Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as 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 January 2008, Wikisource offers 315,000 source texts in total. The largest is the English Wikisource, with over 70,000 works.
+As of July 2007, Wikisource offers 260,000 source texts in total. The largest is the English Wikisource, with over 65,000 works.
 *[http://wikisource.org/ Wikisource (multilingual)]
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 == Wikispecies ==
 [[Image:Wikispecies-logo-en.png|right|Wikispecies logo]]
-Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of January 2008, has over 115,000 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.
+Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of July 2007, has over 106,000 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.
 * [http://species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies]
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 == Wikinews ==
 [[Image:Wikinews-logo.png|200px|right|Wikinews logo]]
-The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of January 2008, 23 language versions of Wikinews have been launched, producing more than 48,000 news articles in total; over '''XX''' people subscribe to the English Wikinews through RSS feeds.
+The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of February 2006, Wikinews is active in 22 languages, and has produced more than 25,000 news articles in total as of December 2006. As of January 2007, over 30,000 people subscribed to the English Wikinews through RSS feeds.
-Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All of them are required to be written from a neutral point of view.
+Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports are ranged from original reports to summaries of news from external sources. All of them are required to be written from a neutral point of view.
 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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 * [http://en.wikinews.org English Wikinews]
 * [http://de.wikinews.org German Wikinews]
+* [http://it.wikinews.org Italian Wikinews]
 * [http://pl.wikinews.org Polish Wikinews]
-* [http://it.wikinews.org Italian Wikinews]
 * [[m:Wikinews|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikiversity ==
 [[Image:Wikiversity-logo-Snorky.svg|right|150px|Wikiversity logo]]
-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 15th August, 2006, with the English and German Wikiversities, as well as the multilingual co-ordination hub. Since then, these have been joined by the French, Greek, Italian and Spanish Wikiversities. 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 centred around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.
+Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities - of all learner levels. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase), on 15th August, 2006, subject to a review after six months. Work is ongoing to determine guidelines for its scope, including on research, at the multilingual co-ordination Wikiversity project (to clarify the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal scope] originally approved by the board). A finalised colour scheme for the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo logo] is also being finalised - as are the project's [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Motto_contest motto and slogan].
 * [http://www.wikiversity.org/ Multilingual portal]
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 * [http://fr.wikiversity.org/ French Wikiversity]
 * [http://de.wikiversity.org/ German Wikiversity]
+* [http://es.wikiversity.org/ Spanish Wikiversity]
 * [http://el.wikiversity.org/ Greek Wikiversity]
-* [http://it.wikiversity.org/ Italian Wikiversity]
-* [http://es.wikiversity.org/ Spanish Wikiversity]
-<!-- project without final approval removed -->
 * [http://beta.wikiversity.org/ Multilingual co-ordination Wikiversity]
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