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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Everyone is invided to join this collaborative editing process. Even user registration isn't required, though the Wikipedia community encourages editors to register themselves.

The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and has over 2,000,000 articles in around 200 languages currently. Wikipedia is so an active project that some new language editions are proposed and launched in every month.

Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 articles in over 140 languages on 20 September, 2004. While the largest Wikipedia is in English language with over 600,000 articles, there are well over 1,000,000 articles in 200 other languages, some quite large, and others just starting, with one or two articles. Following English Wikipedia, German, French and Japanese editions have over 125,000 articles each.

Since the start of the project, over 35,000 registered users had made at least five edits, though it is unknown how many of users registered on several projects at once. The total number of created accounts on the whole Wikipedia exceeds 100,000.

Some Wikipedia have a plan of snapshop release. German Wikipedia was released as CD and DVD in collaboration with Directmedia Publishing. French Wikipedia has a similar plan in collaboration with Mandriva (former Mandrake Soft).

Wikipedia is also known with its community. In 2004 Wikipedia won the Webby Award for "Community" and the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Communities".

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and is now available in over 50 languages with almost 200,000 entries. The largest language edition is English, followed by Polish, Bulgarian and Dutch.

Recently Wiktionary has proceeded collaboration in Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons, to provide Wiktionary and other projects with pronounciation examples.

Wikiquote

File:Wikiquote.png

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 July 2005, it includes nearly 18,000 pages in over 30 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 4,000 pages. The German, French, Polish, Bulgaria and Portuguese editions have each over 1,000 articles.

Wikiquote portal

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. The project started in July 2003 and has over 13,000 modules of multiple books, estimated over 300, across more than 35 languages.

Wikisource

Wikisource is a multilingual project to build a collection of primary source texts, distributed as free and open content. It serves Wikimedia's other projects as a useful archive of classics, laws, and other free texts. It started in November, 2003. Sources in all languages are gathered on one site except Hebrew sources.

Wikispecies

Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based, species database. Wikispecies will provide a central, more extensive database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users.

Wikispecies

Wikimedia Commons

File:CommonsLogo.png

Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004, to provide a central repository for free video, images, music, and spoken texts, to be used by all Wikimedia projects. The project allows its resources, images and sound files to be reused across other Wikimedia projects. As of June 2005, it has over 150 000 multimedia files.

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

Wikimedia Commons

Wikinews

Wikinews logo

The Wikinews project is currently in the beta stage. It was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of February 2004, there are seven languages Wikinews. 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 wrtten 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.

Related projects

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is wiki engine released under the GPL. The 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.

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 [[Image:Wikipedia.png|right]]
-Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. The project started in January 2001 and has reached 1.000.000 articles in 140 languages. As of March 2005, roughly half a million registered user accounts have been created since the start of the project, and over 30,000 of these accounts have contributed actively. The largest Wikipedia is currently the English language with close to 500,000 articles, followed by German, Japanese and French.
+Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Everyone is invided to join this collaborative editing process. Even user registration isn't required, though the Wikipedia community encourages editors to register themselves.
+The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and has over 2,000,000 articles in around 200 languages currently. Wikipedia is so an active project that some new language editions are proposed and launched in every month.
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia] over 480, 000 articles
-*[http://de.wikipedia.org German Wikipedia] over 200,000 articles
+Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 articles in over 140 languages on 20 September, 2004. While the largest Wikipedia is in English language with over 600,000 articles, there are well over 1,000,000 articles in 200 other languages, some quite large, and others just starting, with one or two articles.  Following English Wikipedia, German, French and Japanese editions have over 125,000 articles each.
-*[http://ja.wikipedia.org Japanese Wikipedia] over 100,000 articles
-*[http://fr.wikipedia.org French Wikipedia] over 90,000 articles
+Since the start of the project, over 35,000 registered users had made at least five edits, though it is unknown how many of users registered on several projects at once. The total number of created accounts on the whole Wikipedia exceeds 100,000.
+Some Wikipedia have a plan of snapshop release. German Wikipedia was released as CD and DVD in collaboration with Directmedia Publishing. French Wikipedia has a similar plan in collaboration with Mandriva (former ''Mandrake Soft'').
+Wikipedia is also known with its community. In 2004 Wikipedia won the Webby Award for "Community" and the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Communities".
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]
+*[http://de.wikipedia.org German Wikipedia]
+*[http://fr.wikipedia.org French Wikipedia]
+*[http://ja.wikipedia.org Japanese Wikipedia]
 *[[m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wiktionary ==
-[[Image:Wiktionary-logo-en.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Wiktionary.png|right]]
-Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and is now available in 146 languages. As of February 2005, since its start roughly over 7,000 registered user accounts were created and over 7,000 word and phrase entries were submitted in total. The largest Wiktionary is in English, followed by Polish, Dutch, Swedish and French.
+Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language. The project started in December 2002, and is now available in over 50 languages with almost 200,000 entries. The largest language edition is English, followed by Polish, Bulgarian and Dutch.
+Recently Wiktionary has proceeded collaboration in Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons, to provide Wiktionary and other projects with pronounciation examples.
-*[http://en.wiktionary.org English Wiktionary] over 55,000 entries
+*[http://en.wiktionary.org English Wiktionary]
-*[http://pl.wiktionary.org Polish Wiktionary] over 28,000 entries
+*[http://pl.wiktionary.org Polish Wiktionary]
-*[http://gl.wiktionary.org Galician Wiktionary] over 12,000 entries
+*[http://bg.wiktionary.org Bulgarian Wiktionary]
-*[http://nl.wiktionary.org Dutch Wiktionary] over 9,000 entries
+*[http://nl.wiktionary.org Dutch Wiktionary]
 *[[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Multilingual coordination|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikiquote ==
-[[Image:Wikiquote-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Wikiquote.png|right]]
+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.
-Wikiquote is a multilingual project to build a free- and open-content repository of quotations. The project started in 2004 and currently includes close to 9500 pages in 22 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English, with over 2500 pages, followed by German, French and Polish.
+The project started in July 2003; As of July 2005, it includes nearly 18,000 pages in over 30 languages. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 4,000 pages. The German, French, Polish, Bulgaria and Portuguese editions have each over 1,000 articles.
+*[http://www.wikiquote.org Wikiquote portal]
 *[http://en.wikiquote.org English Wikiquote]
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 *[http://fr.wikiquote.org French Wikiquote]
 *[http://pl.Wikiquote.org Polish Wikiquote]
+*[http://bg.Wikiquote.org Bulgarian Wikiquote]
+*[http://pt.Wikiquote.org Portuguese Wikiquote]
 *[[m:Wikiquote|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikibooks ==
-[[Image:Wikibooks-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Wikibooks.png|right]]
-Wikibooks is a multilingual project to build a collection of free and open content e-book resources aimed specifically toward students. The project includes textbooks, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high-schools and universities. The project began in July, 2003 and has approximately 5,000 modules in 250 books in six languages. The largest Wikibooks is in English language.
+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. The project started in July 2003 and has over 13,000 modules of multiple books, estimated over 300, across more than 35 languages.
-A Wikibooks portal named Wikiversity is now planned.
 *[http://en.wikibooks.org/ English Wikibooks]
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 == Wikisource ==
-[[Image:Wikisource-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Wikisource-logo.jpg|129px|right]]
 Wikisource is a multilingual project to build a collection of primary source texts, distributed as free and open content. It serves Wikimedia's other projects as a useful archive of classics, laws, and other free texts. It started in November, 2003. Sources in all languages are gathered on one site except Hebrew sources.
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 == Wikispecies==
-[[Image:Wikispecies-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Wikispecies-logo-en.png|right]]
 Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based, species database. Wikispecies will provide a central, more extensive database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users.
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 == Wikimedia Commons==
-[[Image:Commons-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:CommonsLogo.png|right]]
-Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004, with the goal of providing a central repository for free images, music and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, to be used by all Wikimedia projects. The project allows its resources, images and sound files to be reused across other Wikimedia projects.
+Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004, to provide a central repository for free video, images, music, and spoken texts, to be used by all Wikimedia projects. The project allows its resources, images and sound files to be reused across other Wikimedia projects. As of June 2005, it has over 150 000 multimedia files.
+Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards in May 2005.
 *[http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]
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 == Wikinews ==
-[[Image:Wikinews-logo.png|100px|right|Wikinews logo]]
+[[Image:Wikinews-logo.png|200px|right|Wikinews logo]]
-The Wikinews project is currently in the beta stage. It was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of February 2004, there are seven languages of Wikinews. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Articles range from original reports to summaries of news from external sources. All of them must be wrtten from a neutral point of view. Currently Wikinews has two aims: to provide a free content alternative to commercial news sites and to ensure that its articles are thoroughly fact-checked and reviewed.
+The Wikinews project is currently in the beta stage. It was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. As of February 2004, there are seven languages Wikinews. 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 wrtten 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.
 *[http://en.wikinews.org English Wikinews]
 *[http://de.wikinews.org German Wikinews]
-*[http://sw.wikinews.org Swedish Wikinews]
+*[http://sv.wikinews.org Swedish Wikinews]
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 === MediaWiki ===
 [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] is [[:en:wiki|wiki]] engine released under the [[w:en:GPL|GPL]]. The software is used by all Wikimedia projects and [[w:en:Wikipedia:Sites_using_MediaWiki|many other sites]].
+In 2005 MediaWiki won the prize at [http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2 les Trophées du Libre] in the category ''special php prize''.
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 === Meta ===
-[[Image:wikimedia-logo.png|100px|right]]
+[[Image:Metawiki.png|right]]
-"Meta" is a central wiki for all of Wikimedia's projects to come together. The portal includes the MediaWiki help manual; discussions about proposed and existing projects, policies, development issues; and adminstration of all of Wikimedia's wikis.
+"Meta" is a central wiki for all of Wikimedia's projects to come together. The portal includes the help guide to MediaWiki, as well as discussions about proposed and existing projects, policies, development issues, and adminstration of all of Wikimedia's wikis.
 *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia's Meta wiki]