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All major projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by its users using the MediaWiki software. The content is free under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning that it 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.

Wikipedia

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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 about 140 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English language, followed by German, Japanese and French.

Wiktionary

File:Wiktionary-en.png

Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauruses in every language. The project started in December 2002 and is now available in 146 languages. The largest Wiktionary is in English, followed by Polish, Dutch, Swedish and French.

Wikiquote

File:Wiki-quote.png

Wikiquote is a multilingual project to build a free- and open-content repository of quotations. The project started in 2004 and currently includes over 2000 pages in 15 languages. The largest Wikiquote in English with over 1500 pages, followed by German, French and Polish.

Wikibooks

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.

A Wikibooks portal named Wikiversity is now planned.

Wikisource

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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.

Wikisource

Wikispecies

File:Wiki-species.png

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

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. Still in the planning stage, the project will, in future, allow images to be reused across projects.

- Wikimedia Commons

Related projects

MediaWiki

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

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-All major projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by its users. For this purpose these projects are using a wiki software called [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]. The content is free under the [[:en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License|GNU Free Documentation License]], meaning that it 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]].
+All major projects of the [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] are collaboratively developed by its users using the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. The content is free under the [[:en:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]], meaning that it 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]].
 == Wikipedia ==
 [[Image:Wikipedia-en.png|right]]
-Wikipedia is a multilingual 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 about 140 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English language, followed by German, Japanese and French.
+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 about 140 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English language, followed by German, Japanese and French.
-*http://en.wikipedia.org - English Wikipedia
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]
-*http://de.wikipedia.org - German Wikipedia
+*[http://de.wikipedia.org German Wikipedia]
-*http://ja.wikipedia.org - Japanese Wikipedia
+*[http://ja.wikipedia.org Japanese Wikipedia]
-*http://fr.wikipedia.org - French Wikipedia
+*[http://fr.wikipedia.org French Wikipedia]
 *[[m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wiktionary ==
 [[Image:Wiktionary-en.png|right]]
-Wiktionary is a multilingual project to create open content dictionaries and thesauruses in every language. The project started in December 2002 and now in 146 languages. The largest Wiktionary is in English language, followed by Polish, Dutch, Swedish and French.
+Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauruses in every language. The project started in December 2002 and is now available in 146 languages. The largest Wiktionary is in English, followed by Polish, Dutch, Swedish and French.
-*http://en.wiktionary.org - English Wiktionary
+*[http://en.wiktionary.org English Wiktionary]
-*http://pl.wiktionary.org - Polish Wiktionary
+*[http://pl.wiktionary.org Polish Wiktionary]
-*http://nl.wiktionary.org - Dutch Wiktionary
+*[http://nl.wiktionary.org Dutch Wiktionary]
-*http://sv.wiktionary.org - Swedish Wiktionary
+*[http://sv.wiktionary.org Swedish Wiktionary]
-*http://fr.wiktionary.org - French Wiktionary
+*[http://fr.wiktionary.org French Wiktionary]
-*[[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Multilingual_coordination|Full list of languages]]
+*[[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Multilingual coordination|Full list of languages]]
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 == Wikiquote ==
 [[Image:Wiki-quote.png|right]]
-Wikiquote is a multilingual project to build free- and open-content quotations. The project started in 2004 in English and there are currently about 2,300 articles in 15 languages. The largest Wikiquote in English with over 1500 articles, followed by German, French and Polish.
+Wikiquote is a multilingual project to build a free- and open-content repository of quotations. The project started in 2004 and currently includes over 2000 pages in 15 languages. The largest Wikiquote in English with over 1500 pages, followed by German, French and Polish.
-*http://en.wikiquote.org - English Wikiquote
+*[http://en.wikiquote.org English Wikiquote]
-*http://de.wikiquote.org - German Wikiquote
+*[http://de.wikiquote.org German Wikiquote]
-*http://fr.wikiquote.org - French Wikiquote
+*[http://fr.wikiquote.org French Wikiquote]
-*http://pl.Wikiquote.org - Polish Wikiquote
+*[http://pl.Wikiquote.org Polish Wikiquote]
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 == Wikibooks ==
 [[Image:Wiki-textbook.png|right]]
-Wikibooks is a multilingual project to build a collection of free and open content e-book resources aimed specifically toward students, such as textbooks, mauals and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in highschools and universities. It started in July, 2003 and has currently about 5,000 modules in 250 books in six languages. The largest Wikibooks is in English language.
+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.
 A Wikibooks portal named Wikiversity is now planned.
-*http://en.wikibooks.org/ - English Wikibooks
+*[http://en.wikibooks.org/ English Wikibooks]
-*http://de.wikibooks.org/ - German Wikibooks
+*[http://de.wikibooks.org/ German Wikibooks]
-*http://fr.wikibooks.org/ - French Wikibooks
+*[http://fr.wikibooks.org/ French Wikibooks]
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 == Wikisource ==
 [[Image:Wiki-sources.png|right]]
-Wikisource is a multilingual project to build a collection of primary texts, distributed as free and open content. It serves other sister projects of Wikimedia as a useful archive of classics, laws, and other free texts.
+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.
-It started in November, 2003.
-Wikisource.org contents are distributed without languages subdomains.
-*Wikisource - http://wikisource.org/
+*[http://wikisource.org/ Wikisource]
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 == Wikispecies==
 [[Image:Wiki-species.png|right]]
-Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based, data species directory. Wikispecies will provide a central, more extensive database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.
+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.
+*[http://wikispecies.org/ Wikispecies]
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 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. Still in the planning stage, the project will, in future, allow images to be reused across projects.
-*http://commons.wikimedia.org - Wikimedia Commons
+*[http://commons.wikimedia.org - Wikimedia Commons]
 == Related projects ==
 === MediaWiki ===
-[[MediaWiki]] is [[:en:wiki|wiki]] software released under the GPL which is used by Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects and [[w:en:Wikipedia:Sites_using_MediaWiki|other sites using 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]].
-During the period 21-29 May 2004, all Wikimedia sites have been upgraded to the '''MediaWiki 1.3''' software.
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-=== Meta-Wiki ===
+=== Meta ===
 [[Image:Meta-wiki.png|right]]
-Meta-Wiki, also called shortly meta, is a Mediawiki project portal wiki. Where talking about all of projects, new project, policies, development issues, adminstrative all of 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/ - Meta Wikimedia
+*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia's Meta wiki]
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