Our projects: Difference between revisions
→Wikipedia: 600,000 articles → 800,000 articles |
|||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and has over 2,000,000 articles in around 200 languages currently. Wikipedia is such an active project that new language editions are proposed and launched every month. |
The project started in January 2001 in one language, English, and has over 2,000,000 articles in around 200 languages currently. Wikipedia is such an active project that new language editions are proposed and launched 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 |
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 800,000 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. |
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. |
||
Revision as of 14:37, 9 December 2005
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
Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Everyone is invited 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 such an active project that new language editions are proposed and launched 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 800,000 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
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.
- English Wikiquote
- German Wikiquote
- French Wikiquote
- Polish Wikiquote
- Bulgarian Wikiquote
- Portuguese Wikiquote
- Full list of languages
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.
Wikimedia Commons
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.
Wikinews
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.
Meta
"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.