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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. |
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. |
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Revision as of 14:06, 30 June 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 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 and has reached 1.000.000 articles in over 140 languages on 20 September, 2004. While the largest Wikipedia is in English language with over 500,000 articles, there are well over 700,000 articles in 190 other languages, some quite large, and others just starting, with one or two articles. Wikipedia is so an active project that some new language editions are proposed and launched in every month. Following English Wikipedia, German, Japanese and French editions have over 100,000 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 "Communuty" and the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Communities".
Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauruses in every language. The project started in December 2002 and was devided into subdomains by language in May 2004. Wiktionary is now available in 146 languages. The largest Wiktionary is in English, followed by Polish, Gallician 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 multilingual project to build a free- and open-content repository of quotations. Quotations are taken from books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Not only those quotes but proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are consumed on Wikiquote.
Wikiquote project started in July 2003, first as English project but later multilingualized and devided into subdomains by language in August 2004. It includes currently over 10,000 pages in 26 language projects. The largest Wikiquote is in English with over 3000 pages. Following English Wikiquote, German, French and Polish editions have over 100,000 articles each.
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
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, 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.
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.
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.