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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
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.
- English Wikipedia over 480, 000 articles
- German Wikipedia over 200,000 articles
- Japanese Wikipedia over 100,000 articles
- French Wikipedia over 90,000 articles
- Full list of languages
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 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.
- English Wiktionary over 55,000 entries
- Polish Wiktionary over 28,000 entries
- Galician Wiktionary over 12,000 entries
- Dutch Wiktionary over 9,000 entries
- Full list of languages
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.
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 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.
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 MediaWiki help manual; discussions about proposed and existing projects, policies, development issues; and adminstration of all of Wikimedia's wikis.