Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia with over 4 million articles across 200 languages. It is written collaboratively by volunteers with wiki software. The project began on January 15, 2001.
- Wiktionary
- Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. See also WiktionaryZ.
- Wikibooks
- Wikibooks is a collection of free textbooks, manuals, and other texts, with supporting book-based texts, collaboratively written on a wiki.
- Wikinews
- Wikinews is a free content news source that allows citizen journalists to independently report the news on a wide variety of current events. Wikinews content is available under Creative Commons Attribution license.
- Wikisource
- Wikisource, The Free Library, is a Wikimedia project to build a free wiki library of primary source texts, along with translations of source-texts into any language and other supporting materials.
- Commons
- The Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files that can be used on all other Wikimedia projects.
- Wikiquote
- Wikiquote is a reference of quotations from prominent people, books and proverbs.
- Wikispecies
- Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. This will cover animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life and will be developed in close connection with other wiki-projects, especially Wikipedia.
- Wikiversity
- Wikiversity, the free learning network, is the newest Wikimedia project. Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.
Donate to Wikimedia
- Fundraising
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.
Wikimedia provides computing and network resources to create and distribute many reference works including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource and the Wikimedia Commons. The content of these projects is provided to the public free of charge.
Please see the fundraising page for information on how you can help Wikimedia.
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- This Squidoo lens is not officially affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or its projects. The names and logos of the Wikimedia Foundation, and of their projects are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. This lens may include content from Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License and is subject to Wikipedia's disclaimers.
Wikipedia
on Wikipedia!
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Wikimedia
on Wikipedia
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates seve...
Wikibooks
on Wikipedia
Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content Category: b:WB - :WIW|textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
Wikinews
on Wikipedia
Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an ency...
Wikisource
on Wikipedia
Wikisource is an online library of free content textual sources, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to harbour all forms of free text, in many languages. It also provides translation efforts to this end.
Wikiversity
on Wikipedia
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project,Welcome speech, Jimbo Wales, Wikimania 2006 (audio) which supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or co...
Wikimedia Commons
on Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of images, sound and other multimedia files.Endres, Joe, "Wiki websites wealth of information". International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM. Champaign, Illinois: May 2006. Vol. 17, Iss. 5; pg. 312, 1 pgs. Source type:...
Wikiquote
on Wikipedia
Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, fi...
Wiktionary
on Wikipedia
Wiktionary (a portmanteau of the words wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. Unlike standard dictionaries, it is written collaboratively by volunteers, dubbed "Wiktionarians", using wiki software, allowing arti...
Wikispecies
on Wikipedia
Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species and is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales, chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, stated that edito...
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