List of Wikimedia projects
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This is a list of Wikimedia projects.
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[edit] Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the most popular of the Wikimedia projects, with 1,712,196 legitimate articles in the English language alone. Other Wikipedias include the German Wikipedia with over 200,000 articles, and the French Wikipedia with over 100,000 articles.
Wikipedia was officially launched on January 15, 2001 as a supplement to Nupedia, which was an encyclopedia that worked on the same ideology as Wikipedia, however with an extensive peer review system. It was essentially where the general public wrote articles that would be eventually entered on Nupedia after the said peer-review process. However, since Wikipedia became much more popular, Nupedia was taken off the internet on September 26, 2003.
For more information, see the article on Wikipedia.
[edit] Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a free-to-use dictionary that is intended to be in every language. With Wiktionary, you can define words and abbreviations. In the English language, there are at least 60,000 entries.
Wiktionary was founded on December 12, 2002 in the English language, with a French and Polish version available March of 2004.
For more information, see the article on Wiktionary.
To navigate to Wiktionary directly, you can use this link.
[edit] Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a collection of free textbooks, manuals, and other books available under the GFDL license. It began on July 10, 2003 with completely original books and books based on other public domain books.
One subproject within Wikibooks is Wikiversity, a free learning and research website.
For more information on Wikibooks, see the article on Wikibooks. Or go right there
For information on Wikiversity, see the article on Wikiversity.
[edit] Wikinews
Wikinews is an online free news source, whose purpose is to have people all around the world reporting on current events. It was opened on November 2004 as a demonstration, then moved into beta testing mode one month after. On March 13, 2005, its 1000th page was created.
For more information, see the article on Wikinews.
[edit] Wikisource
While Wikipedia is reporting on documents, Wikisource actually contains them. The goal of Wikisource is to collect primary sources. It was founded on November 24, 2003 as Project Sourceberg, later renamed to its current name.
For more information on Wikisource, see the article on Wikisource.
[edit] Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a similar project to Wikisource, launched on September 7, 2004. The wiki collects open source images, sounds, and other media files.
For more information on Wikimedia Commons, see the article on Wikimedia Commons.
[edit] Wikiquote
Wikiquote is a collection of quotes from notable people such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt or even Osama bin Laden. As of May 2005, it operates in 17 languages.
For more information, see the article on Wikiquote.
[edit] Wikijunior
Wikijunior is a print version of some Wikipedia content designed for children.
For more information, see the article on Wikijunior.
