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It is available in many languages and has already millions of articles in the biggest, the english language version. | It is available in many languages and has already millions of articles in the biggest, the english language version. | ||
There are several sister projects hosted by the umbrella organization '' | There are several sister projects hosted by the umbrella organization, the ''Wikimedia Foundation'', for example: | ||
* [[Wikibooks]] (free text books) | * [[Wikibooks]] (free text books) | ||
* [[Wikisource]] (free-content library) | * [[Wikisource]] (free-content library) | ||
* [[Wikiversity]] (sharing of knowledge) | * [[Wikiversity]] (sharing of knowledge) | ||
* [[Commons]] (media repository) | * [[Wikimedia Wikimedia|Commons]] (media repository) | ||
* [[Wiktionary]] (dictionary and thesaurus) | * [[Wiktionary]] (dictionary and thesaurus) | ||
Revision as of 14:19, 3 December 2008
Wikipedia is a wiki project for the creation of a free-content encyclopedia. It has grown to the biggest (human made) encyclopedia of all times and is perhaps the most prominent project for the sharing of free knowledge (one of the ten most popular websites).
It is available in many languages and has already millions of articles in the biggest, the english language version.
There are several sister projects hosted by the umbrella organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, for example:
- Wikibooks (free text books)
- Wikisource (free-content library)
- Wikiversity (sharing of knowledge)
- Commons (media repository)
- Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus)