Wikimedia Projects – Wikimedia Foundation

Skip to content Wikimedia Projects The Wikimedia Foundation supports hundreds of thousands of people around the world in creating the largest free knowledge projects in history. The work of volunteers helps millions of people around the globe discover information, contribute knowledge, and share it with others no matter their bandwidth. Reference Wikipedia All the world’s knowledge Wikipedia is a free, collaborative encyclopedia written in over 300 languages by volunteers around the world. Wikibooks E-book textbooks and annotated texts Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources including textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. Wiktionary A dictionary for over 170 languages Wiktionary is a free multilingual dictionary. The project aims to describe all words of all languages. It includes language resources such as a thesaurus, rhyme guide, and language statistics. Wikiquote Find quotes across your favorite books, movies, authors and more Wikiquote is an online collection of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in over 75 languages. It also includes proverbs, mnemonics and slogans. Collections Wikimedia Commons 114 million images, photographs, videos and music files and counting Wikimedia Commons is the world’s largest free-to-use library of illustrations, photos, drawings, videos, and music. Wikisource The free library Wikisource is a library of freely-licensed source texts and historical documents, including poetry, government documents, constitutions of many countries, and general literature. Wikiversity Access learning resources, projects and research at any level of study Wikiversity is devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education. Wikispecies The free species directory Wikispecies is a species database for taxonomy that covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. Technology Wikidata The database of structured information collaboratively edited Wikidata acts as central storage of structured data for Wikimedia projects. Structuring data into a machine-readable format makes it easier to view, search, edit, curate, use and re-use files. Wikifunctions The library of code functions anyone can edit Wikifunctions allows everyone to collaboratively create and maintain code functions that can be used to answer questions, such as how many days have passed between two dates, or the distance between two cities. MediaWiki The software platform that makes Wikipedia possible MediaWiki is free and open source wiki software that anyone can use and develop. It is the platform on which Wikimedia projects are built. Guides Wikivoyage The ultimate travel guide Wikivoyage aims to create the world’s largest free, complete and up-to-date worldwide travel guide. Wikinews The free news source Wikinews provides a free content alternative to commercial news sites with articles that are fact-checked and peer reviewed. Collaboration Meta-Wiki Project coordination software tool for global collaboration Meta-Wiki is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events. Subscribe for news Get the latest updates about the Wikimedia Foundation directly to your inbox. For more details, see our Privacy statement. Help us unlock the world’s knowledge. As a nonprofit, Wikipedia and our related free knowledge projects are powered primarily through donations. Donate now Photo credits Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards ICFJ Wikipedia 25 - Birthday blog header Wikimedia Foundation CC BY-SA 4.0 Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński JPC Photography and Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon File provided by Wikimedia Commons Jens Mohr CC BY-SA 3.0