User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Zoologisches Kolloquium Jena/Introduction to Wikimedia/Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia projects

 * Wikimedia Foundation's mission: "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally"


 * A whole set of collaborative platforms that channel and structure information in different ways.
 * Wikipedia: encyclopedia
 * Wiktionary: dictionary
 * Wikiquote: quotes
 * Wikisource: sources
 * Wikibooks: books
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Wikispecies: species
 * Wikinews: news
 * Wikiversity: university coursework
 * Wikidata: data
 * Wikivoyage: travel


 * Most of them are multilingual.
 * All have their own communities.
 * Lots of interaction between them.


 * Wikimedia CH
 * Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikimedia UK
 * Wikimedia India