User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Forschungszentrum Jülich 2013/Wikimedia

Wikimedia projects edit

Logos of Wikimedia projects, with Wikidata missing. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania, Wikibooks, Meta-Wiki, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia. Not yet included is Wikidata.

Logo of the Wikidata project, a collaboratively editable database from where information can be pulled into infoboxes and other data elements in Wikimedia projects, regardless of language.

Logo of the Wikivoyage project, a collaboratively editable travel guide.

Overview of 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.