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Wikimedia movement
Wikimania 2019
group photograph
Type
Informal organization
of individual contributors, chapters, user groups, and thematic organizations
Focus
Free,
open-content
wiki
-based Internet projects
Area served
Worldwide
Services
Authoring and editing
Wikipedia
Wikibooks
Wikidata
Wikimedia Commons
Wikinews
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Wikivoyage
, and
Wiktionary
Developing
MediaWiki
software
Website
wikimedia
.org
The
Wikimedia
movement
is a worldwide community of people who improve projects like
Wikipedia
They work together to create and manage these projects.
They use open standards and
software
to create and manage them.
It was originally made by volunteers who edit Wikipedia. The movement has grown to include other projects such as
Wikimedia Commons
and
Wikidata
. It also includes volunteers who are software engineers and developers. They help make the software called MediaWiki better. MediaWiki is what is used to run the Wikimedia projects.
Projects
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Content projects
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As of 2021
update
Wikimedia has many content projects. These include:
Wikipedia
: An online
encyclopedia
Meta-Wiki
: A place for talking about ideas about Wikimedia projects.
Wikibooks
: A collection for educational books.
Wikidata
: A shared collection of data that can be accessed by other projects.
Wikifunctions
: A collection of code.
Wikimedia Commons
: A shared collection of free images, videos, and sounds. Things there can be used by other projects.
Wikinews
: A collection of news articles.
Wikiquote
: A collection of
quotes
Wikisource
: A library of source texts and documents.
Wikispecies
: A
taxonomic
collection of
species
Wikiversity
: A collection of educational materials.
Wikivoyage
: A travel guide.
Wiktionary
: A dictionary.
Infrastructure projects
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There are other projects that help the Wikimedia movement's
infrastructure
and interface. They do this by making them work smoothly. These include:
Kiwix
: A community project that allows offline access to content projects.
MediaWiki
: The open-source platform that powers the Wikimedia projects.
Toolforge
: A community space that hosts software projects.
Volunteer Response Team
: A community group that handles email inquiries.
Wikimedia Cloud Services
: A platform for shared
cloud computing
, based on
OpenStack
Wikitech
: A group of developers with a wiki and
mailing list
References
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Koerner, Jackie; Reagle, Joseph (October 13, 2020).
Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution
MIT Press
. p.
273.
ISBN
9780262360609
The Wikimedia movement has always been a movement of writers (and curators) rather than readers.
Maher, Katherine (2020-10-15),
"22 Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together"
::Wikipedia @ 20
, PubPub,
ISBN
978-0-262-53817-6
, retrieved
2021-09-06
Kosseff, Jeff (April 15, 2019).
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
Cornell University Press
ISBN
9781501735790
Proffitt, Merrilee (April 2, 2018).
Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge
American Library Association
. p.
13.
ISBN
9780838916322
"Wikipedia"
Britannica
. Retrieved
2023-06-09
Reed, Betsy.
"Welcome to Wikidata! Now what?"
The Guardian
. Retrieved
2023-06-09
Sutherland, Joe.
Emmanuel Engelhart, Inventor of Kiwix: the Offline Wikipedia Browser
. In:
Wikimedia Blog
. 12 September 2014. Accessed on 26 November 2014.
Barrett, Daniel J.
(October 2008).
MediaWiki
. O'Reilly Media.
ISBN
978-0-596-51979-7
. Retrieved
April 23,
2010
Other Websites
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Wikimedia home page
Wikimedia movement structure
description at Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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Projects
of the
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikibooks
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wikinews
Wikifunctions
Wikipedia
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Wikivoyage
Wiktionary
Meta-Wiki
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