Media

Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. ¹⁾

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language.

Wikiquote

Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote.

Wikibooks

Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities.

Wikisource

Wikisource is a multilingual project to archive a collection of free and open content texts.

Wikispecies

Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. It covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.

Wikinews

The Wikinews project was launched with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.

Wikivoyage

Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 27 (2020/01/27 02:00)

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  Castle and Collegiate Church of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 26 (2020/01/26 02:00)

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  Juvenile Ugandan defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. National Resistance Movement Liberation Day in Uganda is celebrated on 26 January.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 25 (2020/01/25 02:00)

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  View of the Salar de Uyuni, the surrounding mountains and giant cactuses (Echinopsis atacamensis) in Incahuasi island, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, southwest Bolivia, not far from the crest of the Andes. This salt flat is, with a surface of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi), the world's largest.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 24 (2020/01/24 02:00)

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  Great Wall of China at Badaling.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 23 (2020/01/23 02:00)

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  Veritas RS at the Nürburgring (exit Brünnchen), during the 2007 Oldtimer Festival of the DAMC 05.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 22 (2020/01/22 02:00)

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  Early morning balloon flight over the West Bank in Luxor in Egypt.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 21 (2020/01/21 02:00)

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  Comme des Garçons clothing on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between exhibit in August 2017.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 20 (2020/01/20 02:00)

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  An Orthodox priest with Ethiopian crosses at Abba Pentalewon Monastery in Axum, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 19 (2020/01/19 02:00)

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  Remains of the castle of Montuenga, a fortification of the 11th century located in Montuenga de Soria, Province of Soria, Spain.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 18 (2020/01/18 02:00)

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  Pyrite (Fool's Gold)

Wikidata

Wikidata aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. The data available in Wikidata is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 License to allow third-party users to freely reuse the data available, unlike other Wikimedia projects.

MediaWiki

The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects.

Meta-Wiki

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.

Wikimedia Incubator

The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki used for developing new wikis.

Wikimedia Labs

Wikimedia Labs ²⁾ is a project aimed to help volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development, and to make it easier for system administrators and developers to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki.