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 April 1 (2020/04/01 03:00)

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  Medal for the 225th anniversary of the porcelain factory in Meissen, 1935. The AV depicts the portrait of the inventor of the stoneware which is named after him, Johann Friedrich Böttger. RV: the crossed swords logo for Meissen and the dates of the jubilee. Brown so-called "Böttgersteinzeug"

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 31 (2020/03/31 03:00)

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  Telescope on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 30 (2020/03/30 03:00)

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  Large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae) resting late in the afternoon on a daffodil (Narcissus) ‘Pimpernel’, in Oxfordshire

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 29 (2020/03/29 02:00)

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  Valle Arcoiris ("Rainbow Valley"), Rio Grande near San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 28 (2020/03/28 02:00)

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  A window in the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital in New York City, USA, closed since 1930. The French artist JR created murals on hospital grounds from photographs of patients taken in the early 1900s.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 27 (2020/03/27 02:00)

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  The east side of the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin-Mitte, facing the river Spree, during the blue hour. On the left the Reichstag building can be seen. The Paul Löbe building was built according to plans of architect Stephan Braunfels.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 26 (2020/03/26 02:00)

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  Sheathed woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis) on a beech tree in the grove area of Bamberg

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 25 (2020/03/25 02:00)

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  Scanned image of thin section from Siilinjärvi apatite ore in cross polarised transmitted light. Actual sector size about 37 × 20 mm.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 24 (2020/03/24 02:00)

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  Exemplar of Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), Kruger National Park, South Africa.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for March 23 (2020/03/23 02:00)

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  Sunrise over Lake Wanaka from Boundary Creek, Otago, New Zealand

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.