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 August 3 (2020/08/03 03:00)

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  Schlumbergera. Flowering houseplant. A nice white selection.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 2 (2020/08/02 03:00)

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  View of the ceiling in the interior of the Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque, also known as the Pink Mosque, is a traditional mosque located in Shiraz district of Gowad-e-Arabān, Iran. The mosque was built from 1876 to 1888, by the order of Mirzā Hasan Ali (Nasir ol Molk), a Qajar ruler.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 1 (2020/08/01 03:00)

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  Female Common Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) on a Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) in Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 31 (2020/07/31 03:00)

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  A newborn baby girl yawning.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 30 (2020/07/30 03:00)

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  A Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) at the Etschlsattel (2,546 metres (8,353 ft)) near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 29 (2020/07/29 03:00)

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  Interior of the parish church (Christ the King Church) in Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 28 (2020/07/28 03:00)

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  A male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo), Crockford Stream, Hampshire

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 27 (2020/07/27 03:00)

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  Monastery of La Monjía, a fortified monastery located in Fuentetoba, municipality of Golmayo, near the Pico Frentes mountain, Province of Soria, Spain. The Romanesque church was erected by Benedictines in the 11th century but the fortification was added in the 16th century by the Counts of Castejón.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 26 (2020/07/26 03:00)

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  Sunset skyline in Umm al-Fahm, Israel. Mosque of Omar (Umm Al-Fahm) can be seen on the right, and Mosque of Abdullah ibn Masud next to it.

• Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for July 25 (2020/07/25 03:00)

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  Książ is the largest castle in the Silesia region, located in northern Wałbrzych in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

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.