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How Wikipedia Works
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How Wikipedia Works

by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates
September 2008
Beginner
536 pages
15h 41m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 16. Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects

In addition to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation runs several other projects to produce free-content reference material. Commonly known within Wikimedia as sister projects, sibling projects, or simply the projects, the nine current Wikimedia projects are Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, and the Wikimedia Commons. Each project handles a different type of material, from textbooks to images, and each has a separate group of volunteers working on a dedicated wiki, usually with many language versions. The Wikimedia Foundation also coordinates the MediaWiki software that all of the projects run on. Often thought of as the tenth sister ...

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