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Content projects

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In addition to Wikipedia, the foundation operates ten other wikis that follow the free content model with their main goal being the dissemination of knowledge. These include, by launch date:

Wikipedia logo Name: Wikipedia
Description: online encyclopedia
Website:www.wikipedia.org
Launched: January 15, 2001
Editions: more than 290 Wikipedias in over 250 languages
Wiktionary logo Name: Wiktionary
Description: online dictionary and thesaurus
Website:www.wiktionary.org
Launched: December 12, 2002
Editions: more than 270 languages and in Simple English
Wikibooks logo Name: Wikibooks
Description: collection of textbooks
Website:www.wikibooks.org
Launched: July 10, 2003
Wikiquote logo Name: Wikiquote
Description: collection of quotations
Website:www.wikiquote.org
Launched: July 10, 2003
Wikivoyage logo Name:Wikivoyage
Description: travel guide
Website: www.wikivoyage.org
Launched: July 2003 as Wikitravel
Forked: December 10, 2006 (German language)
Re-launched: January 15, 2013 by WMF in English language
Wikisource logo Name: Wikisource
Description: digital library
Website: www.wikisource.org
Launched: November 24, 2003
Wikimedia Commons logo Name: Wikimedia Commons
Description: repository of images, sounds, videos, and general media
Website:www.commons.wikimedia.org
Launched: September 7, 2004
Wikispecies logo Name: Wikispecies
Description: taxonomic catalogue of species
Website:www.species.wikimedia.org
Launched: September 14, 2004
Wikinews logo Name: Wikinews
Description: online newspaper
Website: www.wikinews.org
Launched: November 8, 2004
Wikiversity logo Name: Wikiversity
Description: collection of tutorials and courses, while also serving as a hosting point to coordinate research
Website: www.wikiversity.org
Launched: August 15, 2006
Wikidata logo Name: Wikidata
Description: knowledge base
Website: www.wikidata.org
Launched: October 30, 2012

Infrastructure and coordination projects

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Several additional projects exist to provide infrastructure or coordination of the free knowledge projects. For instance, Outreach gives guidelines for best practices on encouraging the use of Wikimedia sites. These include:

Wikimedia Meta logo Name: Meta-Wiki
Description: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community
Website:meta.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Incubator logo Name: Wikimedia Incubator
Description: for language editions in development
Website: incubator.wikimedia.org
MediaWiki logo Name: MediaWiki
Description: helps coordinate work on MediaWiki software
Website:www.mediawiki.org
Wikitech logo Name: Wikitech
Alias: Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS), formerly known as "Wikimedia Labs"
Description: technical projects and infrastructure
Website: wikitech.wikimedia.org