All the Wiki Worlds Of Free Information, Education And Entertainment At Your Finger Tips

Unless you have been living in a bush for the past few years, you may not have heard of any, or the many of the "Wiki" world's of information on the Internet which has been written and contributed to, by its millions of readers. Wikipedia is the most popular and huge online encyclopedia.

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge". — J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia.

What does wiki mean?

The word "wiki" is software that allows anyone to create, edit, and organize the contents of a website. The most popular being Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is made up of the words wiki, from "wicked" which means very bad, but is also slang for "good" and "pedia" from from Encyclo"pedia".

All these sites can be edited by you! Users can improve the accuracy of the AskWiki engine via the categorization feedback mechanism. Members of the Wiki Community are encouraged to expand upon correct answer articles and correct the incorrect or uncertain ones, re-categorizing the articles as they are updated. You can join and start writing on any topic not yet covered, or edit an article that someone else has started to help build collaborative learning projects and communities.

Edit an article and help make Wiki the best information source on the Internet! Inappropriate content will be removed quite quickly and repeat offenders will be blocked from editing in future. You can't cause problems with the Wiki software as anything can be fixed or improved later and all All articles need to be wikified From Wikipedia before appearing.. Help make it better!

List of Wiki worlds below.

Wikipedia.org is the most popular wiki. It is an online encyclopedia which reached 10 million articles march 2007. It is constantly improving and making changes every second. It is packed with information which you will find very useful about a world of subjects. You can add new content to Wikipedia as long as you provide references. Facts that are unreferenced are routinely removed from the encyclopedia.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger-Launched January 15, 2001.

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package which was initialy written for Wikipedia but is now used by several other non profit projects of Wikimedia Foundation including many other wikis. You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary reference language is English. For general questions dealing with the software see the recommended possibilities of communication and maybe our support desk. If you have any problems with anything wiki, please visit the wiki Forum.

WikiPatrol is an Urban Dead Wiki member group which is dedicated to patrol the wiki. All wiki members who share in the goal of keeping the wiki junk free. Wiki Patrol fixes problems and help deal with problematic users, and helping other wiki users to understand the policies and guidelines that are in place. wiki patrol Fixes problems. Inform users of their mistakes and help keep illegal software, pornography and content off and to keep wiki running smoothly.

It was created on June 3rd, 2006.

wikiupload. is a free file hosting & sharing site.You can upload any files up to 5GB which will increase as time goes by. You can share it on forums or with friends if your file is public they also place the file in the right public category based on your tags and description. Help to create the largest selection of open source content Just like wikipedia. It has videos, images, MP3 and other many other files.

WikiUpload was created by Jitendra Agrawal from Los Angeles,

Wiktionary is a collaborative project which produces a free content multilingual dictionary. Designed as a companion to Wikipedia. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. It also has etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations..All the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. See how you can participate in the development of Wiktionary.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia community -Launched December 12, 2002.

Wikiquote is a free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources "where known", translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information! The English version of Wikiquote has over 15,000 pages so far with many thousands of quotations and proverbs. Browse: Films, literary works, occupations, Proverbs, television shows, themes, electronic games, mnemonics with simple navigation menus which is a breeze to navigate arround.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community. Launched 2003.

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks. Wikibooks has grown to include over 28,000 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you! Topics range from Natural Sciences. Social Sciences. Department Business and Economics. Computing Department Computer Science. Humanities and Arts Department Arts including special Groups called Wikijunior, Wikistudy, Wikiprofessional and Wikilearn.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community. Launched July 2003.

AskWiki was developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation, is a preliminary integration of a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions using information from Wikipedia articles. The engine is still in early stage development and has been designed to foster community involvement to help improve the search service and interface over the development period. The goal of pairing AskWiki's semantic search technology with the efforts of the AskWiki Community, is to in time create a unique information access engine that can provide the answer to any question. AskWiki, developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation.

AskMeNow Inc. is an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search and mobile advertising. The Irvine, California based company officially launched in November of 2005.

Wikisource is an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community. Feel free to ask any question at the Scriptorium at their community discussion page. You can also read about your local community news.The Free Library, is committed to developing a collection of free content works..You can search categories by Authors, by alphabetical order * By era, works, genre, by subject-type and an Index of Audio recordings.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation. Started November 24, 2003.

Wikinews is a free content news source. Each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article. The neutral point of view policy implemented in Wikinews distinguishes it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews. In contrast to most projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikinews allows original work under the form of original reporting and interviews. The English Wikinews is the only Wikimedia site that grants press passes to reporters endorsed by the local community. Topics include Crime and law. Culture and entertainment. Disasters and accidents. Economy and business. Education. Environment. Health. Obituaries. Politics and conflicts. Science and technology. Sports and general wackynews.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation. Started January 2003.

Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. They aim to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species, including animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, and protista). It is aimed at scientists, rather than at the general public. It started in August 2004, with biologists across the world invited to contribute to the project. Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species which covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Benedikt Mandl and Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community-Launched August 2004.

Wikicommons is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. It provides a common resource repository to all the various Wikimedia sister projects in any language with a huge range of topics. The files uploaded to the Commons repository can be used like locally uploaded files on all other projects on the Wikimedia servers in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either in the public domain or released under free licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License.

Owner Wikimedia Foundation-Created by Wikimedia Community-Launched September 7, 2004.

wikimapia map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information to any location on earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, and was launched on May 24, 2006 with the aim of "describing the whole planet Earth". It is one of the top 1000 websites visited and has around 7 million places marked. While registration is not required to edit or add to Wikimapia, over 150,000 users from around the world are currently registered.

Created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev-Launched May 24, 2006.

wikiHow is a wiki-based community with a database of how to guides. The site started as an extension of the already existing eHow website, and has evolved to host over 30,000 how to articles. wikiHow's mission is to build the world's largest how to manual and help it grow. In September 2007, wikiHow had 8 million unique readers. It has the world's largest, highest quality how to manual with free resource to help millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains over 40,000 articles which like all wikis ,are written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.

Owner wikiHow-Created by Jack Herrick and Josh Hannah.

Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive corporate and government documents, while taking measures to preserve the anonymity and traceability of its contributors. Within one year of its December 2006 launch, its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents. Running on modified MediaWiki software, Wikileaks is hosted by PRQ, an internet service provider in Sweden.

This site and its project were secret until their existence was disclosed in a January 2007 article after Wikileaks invited the editor of Secrecy News to serve on their advisory board

WikiAnswers is a site that uses a wiki engine to improve questions and answers. It is the second-largest Q&A site after Yahoo Answers. Answers has stated that it intends to bring the two sites much closer together in order to provide various types of answers to its visitors. both encyclopedic and "community-based". It is a website that presents reference content in over four million entries. The site was launched in January 2005. The website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation "NASDAQ-ANSW", previously GuruNet, which is an Israel-based Internet reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem,

Founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999.

wikiuniversity is a community for the creation of learning activities and development of free learning materials. Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research. Wikiversity is an open and vibrant community where you can explore and learn about your personal interests. Wikiversity hosts and develops free learning materials for all age groups. Please participate and help build collaborative learning projects and communities; at Wikiversity we learn by doing, we learn by editing...Topics range from, Humanities. Physical Sciences. Life Sciences. Practical Arts. Sciences. Mathematics . Computer Science Engineering. Technology Interdisciplinary Studies. Social Sciences . Education . Media Professions. Learning Projects. Learning Materials Research.

WikiEducator is an online community project which works in collaboration with the Free Culture Movement, towards a free version of the education curriculum. it Focuses on building a capacity in the use of Mediawiki and related free software technologies for mass-collaboration in the authoring of free content. Developing free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings. Adopting new technologies that will widen access, improve quality and reduce the cost associated with providing education, primarily through the use of free content. Its development is supported by the Commonwealth of Learning. You can join join them to develop free and open educational content for the world to see.

Development is supported by the Commonwealth of Learning, with some financial support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the leading proponents of the open educational resources OER movement, and programmatic support from UNESCO.

WikiPaltz is a very new wiki database of information about the Town and Village of New Paltz and the State University of New York in New Paltz. As usual it's free to use by all the students, residents, faculty, staff, administrators, media outlets, elected officials, and whoever else may have a use for the information provided.

Started 2005. The state-funded and appointed Administration of SUNY New.

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up to date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. They have over 18,000 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. They cover all corners of the globe including Africa, Asia, Australasia, Oceania, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Central America & Caribbean as well as many other destinations, travel topics & Phrasebooks information.

The project was begun in July of 2003 by the two founders, Evan and Maj. It was inspired by Wikipedia,

MormonWiki is sponsored by the More Good Foundation. This wiki serves as a tool through which positive LDS content can be developed in a collaborative manner. They welcome positive and balanced content about Mormonism and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). You can help make MormonWiki better, and in the process help create more positive LDS content on the Web.

MormonWiki.com is sponsored by the More Good Foundation which offers positive, informational articles about The Church of Jesus.

wikispaces is a wiki site where you can create simple web pages for groups, friends, and families and work great for classrooms, work groups, families, sports teams, book and fan clubs and lot's more.. This wiki cost! Public wikis are free and private and ad free wikis price's range from $5 to $20 per month.

Run by Tangient which is Dominick Bellizzi, James Byers and Adam Frey. David Gavurin.

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