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Wikimedia project

A Wikimedia project is a wiki-based community project run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in San Francisco, California in 2003. The Foundation operates many free software and free content projects, listed below, which are developed by volunteers of the Wikimedia movement.

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Content on most Wikimedia Foundation websites is licensed for redistribution under v3.0 of the Attribution and Share-alike Creative Commons licenses. This content is sourced from contributing volunteers and from resources with few or no copyright restrictions, such as copyleft material and works in the public domain.

The order in the table below is as listed in the Wikimedia SiteMatrix.

The only Wikimedia Foundation project which has been closed and deleted is the September 11 Memorial wiki, which was created shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Language codes

Wikimedia projects use language codes to identify language specific editions of a Wikimedia project. The codes are often used as a subdomain, e.g. for the Wikipedia editions it is a subdomain below wikipedia.org. Interlanguage links in the English Wikipedia are sorted by that code.

The codes mostly correspond to the language codes defined by ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3, and the decision of which language code to use is mostly in accordance with the IETF language tag policy.

One code is not a language code ('be-x-old') but refers to a specific orthography.

Codes that do not agree with the ISO 639 meaning or are deprecated

Several codes are used for project editions where the ISO 639 meaning is different from the content contained in the project.

This makes the codes partially "not useful".

Internal code changes

The following codes have been changed for the mark-up:

  • bat-smg -> sgs (Wikipedia)
  • fiu-vro -> vro (Wikipedia)
  • zh-classical -> lzh (Wikipedia)
  • zh-min-nan -> nan (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource)
  • zh-yue -> yue (Wikipedia)
  • be-x-old -> be-tarask (Wikipedia)
  • als -> gsw (Wikipedia, wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote)
  • roa-rup -> rup (Wikipedia, Wiktionary)

    • Redirects

  • 'dk' redirects to 'da'

    • Project specific codes

  • Wiktionary uses further codes to represent content.

    • Wikidata

    In Wikidata a property named "Wikimedia language code" exists.

    Software projects and other backstage projects

  • MediaWiki – a free software open source wiki package and its documentation
  • VisualEditor – a project to provide a "visual" or "WYSIWYG-like" online rich-text editor as a MediaWiki extension to Wikipedia
  • Phabricator – A bug tracker and project management system for MediaWiki
  • Wikitech – Wikimedia technical documentation
  • Wikimedia Labs (aka Labs) – provides cloud computing infrastructure for supporting development and operations engineering
  • Wikimedia Tool Labs (aka tools) – for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use wikis
  • Test Wikipedia – For testing software changes
  • Server status – Current status Wikimedia Foundation – Core services
  • WikiStats – Wikimedia statistics
  • Wikimedia Mailservices – Wikimedia Mailing Lists

    • The Foundation also hosts various private wikis – such as those for the Chapters Committee, Board of Trustees, OTRS, and Wikimedia Foundation Office – and various public wikis – for specialized groups such as Outreach, the regional Chapters, and thematic organizations.

    References

    Wikimedia project Wikipedia
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