User:IM3847/Introduction to Commons

Wikimedia Movement

Wikimedia project logos

Philosophy: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Our Mission: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Our Vision: Empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license

Our Goals: By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge. More info at Movement Strategy

Wikimedia Projects

Simplified organizational chart of the movement, including roles and responsibilities

Reference

• Wikipedia is a free, collaborative encyclopedia written in 300 languages by volunteers around the world.
• Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources including textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals.
• Wikitonary is a free multilingual dictionary. The project aims to describe all words of all languages. It includes language resources such as a thesaurus, rhyme guide, and language statistics.
• Wikiquote is an online collection of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in over 75 languages. It also includes proverbs, mnemonics and slogans.

Collections

• Wikimedia Commons is the world’s largest free-to-use library of illustrations, photos, drawings, videos, and music.
• Wikisource is a library of freely-licensed source texts and historical documents, including poetry, government documents, constitutions of many countries, and general literature.
• Wikiversity is devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education.
• Wikispecies is a species database for taxonomy that covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.

Technology

• Wikidata acts as central storage of structured data for Wikimedia projects. Structuring data into a machine-readable format makes it easier to view, search, edit, curate, use and re-use files.
• Wikifunctions allows everyone to collaboratively create and maintain code functions that can be used to answer questions, such as how many days have passed between two dates, or the distance between two cities.
• MediaWiki is free and open source wiki software that anyone can use and develop. It is the platform on which Wikimedia projects are built.

Guide

• Wikivoyage aims to create the world’s largest free, complete and up-to-date worldwide travel guide.
• Wikinews provides a free content alternative to commercial news sites with articles that are fact-checked and peer reviewed.

Collaboration

• 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 Commons

Wikimedia Commons logo

a collection of 105,164,326 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

Photography Community

1. Community portal
2. Photography workshop
3. Photography terms
4. Photography critiques

Photography Competitions (Global scale)

Countries Participating in WLM

Some of the photo contests held by Wikimedia Commons Community:

1. Wiki loves Monuments (3,250,842 entries)
2. Wiki loves Folklore (120,844 entries)
3. Wiki loves Earth (895,208 entries)
4. Wiki loves Africa (115,094 entries)

Good Pictures

1. Quality Images (352,259)
2. Valued Images (47,724)
3. Featured Pictures (18,071)