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Wikinition

Wikimania

Wikingenious

Wikinonos

This is a huge part of the explosion of content. We previously explored the world of social networks where the content primarily focuses on, and is organized around, the individual. The communities on social networks are similar focused on the individuals within that group.

Wikis are another powerful community platform, but the most clear difference to me is the focus and organization around the content and information, not the individual. But, like social networks, the wiki is primarily build by individuals.

Wikinition

The open encyclopedia that anyone can edit (unless the page is locked)

Wikipedia

Started in 2001

10M+ pages

260 languages

Maintained by 75K+ volunteers

23 employees

Funded mostly by donations / grants

English Articles

Open content dictionary

Quotations

For free textbooks and manuals

The free library that anyone can improve

Free news source that anyone can write

A database of 4,101,851 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 178,666 taxonomic entries.

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now.

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.

Use the links below to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary documentation language is English.For general questions about MediaWiki see the communication page. If you have a question about this wiki, please visit the forum.

Wikimania

Share what you know and write a knol. Google

Squidoo is a hand-built collection of nearly 900,000 pages built by people just like you.

Squidoo is about giving you a free, easy place to set up a page online. About anything you're interested in.

Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.

And Squidoo raises big money for charity every single day by donating money from the ads and links you see on every page.

If you spend just two more minutes reading this page, we'll tell you what you need to know about us.

Thanks for visiting.

Wapedia brings the contents of Wikipedia to mobile phones and other mobile devices.

Wapedia has been serving mobile versions of Wikipedia since 2004. With unrivaled rendering speed and layout tailored to 1000s of devices in 100s of countries, it has since become one of the most popular ways to access Wikipedia on the go.

Features:

* Fast searching of Wikipedia * Fast loading of long articles, even on 2G networks * Share articles effortlessly with friends * Images scaled to perfectly fit small displays * Beautiful image rendering * Access & Search over 140 local language versions of Wikipedia * Customization including font size, number of search results and much more * Even very old devices with black&white display are supported * Users can configure the size of images and other options

Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world3,799,375 definitions written since 1999

“ ... could become as important a journalistic toolas the Freedom of Information Act. „ — Time MagazineWikileaks

global defense of sources and press freedoms, circa now—Saturday 14 March, 2009

Have documents the world needs to see?

We help you safely get the truth out.

We are of assistance to peoples of all countries who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and institutions. We aim for maximum political impact...(more)

Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 178,666 taxonomic entries.

WikiTree is not just a collaborative family history website. This is a world history project that grows out from individuals and the people, places, and things that we care about.

Welcome to the community wiki for Davis, California, USA! This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis — especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!

Welcome to Oberwiki,a cooperative web site about Oberlin that anyone can edit!

LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song, from any artist, without being hammered by invasive ads.

Welcome to Fan History! A fan run wiki that anyone can edit! (Provided you follow the rules.) Fan History is dedicated to documenting the history of fandom. What parts of fandom are covered? See our fandom index below. Fan History is special, at least compared to other wikis. We have no notability requirement. Why? Because everything matters when trying to put together the full picture of what is going on in fandom. What little name authors are doing can help demonstrate larger trends that might not otherwise show up. We'd love for you to be involved with our project. No edit is too small. Still have questions? Ask them on our forums.

The Proteins wiki is intended as a community-moderated encyclopedia for proteins, with an emphasis on function and structure. Editors are invited to upload verifiable, but not necessarily published information about proteins and protein methods. Citation of published scientific literature and external links to other scientific databases are encouraged wherever possible.

The Bible Wiki is an on-going project to build a user-created free scholarly commentary to the entire text of the Christian Bible.

Welcome to the Kidpedia, the soon to be best encyclopedia on the internet written by kids, for kids! The 5th graders at Mattawan Later Elementary are busy preparing their articles and entries for you, so stop back anytime to see the progress they've made!

Find, post, and edit the facts and photos here on your favorite structures of all kinds, anywhere, from your own cottage to the latest skyscraper to your nation's capitol.

With this wiki, we are hoping to have one place where people can go to browse through vintage patterns and find

* links to sellers who have particular patterns in stock * reviews by people who have made the patterns * links to blog posts about particular patterns * a wishlist of people who want to buy or trade particular patterns * searchable 'tags' on patterns (like 'cocktail', 'wrap dress', 'peter pan collar' or whatever).

PLEASE only create articles for OUT OF PRINT patterns: roughly pre-1980.

Wikianswers is a site where you can ask questions and give answers. We're aiming to create the best answer to any question.

Yahoo answers

Ask MetaFilter

Mahalo Answers

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 52,094 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join us by writing on a topic not yet covered, or editing an article that someone else has started.

Wikevent is a project to create a worldwide, Free (as in "free speech") compendium of public events like concerts, lectures, parties, classes, sporting events, and every other sort of event which you can think of. Please jump in and start editing.

Welcome to WoWWikithe free Warcraft universe info source anyone can edit

Welcome to the Homestar Runner Wiki, the Homestar Runner knowledge base that anyone can edit.

We're currently working on 2,337 articles about our favorite Internet cartoon.

Episode guide for the jordan jesse go! podcast

This is where you'll find pages for all the TWiT shows, a FAQ with basic information about the network, pages about our community, and more. The content here is generated both by TWiT Staff and the TWiT community. Please help us make this site more useful! Anyone can modify the site - look for an edit button and dig right in!

Wookieepedia 65,353 articles since March 4, 2005The Star Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit. en · de · es · fi · fr · nl · pl · ru · moreWarning: this wiki contains spoilers.

Replacement forPrinted Encyclopedia

Replacement forText/Reference Books

Replacement forCommunity /

Organizational Manuals

Replacement forMicrosoft Office

Project Collaboration /Content Management

Wikingenious

Avenue A | Razorfish

Est. 500k+ pageviews, 50k+ edits, over 90% of employees have logged in, 7k+ pages

Copyright 2008 Lockheed Martin Corporation. All rights reserved.

mission context: market your value

How did we apply Web 2.0 in the context of mission success?

4) Context – Market Your Value a) Yesterday = White Pages, Today = Personal Space b) Provide your perspective, join the diversity of thought


mission context: create living documentation

How did we apply Web 2.0 in the context of mission success?

4) Context – Create Living Documentation a)


mission context: surface opinions, build consensus, find answers


mission context: publish organizational news

Wikinonos

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• http://www.flickr.com/photos/basel/105997652/

• http://graphjam.com/2008/11/13/song-chart-memes-getting-through-medical-school/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGujMdZIpnI

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• http://www.flickr.com/photos/northbaywanderer/121971388/

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