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Let's briefly talk right now about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a portmento of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick and encyclopedia. This means those are two words that are fused together to provide a new meaning. Wikipedia is a multi-lingual encyclopedia which has over eight million articles and 75,000 contributors. It's web-based, with a graphical user interface and provides free contents. It is a direct descendant of Newpedia, which is a now defunct encyclopedia and was officially started on January 15, 2001, founded by Jimmy Wells, who donated the server space and it is now a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. Let's talk about some of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. First, I'm going to show you the page of the Wikimedia Foundation and I'm just going to click over to my browser here, which is Safari on the Apple and this is the page for the Wikimedia Foundation. http: backslashbackslash www.wikimedia.org and you'll see here there's lots of different links to different things they've got going on here and we're to talk briefly about some of those. The first we're going to talk about is Wiktionary. You'll notice some of these word combinations can be kind of hard to pronounce. I'm just going to go back to my browser here and show you Wiktionary is a wiki-based, open-content dictionary. So let's check out the English site. And notice the interface here. It'll look very familiar, especially when we go more in-depth on Wikipedia in a later chapter. And you'll notice here, the word of the day for today, which happens to be December 11 is verbatim. So a very cool use of wiki technology as a wiki dictionary. Our next project to cover is Wikibooks. Wikibooks is an open-content textbook collection, so let's take a look here and see what we've got going on. Oh, here's a book about chess. So let's click there and see what we've go going on here. We've got content about playing the game, notating the game, tactics, so on and so forth. So this is an open-source, open-content textbook that anybody can add to, really bringing in the spirit of wiki technology. Next we have Wikiquotes. And this is at Wikiquote.org, a free, online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works. So here we have a quote of the day from somebody that I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce that name. But you can go daily and see different quote of the day, you can look up different quotes from different people who have notable and interesting quotes. A great resource, especially if you're doing research. Finally, we're going to talk about Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a database of freely-usable media files to which anyone can contribute, such as the big compendium of media files, a compilation of everything that can be captured in media. So let's check this out. Let's take a look at the nature section. Lots of different pictures and different, uh, WAV files, sounds, anything imaginable that can be captured in media can be added to Wikimedia Commons as long as you don't violate any copyrights, so on and so forth. So very cool, very different ways that you can utilize what wiki technology and Wikimedia Foundation is really at the forefront of utilizing wiki technology to do some amazing things. And I encourage you to check them out, see what they've got going on and if you'd like to contribute, I encourage you to do so.