Wikimedia movement

The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This community directly builds and administers these projects with the commitment of achieving this using open standards and software. First created around and by Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors (Wikipedians), it has since expanded to other projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and volunteer software engineers and developers contributing to the software used to power Wikimedia, MediaWiki. Wikimedia's content projects include: Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia wiki project idea discussion and coordination location Wikibooks, a repository for educational textbooks Wikidata, a shared repository of structured data, accessible by the other projects Wikifunctions, a catalog of functions and source code. It is designed to support Abstract Wikipedia, a language-independent version of Wikipedia using structured data. Wikimedia Commons, a shared repository of free-to-use media like images, videos and sounds, accessible by the other projects Wikinews, a repository for news articles Wikiquote, a collection of quotations Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species Wikiversity, a repository of educational materials Wikivoyage, a travel guide Wiktionary, a dictionary Other supporting projects in the Wikimedia movement include Kiwix, a community project for offline access to the content projects MediaWiki, the open source platform for the projects Toolforge, a community space for hosting software projects that need access to the cluster Volunteer Response Team, community handling email inquiries Wikimedia cloud services, a space for shared cloud computing, built on OpenStack Wikitech, a community of developers with a wiki and mailing list The Wikimedia community includes a number of communities devoted to single wikis. A multilingual cross-project community developed on the Meta-Wiki, where translation and governance discussions happen.