Flashcards: Wiki communities

TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and expands descriptions and examples on various conventions and devices (tropes) found within creative works.

Open-Site, the Open Encyclopedia Project was a free internet encyclopedia operated by Michael J.

(For Wikipedia's guidance on linking to sister projects, see Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects § How to link.)(To go directly to the Wikipedia sister project, see www.wiktionary.org) Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages.

OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart.

Familypedia is a free-to-use public wiki on family history and genealogy.

Baidu Baike (Chinese: 百度百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; literally: "Baidu Encyclopedia") is a Chinese-language collaborative web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.

Uncyclopedia is a satirical website that parodies Wikipedia.

Conservapedia /kənˈsɜːrvəˈpidiə/ is an English-language wiki encyclopedia project written from an American conservative, Young Earth creationist, and Christian fundamentalist point of view.

Lurkmore or Lurkomorye (Russian: Луркоморье, a portmanteau of Lukomorye and the English online slang "lurk moar") is an informal Russian-language MediaWiki-powered online encyclopedia focusing on Internet subcultures, folklore, and memes.

The WikiWikiWeb is the first ever wiki, or user-editable website.

LyricWikia is an online wiki-based lyrics database and encyclopedia.

Baike.com (Chinese: 互动百科; pinyin: Hùdòng Bǎikē), formerly Hudong and Hoodong, is a for-profit social network in China, including the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia/news website.

Encyclopedia Dramatica (often abbreviated ED and æ) is a satirical website, consisting of a wiki that uses MediaWiki software, and a forum based on XenForo forums software.

Wikitravel is a web-based collaborative travel guide project, based upon the wiki model, launched by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins in 2003.

Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software.

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities.

Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors.

Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information on all the films, as well as Clone Wars, The Clone Wars and its introductory film, Rebels, the Star Wars expanded universe, and any upcoming Star Wars material.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.

WikiAfrica focuses on getting external Africa-based, cultural organisations, museums and archives, as well as bloggers and journalists, to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia.

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.

Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content.

Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia.

Wikimapia is a privately owned open-content collaborative mapping project, that utilizes an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.

Veropedia was a free, advertising-supported Internet encyclopedia project launched in late October 2007.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle.

Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files.

The VroniPlag Wiki is a wiki started 28 March 2011 at Wikia that examines and documents the extent of plagiarism in German doctoral theses.

Ballotpedia is a nonpartisan online political encyclopedia.

TermWiki.com (pronounced /ˈtɜːrmˌwɪki/) is a major social learning network that allows users to learn, discover, share, and store personal terms and glossaries in 1487 domains in 97 languages.

WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki is wiki-based website and point-of-care phone application for emergency medicine clinicians.

Base de datos is a collaborative online encyclopedia written in the Spanish language launched on 8 December 2002, currently has more than 14,500 articles on all kinds of topics.

The Personal Telco Project (or PTP) is a wireless community network project in Portland, Oregon.

Team Liquid (TL) is a multiregional professional eSports organization based in the Netherlands.

Wikimedia Israel (In Hebrew ויקימדיה ישראל) is an Israeli nonprofit organization working in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation to promote knowledge and education in Israel through the collection and dissemination of free content and the initiation of projects to facilitate access to databases.

Wiki Loves Earth (WLE) is an annual international photographic competition held during the month of May, organised worldwide by the Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe.

The PCGamingWiki is a collaboratively edited, free Internet encyclopedia focused on collecting game behavior data (such as save locations and startup parameters) to optimizing gameplay and fixing issues found in PC video games.

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation (aka Wikimedia Bangladesh or WikimediaBD) is a registered charity established to support volunteers in Bangladesh who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.

La Frikipedia was a Spanish-language parody of Wikipedia.

Foodista.com is an online recipe, cooking, and food news source.

Ganfyd is a medical wiki community and online medical wiki encyclopedia, created in November 2005 by a group of doctors working in the United Kingdom.

MeatballWiki was a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.

Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006, that offers for free GPS trails and waypoints that members (free registration) can upload and share.

This is a list of medical wikis, collaboratively-editable websites that focus on medical information.

Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

riscos.info is a web site for users of the RISC OS operating system, run by Peter Naulls and John Tytgat.

WikiCandidate was a wiki designed to collaboratively create a virtual political campaign for a fictional U.

java.net is a Java technology related community website.

Wikishire is an on-line gazetteer of Great Britain, Ireland and associated territories.

OutHistory is a website about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and heterosexual history, and, more generally, gender and sexual history.

Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

WikiCity Guides was an on-line publisher providing local content on places, events, and people which could be of interest to those associated with any of the 22,000 U.

WikiBaseball (Chinese: 臺灣棒球維基館) is a Taiwanese baseball website.

Wikimedia UK (WMUK) is a registered charity established to support volunteers in the United Kingdom who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.

WikiLosRios is a Spanish-language wiki-based Web encyclopedia project about Los Ríos Region in Chile.

Wikimedia Polska (WMPL; Polish: Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska) is a Polish public benefit organization established to support volunteers in Poland who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.

German BioImaging is a network of German microscopists and imaging specialists, which is currently supported by DFG.

Heroes Wiki is a wiki-powered reference site for NBC's science fiction drama Heroes.

RationalWiki (RW) is a wiki whose stated aims are to critique pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, explore authoritarianism and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media.

The Student Room Group (often referred to as TSR) is a UK based privately held student community company.

Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is an annual international photographic competition held during the month of September, organised worldwide by Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe.

wikiHow is an online wiki-style community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides.

Hitchwiki is "a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers".

JurisPedia /ˈdʒʊərᵻsˌpiːdiə/ is a wiki encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.

Travellerspoint is a social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers.

Crnogorska Enciklopedija (English: Montenegrin Encyclopedia; formerly Montenegrowiki) was an internet encyclopedia project written in Montenegrin, which existed from 2006 to 2008.

PlanetPhysics is a virtual community with several Internet sites supported by a non-profit organization registered in the USA in an open science, open data, peer-to-peer review mode that aims to help make physics, and related mathematics, knowledge much more accessible, as well as to further develop physical, logical, computational and mathematical physics concepts.