What is a Wiki?

1. Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

2. Wikibooks

Wikibooks is a collection of free content textbooks and manuals that anyone can edit.

3. Wikijunior

The aim of Wikijunior is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12.

These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings.

Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together.

The books present factual information that is verifiable. Users are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content.

Wikijunior books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike License.

4. Wikistudy

Wikistudy is the home to textbooks that are directed towards specific syllabi and academic exams.

The main part of Wikistudy is for books dealing with core subjects. There is also a section for non-core subjects.

5. Wikiprofessional

Wikiprofessional is the home to textbooks that are directed towards professionals, including professionals studying for specific professional or vocational exams.

Textbooks for school exams are in Wikistudy. Textbooks for university subjects are in Wikiversity.

6. Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.

Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organisation dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service.

7. Wikiquote

Wikiquote is a free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources (where known) and translations of non-English quotes.

8. Wikisource

Wikisource is an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community.

9. Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.

10. Wikinews

Wikinews is a free-content news source anyone can write.

11. Wikispecies

Wikispecies is an open and free directory of species.

12. Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a database of over 950,00 media files to which anyone can contribute.

13. Wikitextbook

The free textbook that anyone can edit.

14. Wikimapia

You will see an aerial picture of the world.

Click on Wikimapia on the top right hand side of the screen.

Click on Search City.

Enter the name of the town or city e.g. Accrington and click on Search.

Click on the matching result that you are looking for.

Zoom in by clicking on the Zoomer meter bar on the left side of the screen.

15. Wikinomics

Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by online teams numbering in the thousands or even millions.

While some fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly.

16. Softpedia

Free downloads encyclopedia.

17. Google Knol

Google Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content. Put your name behind your content; write a knol.

Tags: E-Learning from Google, Wikis

18. Citizendium

Citizendium is a Wiki like Wikipedia but with stricter editing rules and obligatory disclosure of editor's real names.

19. Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is a Wiki like Wikipedia but the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia is written by scholars from all around the world.

20. wikiHow

wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit

wikiHow is a wiki based collaboration to build the world’s largest, highest quality how to manual.

The multilingual how to manual has free step-by-step instructions on how to do all types of things.

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