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Content projects

In addition to Wikipedia, the foundation operates ten other wikis that follow the free content model with their main goal being the dissemination of knowledge. These include, by launch date:

Wikipedia logo	Name: Wikipedia Description: online encyclopedia Website:www.wikipedia.org Launched: January 15, 2001 Editions: more than 290 Wikipedias in over 250 languages	Wiktionary logo	Name: Wiktionary Description: online dictionary and thesaurus Website:www.wiktionary.org Launched: December 12, 2002 Editions: more than 270 languages and in Simple English	Wikibooks logo	Name: Wikibooks Description: collection of textbooks Website:www.wikibooks.org Launched: July 10, 2003
Wikiquote logo	Name: Wikiquote Description: collection of quotations Website:www.wikiquote.org Launched: July 10, 2003	Wikivoyage logo	Name:Wikivoyage Description: travel guide Website: www.wikivoyage.org Launched: July 2003 as Wikitravel Forked: December 10, 2006 (German language) Re-launched: January 15, 2013 by WMF in English language	Wikisource logo	Name: Wikisource Description: digital library Website: www.wikisource.org Launched: November 24, 2003
Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Name: Wikimedia Commons Description: repository of images, sounds, videos, and general media Website:www.commons.wikimedia.org Launched: September 7, 2004	Wikispecies logo	Name: Wikispecies Description: taxonomic catalogue of species Website:www.species.wikimedia.org Launched: September 14, 2004	Wikinews logo	Name: Wikinews Description: online newspaper Website: www.wikinews.org Launched: November 8, 2004
Wikiversity logo	Name: Wikiversity Description: collection of tutorials and courses, while also serving as a hosting point to coordinate research Website: www.wikiversity.org Launched: August 15, 2006	Wikidata logo	Name: Wikidata Description: knowledge base Website: www.wikidata.org Launched: October 30, 2012

Infrastructure and coordination projects

Several additional projects exist to provide infrastructure or coordination of the free knowledge projects. For instance, Outreach gives guidelines for best practices on encouraging the use of Wikimedia sites. These include:

Wikimedia Meta logo	Name: Meta-Wiki Description: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community Website:meta.wikimedia.org	Wikimedia Incubator logo	Name: Wikimedia Incubator Description: for language editions in development Website: incubator.wikimedia.org
MediaWiki logo	Name: MediaWiki Description: helps coordinate work on MediaWiki software Website:www.mediawiki.org	Wikitech logo	Name: Wikitech Alias: Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS), formerly known as "Wikimedia Labs" Description: technical projects and infrastructure Website: wikitech.wikimedia.org