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Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project [2] [3] that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from Wikipedia in that it offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia.
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project [1] [2] that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. As of December 2024, Wikiversity learning modules have been created in 17 editions, with 17 currently active and 0 closed. [3] This is a table of detailed statistics of Wikiversities.
Both dictionary entries at Wiktionary and encyclopedia articles at Wikipedia may start out as stubs, but they are works in progress, to be expanded. Wikipedia articles should begin with a good definition, but they should provide other types of information about that topic as well. The full articles that Wikipedia's stubs grow into are very ...
Content copied from Wikiversity to Wikipedia needs to conform to the context in Wikipedia, as well as criteria including WP:Notability and WP:Reliable sources.Also, as content is by default licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike license, an attribution should be made, at least by mentioning the source article in the edit summary.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [20] (referred to as Wikipedia Day) as a single English-language edition with the domain name www.wikipedia.com, [W 6] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [22] The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Many publicly available wikis, such as Wikiversity, allow for self-education, and wikis are sometimes used in classrooms for collaborative projects. Some teachers have found, however, that learners prefer to add their own content rather than rewrite others' work, perhaps because of an institutionally cultivated norm of individual ownership.
A city wiki or local wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. [50] [51] [52] The term city wiki is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. Such a wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places.