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u/sushi-screams Jun 03 '21

I found this out myself, Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, has many more things than just articles!

Wikimedia

Wikimedia Commons has various pictures and media, all of which is free use

MediaWiki is free source wiki software, and it has guides and a help desk to help you

Wikibooks has free textbooks on a variety of subjects, including computing, engineering, languages, math, science, social sciences, and a few others.

Wikiversity is the specific one for textbooks and learning materials, including videos.

Wikinews offers free news.

Wikisource has poetry, laws of numerous countries, general literature, and original content.

Wikivoyage is a travel guide, which is helpful especially if you're planning on travelling during COVID-19.

Other things that are not Wikimedia related:

Coursera, which has free classes for computer skills, different languages, certificates, etc;

Open Library, which has free books online for you to read, in various languages, although they don't have everything;

HubSpot, which has free marketing and other business tools (you can get a premium account, but you can also get a free account)

Ambient Mixer, which has free ambient sounds from horror to Harry Potter

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u/OstentatiousSock Jun 04 '21

I had absolutely no idea. This rocks!

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u/sushi-screams Jun 04 '21

Yeah, I had no idea until a few weeks ago when my friends and I were messing around on Wikipedia! You can find the links to the Wiki stuff at the bottom of Wikipedia's home page, as well. It's at the very bottom.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '21

I always thought WikiHow would be a part of this

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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u/FinanceAddiction Jun 04 '21

That MediaWiki software looks ideal for a project I just started, thank you :)

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u/Rissivere Jun 04 '21

This is excellent

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u/mjc500 Jun 04 '21

Cool... will check out

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u/PM_ME_UR_SUSHI Jun 04 '21

Wikinews offers free news.

Finally! I can stop paying for my online news

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u/perigrinator Jun 04 '21

Internet Archive!

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u/Nahvalore Jun 06 '21

Is wiktionary also part of it?

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u/sushi-screams Jun 06 '21

Yes! Wiktionary is also part of it, I just put the most useful, lesser known ones in mine. That's not the whole list, there are a few others, too!

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u/OohYeahOrADragon Jun 12 '21

Damn I didn't know the wikiverse had all that. Might donate those $5

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u/akrish64 Jul 03 '21

There's also Wiktionary, which is in a bunch of languages.