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A WikiNode is a standard page that shows how a wiki relates to other wiki projects and communities on the Web. It is part of the WikiNodes Project,^{[dead link]} (Archive.org version) which aims to create a fabric among wikis allowing users to traverse "Wikiland" via topically related links.

This is the WikiNode for the English Wikipedia. If you are a newcomer, please visit our Welcome page and enjoy your stay!

Contents 1 Points of interest 2 Wikipedia's sister projects 3 Wikipedia languages 4 Neighbors 4.1 Encyclopedia projects 4.1.1 Encyclopedias without WikiNodes 4.1.2 WikiNodes 4.2 Other wiki communities 5 Real-time communication

[edit] Points of interest

• Main Page — Today's featured content, daily news, and many useful links.
• Featured content — Wikipedia's best work, as recognised by its community of editors.
• Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
• Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
• Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.
• Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
• Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
• TourBusStop — A quick overview of what Wikipedia is and links to other wikis on the tour.

[edit] Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:

	Commons Free media repository		Wikinews Free-content news		Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus
	Wikiquote Collection of quotations		Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals		Wikisource Free-content library
	Wikispecies Directory of species		Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities		Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination

[edit] Wikipedia languages

[edit] Neighbors

[edit] Encyclopedia projects

[edit] Encyclopedias without WikiNodes

• ArticleWorld — A collaborative project aiming to build a free encyclopedia.
• Carnalpedia — The largest sex encyclopedia on the Internet.
• Citizendium — An encyclopedia project that encourages the general public and experts to collaborate, using their real names.
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español — A Spanish language encyclopedia project.
• LoveToKnow 1911 — Wiki version of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Wikinfo — A project to create a universal open content reference resource and a platform for the meshing of encyclopedic material, original and creative work and public domain material to further education and information.
• Wikiweise — a German language encyclopedia project.
• WikiZnanine — a Russian language encyclopedia project.

[edit] WikiNodes

• Conservapedia — A wiki-based web encyclopedia project written from a U.S. nationalist, social conservative, and Conservative Christian point of view.
• Uncyclopedia — A "content-free encyclopedia" and a parody of Wikipedia.

[edit] Other wiki communities

• ClanOpedia— ClanOPedia is a wiki all about gamers sharing their knowledge with other gamers.

• WikiWikiWeb — The original wiki: its primary focus is "People, Projects, and Patterns" in software development, but it stretches out to far more than that.
• Meatball Wiki— A community of active practitioners striving to teach each other how to organize people using online tools.
• CommunityWiki — A wiki community for talk about communities both online and offline.
• Wikia — A collection of wiki communitiies.
• WikiIndex — a wiki of wikis, wiki people and wiki ideas.
• Wiki-Net — A concept for an exchange of information about wikis among neighboring wikis
• Oddwiki — A "Mother Wiki" that helps people to try out a wiki, at very low cost, and see if it "works."
• Free Culture— An international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.
• FrathWiki— A wiki for fantasy languages, worlds and cultures (avoiding 'innocent spam', i.e. people posting about personal projects, on Wikipedia).

[edit] Real-time communication

• IRC: server: freenode, channel: #wikipedia
• Collaborative editing: moon-edit, server: is-root.de, port: 32123, page: en.wikipedia