Wikiversity
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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. It is available in many languages.
Type of site | Educational, self study |
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Available in | Multilingual (17 active)[1] |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Wikimedia community |
URL | wikiversity |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | August 15, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-08-15) |
One element of Wikiversity is a set of WikiJournals which publish peer-reviewed articles in a stable, indexed, and citable format comparable with academic journals. These can be copied to Wikipedia, and are sometimes based on Wikipedia articles.
As of August 2024, there are Wikiversity sites active for 17 languages[1] comprising a total of 150,922 articles and 700 recently active editors.[4]