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 * Wikipedia isn't the only wiki service out there. There are several that you could use for the wiki experience, while not using wikipedia if it's still an area of concern for you. Below is just a sample of wiki sites you can use:**

=WikiProjects=



Wikiprojects are designed for users of similar interests to organize articles and make sure that the content is accurate. They also propose new content to add. Editors are publicly known. Project pages are probably more accurate than regular articles.

=Knol=



Knol is Google's version of Wikipedia. As they say, "a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic .        http://knol.google.com/k/knol/knol/Help#              

=Wiktionary=



Collaborative project for creating a free lexical database in every language, complete with meanings, etymologies, and pronunciations. http://www.wiktionary.org/ 

=Visual Wikipedia=

  Visual Wikipedia uses actual wikipedia articles, but also links users to a variety media sources.

http://visualwikipedia.com/en/

=Wikispaces=



Wikispaces is a site for educators to create free wikis for classroom collaboration. Students can create reports or their own encyclopedia entries. These can be wide open, or protected. This page is an example of wikispaces. http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

=Wikipedia for Schools= http://schools-wikipedia.org/

=Other Sites= All the sites below come in a multitude of languages such as: [|Afrikaans] (af) •  [|Bosanski] (bs) •  [|Cymraeg] (cy) •  [|Dansk] (da) •  [|Deutsch] (de) •  [|Eesti] (et) •  [|English] (en) •  [|Español] (es) •  [|Esperanto] (eo) •  [|Français] (fr) •  [|Galego] (gl) •  [|Hrvatski] (hr) •  [|Interlingue] (ie) •  [|taliano] (it)  [|Kurdî] (ku) •  [|Latine] (la) •  [|Latviešu] (lv) •  [|Nederlands] (nl) •  [|Norsk] (no) •  [|Polska] (pl) •  [|Português] (pt) •   [|Română] (ro) •  [|imple English] (simple) •  [|Slovenčina] (sk) •  [|Slovenščina] (sl) •  [|Suomi] (fi) •  [|Svenska] (sv) •  [|Tiếng Việt] (vi) •  [|Türkçe] (tr) •  [|Ελληνικά] (el) •  [|Български] (bg) •  [|Македонски] (mk) •  [|Русский] (ru) •  [|Српски][| /][|Srpski] (sr) •  [|Українська] (uk) •  [|ქართული] (ka) •  [|עברית] (he) •  [|العربية] (ar) •  [|فارسی] (fa) •  [|اردو] (ur) •  [|বাংলা] (bn) •  [|हिन्दी] (hi) •  [|ਪੰਜਾਬੀ][| /][|پنجابی] (pa) •  [|ไทย] (th) •  [|한국어] (ko) •  [|日本語] (ja) •  [|中文] (zh)
 * [|Wikibooks]: Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit
 * [|Wikiquotes]: A free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works
 * [|Wikinews]: A free news source you can write.
 * [|Wikispecies]: Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 172,299 taxonomic entries.
 * [|Wikisource]: An online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community. We now have 121,392 texts in the English language library.
 * [|Wikiversity]: Devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning
 * [|Wikijunior]: The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings.
 * [|School Friendly Wikipedia]: A free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a **twenty volume encyclopaedia**(34,000 images and 20 million words).