Wikimedia Commons: The last few days have shown me that I’m really out of touch with everything that’s available over at Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Commons […] is a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Files uploaded to this repository can be used as local files by other projects on the Wikimedia servers, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikinews.
I had no idea about this, Wikiprojects and Wikiportals or Wikireaders. There needs to be a “For Dummies” book or something.
Wikipedia:WikiReader: Another little-known construct of Wikipedia. WikiReaders are collections of articles from Wikipedia on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form. Here's a script to do the PDF conversion.
WikiProject: Here's the interesting concept of the Wikiproject over at Wikipedia. A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific family of information within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing. They seem like…
I hear there's a Wikidummies in the works...