Complementary projects

There are many projects aligned with Wikimedia's goals and vision which are nevertheless not hosted or supported by the WMF.

Directly supporting projects

• Translation of Mediawiki and other interface strings: translatewiki.net

Projects following Wikimedia's goals and guidelines

• Encyclopedic information for kids: wikikids.nl and vikidia
• OpenStreetMap
• Information about genealogy and family trees: Rodovid (Rodovid)
• Information about genealogy and family trees: WeRelate

Other editable free knowledge projects

• POV discussions about all manner of social, sports, and political topics; general fan sites : Fandom
• Projects Gutenburg, Distributed Proofreaders, and LibriVox: Providing free e-texts and recordings of those texts. There are many spin-offs of Gutenburg which have regional or linguistic focuses.

Free culture and software

• Freedom Defined: a wiki attempting to define free culture and free cultural works
• Creative Commons: a set of legal definitions used for Wikimedia projects
• Free Software Directory: a wiki listing free software
• Libre Planet: a wiki connecting free software advocates
• WikiIndex: a wiki about wikis

Defunct

• Wikilivres: A compliment to Commons and Wikisource following less restrictive New Zealand copyright law
• Spanish encyclopedia fork: Enciclopedia Libre
• Internet directory: DMOZ--editing requirements are more restrictive than a standard wiki
• Parallel support of multilingual wiktionary development: Omegawiki

See also

• Complete list of Wikimedia projects