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WikiHow
wikiHow is a wiki-based online publication of how-to guides, founded by Jack Herrick and launched in 2005 on Wikipedia's first anniversary, written by volunteers, paid editors, and experts.
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks: international nonprofit whistleblowing site founded 2006, publishes classified documents from anonymous sources; known for Manning-provided 2010 Afghan and Iraq War Logs and 250,000 US embassy cables, and founder Julian Assange's Espionage Act extradition case.
Wikimania
Wikimania is the annual global conference of the Wikimedia movement, first held in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2005, bringing together volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia and related projects.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons (Commons) is the Wikimedia Foundation's free, multilingual media repository of over 100 million public-domain and Creative Commons photos, audio, and video, reusable with attribution and used across all Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is an American donor-funded nonprofit founded by Jimmy Wales in 2003 that hosts Wikipedia and its sister projects, funded mainly by small reader donations.
Wikinews
Wikinews (Wikinoticias in Spanish) was the Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer citizen-journalism news project, launched November 2004, with 31 language editions, peer-reviewed publication, and CC BY-SA licensing; the Board closed all editions in 2026.
Wikinger
Wikinger (Vikings) is a 2007 Michael Kiesling board game from Hans im Glück for 2-4 players: buy island tiles and Vikings from a rotating 0-11 price wheel, settle islands, repel ships, and score the most points in six rounds.
Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm
Wikinger is a 350 MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea northeast of Rügen, developed and operated by Spain's Iberdrola and inaugurated in 2018.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based encyclopedia written and edited by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, launched on January 15, 2001 as the offshoot of the expert-written Nupedia.
Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a persistently contentious Wikipedia topic area marked by edit wars, Arbitration Committee bans of pro-Israel and pro-Palestine editors in 2025, ADL-documented coordination campaigns, and Jimmy Wales's 2025 criticism of the Gaza genocide article.
Wikipedia as pretraining data
Wikipedia as pretraining data refers to the encyclopedia's raw text, structured datasets, and API feeds used for training foundation language models. Major AI partnerships were announced in 2026.
Wikipedia community
Wikipedia community: the global body of volunteer editors (Wikipedians) who write and enforce policies on Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation has no editorial role; governance is consensus-based peer governance under a Universal Code of Conduct.
Wikipedia logo
The Wikipedia logo, also called the puzzle-globe logo, is a globe of jigsaw pieces, each bearing a character from a different writing system, chosen in 2003 from community submissions.
Wikipedia mascots
Wikipedia mascots include the community-created Wikipe-tan and Wikipede and the Foundation’s 25th-anniversary Baby Globe, alongside the encyclopedia’s puzzle-globe emblem.
Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon
The Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon, also called the Philosophy Game, is a pattern where first hyperlinks in English Wikipedia articles loop at the "Philosophy" article, popularized by a 2011 xkcd webcomic.
Wikiquote
Wikiquote, launched by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003, is a free editable collection of notable quotations whose pages cover people, literary works, films, and proverbs, with each quote traced to its source.
Wikishuffle
Wikishuffle: British comedy podcast (2015-2020) by Jack Stewart, Chris Wallace, and Phil Sharman, built on Wikipedia's random article button; 104 Tuesday episodes, Best Comedy at the 2015 UK Podcasters Awards, ended 27 May 2020, surviving on Acast under the slug notthisagain.
Wikisource
Wikisource, the Free Library, is the Wikimedia Foundation's sister project to Wikipedia: a volunteer-run, multilingual digital library of public-domain and freely licensed source texts, proofread page by page against scans using the Proofread Page extension since 2008.
WikiSQL
WikiSQL is a 2017 Salesforce text-to-SQL benchmark of 80,654 crowd-annotated question-SQL pairs over 24,241 Wikipedia tables, introduced with Seq2SQL, restricted to simple single-table queries, later criticized as saturated and superseded by Spider and BIRD.
WikiText-103
WikiText-103 is a word-level language modeling dataset of over 103 million tokens from verified Good and Featured English Wikipedia articles, introduced in 2016 by Salesforce Research.
Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage is a free, multilingual online travel guide that anyone can edit, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation as a sister project of Wikipedia since 2013.
Wikramawardhana
Wikramawardhana, also recorded as Hyang Wisesa, was king of Majapahit from 1389 until his death in 1429, winning the Paregreg civil war against Bhre Wirabhumi that tradition marks as the start of Majapahit's decline.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary, also known as the English Wiktionary, is a collaborative free-content dictionary run by the Wikimedia Foundation, editable by anyone, whose English edition includes etymologies, pronunciations, and translations.
Wiktor Nowak
Wiktor Nowak (born 2004, Drobin) is a Polish midfielder for SK Slavia Praha and Poland; ex-Znicz Pruszków, Górnik Zabrze, Wisła Płock loan; €2.4M 2026 transfer. Not the volleyball setter born 1999.
Wiktoria Gajosz
Wiktoria Gajosz (born 2006, Chełm) is a Polish sprinter for AZS UMCS Lublin; 2026 European Championships 4x100m relay bronze, World U20 4x400m silver, PBs 11.28 (100m) and 22.91 (200m).
Wil (film)
Wil (Will) is a 2023 Belgian historical drama by Tim Mielants, adapted from Jeroen Olyslaegers' 2016 novel, about two auxiliary policemen in Nazi-occupied Antwerp in 1942 torn between collaboration and resistance; released via Kinepolis and Netflix, Ensor winner.
Wil Myers
Wil Myers (William Bradford Myers, born 1990) is a former MLB outfielder/first baseman; 2013 AL Rookie of the Year with the Rays, 2016 All-Star and Padres franchise-record contract signer, later Reds, retired 2023.
Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton (Richard William Wheaton III, born 1972) is an American actor and writer known for Gordie in Stand by Me, Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: TNG, his blog, Tabletop, audiobook narration, and mental health advocacy.
WIL2
WIL2 (WI-L2, CVCL_6544) is an EBV-transformed human B lymphoblastoid cell line established in 1968 from the spleen of a 5-year-old male with hereditary spherocytosis; parent of WIL2-NS, WIL2-S, and TK6.
Wilaya (ولاية)
Wilaya (ولاية) is an Arabic term for a first-order administrative division, province or governorate, headed by an appointed wali. Used in Algeria (69 wilayas since 2026), Mauritania, Oman, and historically in Islamic caliphates and the Ottoman vilayet system.