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News and announcements

22nd March 2008. Join the discussion and activity at Wikiversity Vision 2009.
2nd February 2008. An experimental Moodle installation has been set up on the sandbox server.
18th January 2008. Wikiversity has a new maintenance hub to help with administration.

Welcome

Welcome to Wikiversity, a wiki website where you are invited to explore your learning goals and participate in active learning projects. Everyone is welcome to help create and develop learning resources. If you are not experienced with wikis then you can get started by taking a look at this tutorial. You can also click here to learn about wiki websites. To learn how Wikiversity relates to other Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia and Wikibooks, checkout Wikiversity as a Wikimedia sister project. You can get live feedback from the chatroom #wikiversity-en. A guided tour is also available.

Wikiversity is a community for the creation of learning activities and development of free learning materials. Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research. Wikiversity strives to be an open and vibrant community where you can explore and learn about your personal interests. Wikiversity hosts and develops free learning materials for all age groups. Please participate and help build collaborative learning projects and communities; at Wikiversity we learn by doing, we learn by editing.

Today's featured project

Flowers

Bloom clock project - The Bloom Clock is a research and learning project about flowering plants. The research component is aimed at creating a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere. While the learning project aspect is aimed at helping people identify plants using visual keys.

Yesterday's featured project

The Horsehead Nebula

Observational astronomy - Astronomers can gain an understanding of objects in the universe by studying them with a telescope. Observational astronomy is the process of collecting and analyzing data to learn about these objects. In this learning project a computer program will be used to view and study images taken with a telescope to learn basic concepts in astronomy. Part of the Astronomy Project.

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Wikiversity's sister projects

Wikiversity is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wikipedia Free-content encyclopedia	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus	Wikiquote Collection of quotations
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Wikisource Free-content library	Commons Shared media repository	Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination