Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya

Ths is a page I've been using for some time now.

Moving around from school to school, trying to keep belongings down to a minimum, doing my best not to collect any books besides the one I read while traveling and those I use while teaching, how do I keep up to date and where in the world do I get most of my information?

for those of you who read my blog you will have seen this in many of them;
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of you may have taken the time to find out what it is but most probably wouldn't have. Wikipedia has been banned here in China for many years due to it containing almost anything 'news' based BUT there are ways around the Great Fire Wall of China. Wikipedia is only one site of the many Wiki sites. I use several of them each day and I am surprised at how many people have never actually heard or used them.

I use them for my daily news updates, travelplans around China and information on almost any country I read about on Travelpod along with any other small and strange ideas I need to satisfy. They are all free and if you are a sharing type of person you can join Wiki and update them as you wish.

So to help spread the word of Wiki and help it grow I created a page of all the Wiki sites I could find.

If you are a parent show your kids as they are awesome stuff for homework.
If you are a student at any level you'll find a lot of what you need here.
If you want to know how to 'do something' you will find a step by step guide in Wiki.
If you are about to travel to a non-English speaking country you will find free phrase books complete with several lessons to help you get started and calm some nerves.
If you are like me and want an answer to almost everything that has bothered you during the day so you can sleep at night there is a Wiki site that can help.

Below is a detailed list of free Wiki sites beginning with some background information.
Simply click on the main heading and it will take you to that sites Main Menu.
I've left in all the sub headings you can browse when you get there.

Beers N Noodles toya.....shane
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
WHY WIKI AND WHAT IS A WIKI?
 
A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis. Wikis are used in businesses to provide affordable and effective intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".
 
History
 
Wiki Wiki bus at Honolulu International AirportWikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham,
"I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." 
On March 15, 2007, wiki entered the Oxford English Dictionary Online.
 
The English-language Wikipedia has the largest user base among wikis on the World Wide Web and ranks in the top 10 among all websites in terms of traffic. Other large wikis include the WikiWikiWeb, Memory Alpha, Wikitravel, World66 and Susning.nu, a Swedish-language knowledge base.
 

WELCOME TO WIKITRAVEL
 
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 18,555 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe
 
Africa Asia Australasia & Oceania Europe Middle East North America South America Central America & Caribbean Other destinations Travel topics & Phrasebooks

 
WELCOME TO WIKIPEDIA
 
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
 
General reference, Culture and the arts, Geography and places, Health and fitness,
History and events, Mathematics and logic, Natural and physical sciences, People and self,
Philosophy and thinking, Religion and belief systems, Society and social sciences
Technology and applied sciences
 
 
WELCOME TO WIKINEWS
 
The free news source you can write!

Crime and law - Culture and entertainment - Disasters and accidents - Economy and business -
Education - Environment - Health - Obituaries - Politics and conflicts - Science and technology -
Sports - Wackynews - Weather

Africa - Asia - Central America - Europe - Middle East - North America - Oceania -
South America - World
 
 
WELCOME TO WIKTIONARY 
 
A collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary.

Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia project, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

Browse: Global alphabet · All languages · Topical index · Grammatical index
Appendices · Abbreviations · Thesaurus · Rhymes · Frequency lists · Phrasebooks
 

WELCOME TO WIKIVERSITY
 
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources and learning projects for all levels, types and styles of education from pre-school and school to university, professional training and informal and lifelong learning. We invite all kinds of learners (teachers, students, and researchers) to join us in creating educational resources and collaborative learning communities.
 
Pre-school Education · Primary Education ·Secondary Education ·
Tertiary Education · Non-formal Education · Research

English · Mathematics · Modern languages · Classical languages · Physics · Art · Biology ·
Chemistry · Geography · History · Information technology · Music · Physical education · Arts · Humanities · Social sciences · Physical sciences · Life sciences · Applied sciences ·
Information sciences · Mathematics · Educational sciences · Professional and vocational studies · Interdisciplinary studies · Wikimedia studies
 
 
WELCOME TO WIKISPECIES
 
Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species.
It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.
 
Superregnum Archaea Superregnum Bacteria - Superregnum Eukarya - Regnum Protista -  
Fungi - Regnum Plantae - Regnum Animalia - Virus (classification still unclear)
 
  
WELCOME TO WIKIQUOTE
 
Welcome to Wikiquote, a free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information! The English version of Wikiquote has 15,435 pages so far with many thousands of quotations and proverbs. Visit the help page or experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit nearly any page right now; or go to the Log in page to create a user page.
 
Films - Literary works - Occupations - Proverbs - Television shows - Themes -
Electronic games - Mnemonics
 
 
WELCOME TO WIKIHOW
 
wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your edits, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 37,168 articles - written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join us by writing on a topic not yet covered, or editing an article that someone else has started.
 
Arts & Entertainment                  Health                                       Relationships                
Cars & Other Vehicles                Hobbies and Crafts                  Sports & Fitness
Computers & Electronics            Holidays & Traditions              Travel
Education & Communications     Home & Garden                       Work World
Family Life                                   Personal Care & Style              Youth
Finance, Business & Legal         Pets & Animals                          wikiHow
Food & Entertaining                    Philosophy & Religion               Other
 
 
WELCOME TO WIKIMEDIA
 
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003, since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 29,405 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!
 
Natural Sciences Department
Biology - Engineering - Health - Mathematics - Natural Sciences - Chemistry - Physics
 
Social Sciences Department
Business and Economics - Education - History - Languages - Law - Social Sciences
Computing Department
Computer Science - Computer Software - Domain-specific Languages - Information Technology - Programming Languages
 
Humanities and Arts Department
Arts - Games and Athletics - Foreign Languages - History - Humanities - Language and Literature
Special Groups
Cookbook - Good books - How-to Guides - Study Guides - Technology - Wikijunior - Wikistudy - Wikiprofessional - Wikilearn
 

WELCOME TO WIKISOURCE
 
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community

Authors:           By alphabetical order  By era
Works:             By genre           By subject        By type            Index of Audio recordings


WELCOME TO THE WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
 
A database of 2,807,639 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
 
Nature                        Animalia · Fossils · Landscapes · Marine life · Plantae · Weather
Society · Culture        
Art · Belief · Coats of Arms · Entertainment · Events · Flags · Food · History · Language · Literature · Music · Objects · People · Places · Politics · Sports
Science          
Astronomy · Biology · Chemistry · Mathematics · Medicine · Physics · Technology
Engineering
Architecture · Chemical · Civil · Electrical · Environmental · Geophysical ·
Mechanical · Process
By location Earth   Oceans · Islands · Archipelagoes · Continents · Countries · Subdivisions
Space  Asteroids · Natural satellites · Comets · Planets · Stars · Galaxies
By type Images  Animations · Diagrams · Drawings · Maps (Atlas) · Paintings · Photos · Symbols
Sound     Music · Pronunciation · Speeches · Spoken Wikipedia
Video
By author            
Architects · Composers · Painters · Photographers · Sculptors By source   Image sources
Encyclopedias · Journals · Self-published work  


WELCOME TO WIKIEVENT
  
Wikevent is a project to create a worldwide, Free (as in "free speech") compendium of public events like concerts, lectures, parties, classes, sporting events, and every other sort of event which you can think of. There are lots and lots of events sites on the internet. They all seem to have one thing in common: not enough events data. We're trying to solve that problem. The idea is that venues, artists, speakers, clubs, etc. want to spread their event information as far as possible but they only really want to enter the data once, usually that means on their own website.
  

Welcome to Meta-Wiki
 
A website devoted to the coordination of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and the MediaWiki software on which it runs. Other venues for discussing the Foundation and these projects include the Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l) and the various IRC channels.