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Rich Content

Summary

The Open Knowledge ^[1] movement encompasses much more than Wikipedia articles. Most of the world doesn’t know what “Wikimedia” is - they only know Wikipedia, and associate it with long-form, informative, encyclopedic text content. But we already offer much more than that. Commons^[2], although flawed, is an established source for freely licensed multimedia files. Wikivoyage,^[3] although largely unknown, is full of rich and useful crowdsourced travel content. Wikisource^[4] has a small but dedicated community of transcribers, translators, and archivists who combine imagery and text into useful digital reproductions of old publications.

Our existing projects already offer rich opportunities to expand beyond encyclopedic content and give our users useful and fulfilling experiences, so it won’t be a stretch for us to continue to explore all types of media and formats to accomplish our goals.