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Last week's edition of wwwtools for Education (August 30, 2006) focuses on wiki-based tools for learning. Here are the links to multilingual sites and several articles on controversial new sites in other languages.

Wikipedia - the well-known and sometimes controversial multilingual general encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Wiktionary - a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikiquote - quotations in every language: sources, translations, and links to Wikipedia for further information.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched (Zonk / Slashdot: May 11, 2006) - Baidu, China's largest search engine, launches Baidupedia.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/11/1841224

Building Wikipedia in African LanguagesĀ (Noam Cohen / The New York Times: August 27, 2006) - creating an online encyclopedia in a language in which few native speakers have access to the Internet.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/27/business/wiki.php

Read the entire edition of wwwtools for Education at http://m.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/26594.cfm?x=0&rid=26594 .
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