This week, I explored two sister projects for wikimedia. That is wikiquote and wikispecies.
Wikiquote is a database of quotes from notable persons in various forms of media including print and movies. Wikimedia does understand the importance of setting up a scalable tool so that the masses and keep adding content, but I found that using their subcategories features a bit confusing. It's still growing so it's not full, per se. Individual pages are interesting with quotes of the day, a brief summary of the media in question and dialogue from the media.
Wikispecies talked a bit over my head with its scientific terms but it did find its search structure easier to use that wikiquote. It also had a species of the week feature (like the quote of the week feature) with links to the different kinds of specifics. LOTS of great information and resources lies in this site.
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I agree that some of the sister projects definitely need more content to really feel like they are complete. I have never looked for something on Wikipedia and not found it, but I could see where that might happen on some of the sister sites.
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