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Africa ({{african-cotw}})
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Football (soccer) ({{Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive/current collaboration}})
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Hong Kong ({{Wikipedia:HK wikipedians' notice board/HKCOTW/current}})
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Japan ({{Wikipedia:Japanese Collaboration of the Week/Current Japanese COTW}})
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Macintosh ({{Wikipedia:Macintosh collaboration/current}})
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Singapore ({{Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board/SGCOTF/current}})
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About Wikipedia

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Wikiquote –	A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource –	A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies –	A directory of species.
Wikiversity –	Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Wikivoyage –	A world-wide travel guide.
Wikidata –	A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.