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To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles. |
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Today's article for improvementEvery week, Wikipedians choose a new article to improve. Feel free to jump in and edit, or join the project to find a new article for a later week. 
Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation") is a modern concept based on a term first used in classical antiquity by the Roman orator, Cicero: "cultura animi". The term "culture" first began to take its current usage by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries (having had earlier antecedents elsewhere), it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the 19th century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. In the mid-19th century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. For the German nonpositivist sociologist Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history"... Help improve this article... |
| The links below lead to the main community pages of the projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. |
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| Meta-Wiki – | Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary – | A collaborative multilingual dictionary. |
| Wikinews – | News stories written by readers. |
| Wikibooks – | A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. |
| 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. |
| Commons – | Repository for free images and other media files. |
