- List of wikis
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This page contains a list of websites that use a wiki model.
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Name Focus Notes Articles License A Million Penguins Fiction—collaboratively-written novel 491[1] Copyrighted AboutUs.org Internet directory Initially pre-populated with information about many different websites. Uses MediaWiki software, but now largely with Ruby on Rails 17,611,146 GFDL and CC-BY-SA Appropedia English, French, German, Spanish Sustainable development, including appropriate technology merging with several other wikis 4,184[2] CC-BY-SA 3.0 Baidu Baike Encyclopedic/Chinese A Chinese encyclopedia 2,878,123[3] Copyrighted Ballotpedia Informative An interactive almanac of state politics. 120,671 [4] GFDL Biographicon Misc—Biographies of people A directory of personal profiles Unknown Catawiki Catalogues Dutch language only. Collectors specific for comics, coins, stamps, trading cards, board games, model cars, model trains, bank notes, books, watches, Disney memoriablia, clocks and other. 200,000 Citizendium Encyclopedic Requires real names; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public 15,308[5] CC-by-sa 3.0 CoalSwarm Anti-coal information clearinghouse Joint project of SourceWatch and Center for Media and Democracy 4,000[6] Congresspedia Government—United States Congress A separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch, since moved to OpenCongress CC-BY-SA 3.0 Conservapedia Encyclopedia Information and articles are written from a conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias of Wikipedia. 33,100[7] Copyrighted (free use) DavisWiki Place—Davis, California A city wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki 15,593[3] CC-by 3.0 Diplopedia Government—Diplomacy Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy EcuRed A Cuban perspective on global issues, in Spanish Run by Cuba's Youth Computer Club, an affiliate of the Communist Youth Union 19,482 Compatible with the copyleft license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[8] Ekopedia Multilingual—Encyclopedic Environmental sustainability merging with Appropedia. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español Encyclopedic/Spanish A Spanish language fork of Wikipedia 47,281[9] CC-BY-SA 3.0 Encyclopedia Dramatica Satire of Internet memes A satirical wiki 7,400[10] Fair use English Wikipedia Encyclopedic Public access, most prominent English wiki 3,803,899[11] CC-BY-SA Everything2 Personal essays A wiki-like project for essays 273,900[12] Copyrighted Foodista.com Reference—Food and Cooking A Creative Commons structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. CC-BY Galaxiki Fictional galaxy Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy GFDL[13] GCPEDIA Government Internal Government of Canada Wiki GeoNames Places A geographical database that links specific names with unique features Geo-wiki Global land cover maps The Geo-Wiki Project is to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Heroes Wiki Fiction—Heroes CC-NC-ND Hudong (互动百科) Encyclopedic Largest Chinese wiki. Social Networking features. Chinese language only 3,920,000[14] Copyrighted Intellipedia Government—Intelligence Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community International Music Score Library Project Music A wiki library of public domain musical scores 14,800[15] GFDL Javapedia Computers—Java An online encyclopedia for developing Java 790[16] Creative Commons Judgepedia Informative An interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges. 100,963 [17] GFDL Jurispedia Government—Law A multi-lingual academic encyclopedia, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish CC-NC Knol General purpose A wiki-like technology from Google 100,000[18] CC-by 3.0 Lostpedia Fiction—Lost 7,160[19] LyricWiki Music—Lyrics A listing of lyrics by album 1,147,000[20] CC-BY-SA Medpedia Encyclopedic Medical/health Requires real names; guided by medical expert input while allowing edits from the general public CC-BY-SA MeatballWiki Communities—Online communities 4,900[21] Copyrighted Memory Alpha Fiction—Star Trek Contains canon-only material 33,141[22] CC-NC 2.5 Metapedia Encyclopedia A white nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. 87,521 (Hungarian language version) unknown MyWikiBiz Misc—Business directory Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves 11,475[23] GFDL and other[24] Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Information on Nintendo franchise NotePub General purpose An online notepad that allows for both public and private content. OpenStreetMap Places—Maps Uses GPS, aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world CC-BY-SA 2.0 OpenWetWare Science—Biology Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research CC-BY-SA PlanetMath Misc—Mathematics Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia Pornopedia Sexuality Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography and sexuality[25] 15,110[26]
(German version)Public Computing in Champaign-Urbana Public computing A list of public computing resources in Champaign, Illinois and Urbana, Illinois, USA, hosted by www.eBlackCU.net, the Champaign-Urbana African American community heritage archive creative commons Quora General Knowledge A question-and-answer (Q&A) site, similar to Yahoo Answers. Revocable no-derivatives license[27] riscos.info Computers — RISC OS Hosts C programming resources and projects 197[28] cc-by 2.5 Scholarpedia Encyclopedic Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review 1,619[29] Copyrighted Sensei's Library Misc—Go (game) 18,200 OPL ShopWiki Misc—Products A shopping wiki and product comparison search engine featuring buying guides and shopping resources SKYbrary Aviation safety information SNPedia Science—Biology A database of research and information about single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including medical consequences for people who have DNA info about themselves 3,500[30] CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 SourceWatch Social—Propaganda Formerly Disinfopedia, discusses propaganda and includes organizations that seek to influence public opinion GFDL Stadtwiki Karlsruhe Encyclopedic Multilingual city wiki for Karlsruhe 21,157[31] CC-BY-NC-SA The Student Room Place—UK University and student life Offers UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses Susning.nu Encyclopedic/Swedish A Swedish language encyclopedia, which competes with Swedish Wikipedia Copyrighted SWiK Computers—Open source software TermWiki Words in different languages A social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. 1,417,806[32] Travellerspoint Places—Travel A social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel 2,400[33] CC-BY-SA 3.0 TV Tropes Encyclopedic Focuses on documenting tropes in various media CC-BY-SA 3.0 Uncyclopedia Satire—Parody A satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody 134,000[34] CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 Vikidia Encyclopedic/Spanish and French A Spanish and French language encyclopedia for children ages 8–13 GFDL/CC-BY-SA Wikia Miscellaneous Online games, movies 105,000 WikiAnswers General knowledge Compiles answers to questions posed 11,265,000[35] Copyrighted Wikibooks General—textbooks A wikimedia project 115,200[36] CC-BY-SA/other WikiCandidate Fictional presidential campaign A virtual campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. A project of Cornell University. Wikicollecting Encyclopedia A free to join community to create an up-to-date and reliable guide to the world of collecting, covering all areas from action figures to wine. 2,000 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 wikiHow General instruction A how-to manual 105,000[37] CC-by-nc-sa 2.5 WikiMapia Places—On-line map Combines Google Maps with a wiki system; currently supports 35 languages 13,300,000 Wikimedia Commons Misc—Electronic media A repository of free electronic media; a wikimedia project CC-BY-SA and other Wikinews General—News Collaborative news service, a wikimedia project CC-BY Wikipedia Encyclopedic Multilingual MediaWiki project 18,000,000 CC-BY-SA WikiPilipinas Place—The Philippines A combined non-academic encyclopedia, web portal, directory and almanac for Philippine-based knowledge Wikiquote Reference—Quotations A quote repository, a wikimedia project 90,200[38] CC-BY-SA Wikisource Reference—Primary sources Dedicated to use on Wikipedia; a wikimedia project 586,400[39] CC-BY-SA Wikispecies Science—Biology A directory of species; wikimedia project 248,844 GFDL/CC-BY-SA Wikitravel Places—Travel A travel guide using wikimedia's software, but otherwise unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. 20 supported languages 48,000[40] CC-BY-SA 1.0 Wikiversity General—Self-directed learning Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a wikimedia project CC-BY-SA 3.0 WikiWikiWeb Computer programming, specifically design patterns World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) 34,997[3] GPL Wiktionary Multilingual dictionary Whole Wheat Radio Music—Indie music An online community radio station featuring independent music Wookieepedia Fiction—Star Wars Science fiction encyclopedia 85,215[41] CC-BY-SA WoWWiki Gaming—Warcraft Contains in-universe material; migrated to Wowpedia in 2010 91,521[42] (WoWWiki); 93,515[43] (Wowpedia) CC-BY-SA 3.0 ZineWiki Social—Independent media A zine encyclopedia See also
- History of wikis
- List of biological wikis
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of wiki software
- Nupedia, a defunct, expert-based precursor to Wikipedia
- UseModWiki
- Wiki farm
- Wiki software
- List of MediaWiki wikis
References
- ^ A Million Penguins:Special:Statistics[dead link]
- ^ Appropedia:Special:Statistics
- ^ a b c "List of largest wikis". Wikimedia Foundation. 2010-03-01. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_largest_wikis. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
- ^ Ballotpedia Statistics retrieved 12/6/10, 6:29pm CT
- ^ Citizendium - Category:CZ Live lists the number of clusters. Citizendium also contains subpages: see Citizendium - Special:Statistics for details.
- ^ Cameron Scott, interview with Ted Nace, San Francisco Chronicle, March 13 2009 The Anti-Coal Movement's SF Nerve Center. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/EcuRed:T%C3%A9rminos_y_Condiciones
- ^ http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.encyclopediad*amatica.com/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.surveytome.com/e2/Stats/General.aspx
- ^ http://www.galaxiki.org/copyright/
- ^ "Wikimedia Foundation Receives Donation of Wikipedia's Chinese trademark from Hudong.com". Reuters. 2009-09-22. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS146305+22-Sep-2009+PRN20090922.
- ^ http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
- ^ "Web Topic List". wiki.java.net. http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/WebTopicList.
- ^ Judgepedia Statistics retrieved 12/6/10, 6:29pm CT
- ^ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/100000th-knol-published.html
- ^ http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
- ^ http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics?action=raw
- ^ http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?action=index
- ^ http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.mywikibiz.com/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.mywikibiz.com/Help:Copyrights
- ^ Pornopedia: Sexstar Till Kraemer (32) gründet geile Enzyklopädie Bild, February 18, 2010
- ^ http://de.pornopedia.net/wiki/Spezial:Statistik
- ^ "Quora Terms of Service". Quora. http://www.quora.com/about/tos. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://ka.stadtwiki.net/Spezial:Statistik
- ^ http://www.termwiki.com/TermWiki_Home
- ^ http://www.travellerspoint.com/wiki_stats.cfm
- ^ http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://wiki.answers.com/
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikibooks
- ^ http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote#List_of_Wikiquotes
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource/List
- ^ http://wikitravel.org/shared/Multilingual_statistics
- ^ http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.wowwiki.com/Special:Statistics
- ^ http://www.wowpedia.org/Special:Statistics
External links
- Open content encyclopedias at the Open Directory Project
- meta:Interwiki map
- meta:List of largest wikis
- WikiIndex—wikis ranked by size, popularity, usage
- A complete list of Wikia community sites
Wikis Types Components - Software
- Markup
- Interwiki links
Lists - Wikis
- Software
- Markups and parsers
Comparisons See also Categories:- Wikis
- Internet-related lists
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