List of wikis
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This page contains a list of notable websites that use a wiki model. These websites will sometimes use different software in order to provide the best content management system for their users' needs, but they all share the same basic editing and viewing website model.
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Name | Focus | Notes | Entries | License |
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AboutUs.com | 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 |
Astrodatabank | Encyclopedic | Astrological wiki project, with birth details for notable people of the world. | 48,296 | |
Baidu Baike | Encyclopedic/Simplified Chinese | Simplified Chinese encyclopedia | 14,310,000 | Copyrighted |
Baike.com | Encyclopedic | Simplified Chinese encyclopedia | 15,180,000 | Copyrighted |
Ballotpedia | Informative | Interactive almanac of United States politics. | 247,094[1] | GFDL |
Base de datos | Encyclopedic/Spanish | Spanish language encyclopedia, with own wiki software. | 13,518[2] | Copyrighted/Other |
Catawiki | Catalogues | Originally in Dutch, with English version. Collectors specific for comics, coins, stamps, trading cards, board games, model cars, model trains, bank notes, books, watches, Disney memorabilia, clocks and other. | 200,000 | |
Citizendium | Encyclopedic | Requires writers to use real names rather than usernames; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public | 15,308[3] | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Connectipedia | non-profit organizations and foundations | Funded and maintained by Meyer Memorial Trust. Runs on Wagn | 22,000 | GNU Free Documentation License and a Creative Commons License |
Conservapedia | Encyclopedic | Information and articles are written from an American conservative and Christian Zionist viewpoint, aimed at correcting the liberal bias of Wikipedia. | 45,207[4] | Copyrighted (free use) |
Copyright Evidence | Copyright studies | Exists to inform public debate and policy development on copyright related issues based on categorising empirical studies. Funded and maintained by CREATe at the University of Glasgow. | 664 | |
Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) | Music | Wiki library of free typeset musical scores | 15,382[5] | Public Domain, CPDL Licence, C.C. Licences, Copyrighted (free use) |
DavisWiki | Place—Davis, California | City wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki | 15,593[6] | CC-by 3.0 |
Diplopedia | Government—Diplomacy | Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy | ||
EcuRed | Cuban perspective on global issues, in Spanish | Run by Cuba's Youth Computer Club, an affiliate of the Communist Youth Union | 19,482 | CC-BY-NC-SA.[7] |
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español | Encyclopedic/Spanish | Spanish language fork of Wikipedia | 47,281[8] | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Encyclopedia of Mathematics | Mathematics | MediaWiki using MathJax extension[9] | at least 8,000 | CC BY-SA 3.0, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License |
Encyclopedia Dramatica | Parody of Internet memes | Parody-themed wiki | 7,400 | Fair use |
Everipedia | Encyclopedic | 6,000,000[10] | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Int'l | |
Fallout Wiki | Fiction/Gaming—Fallout series | Wiki about the Fallout video game series. Ongoing merger with "Nukapedia" (Fandom) and "The Vault" (Curse/Gamepedia). | 37,000[11] | CC-BY-SA |
Family History Research Wiki | Genealogy research | Reference information and research guidance. In 11 languages. | 82,857[12] | CC BY-SA 3.0 US |
Familypedia | Genealogy | Family trees and history | at least 215,000[13] | CC BY-SA |
Fandom.com | Pop culture and media franchises | Formerly known as Wikia, it is a collection of many encyclopedias each focusing on different subjects | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0[14] |
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Fanlore | Fandom | Fandom and transformative works, with a focus on fannish history and activities. Powered by MediaWiki. | 45,000[15] | CC BY-NC 3.0 US[16] |
Foodista.com | Reference—Food and Cooking | Creative Commons structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. | CC-BY | |
La Frikipedia | Parody of encyclopedia | Spanish language parody of Wikipedia. | 11,159[17] | GNU Free Documentation License |
Fringepedia | Fiction—Fringe, related 'fringe science' topics | Powered by MediaWiki. | 6,759[citation needed] | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike |
Galaxiki | Fictional galaxy | Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy | GFDL[18] | |
Gardenology.org | Gardening | Meant as a "complete plant and garden wiki encyclopedia" | over 19,000 | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike |
GCpedia | Government | Internal Government of Canada Wiki | ||
GeoNames | Places | Geographical database that links specific names with unique features | ||
Glottopedia | Linguistics - Multilingual | A Wiki on linguistics and languages | ||
Heraldry of the World | Encyclopedic - Multilingual | A wiki dealing with non personal heraldry | 205,000[19] | |
Heroes Wiki | Fiction—Heroes | Articles about the TV show Heroes. | ||
Hitchwiki | Encyclopedic - Multilingual | a database on hitchhiking that includes an interactive world map showing the best and worst places to catch a ride. | 3,467[20] in English and about 2,000 more in 16 different languages.[21] | |
Infogalactic | Encyclopedia | Alt-right encyclopedia created by Vox Day in response to an "SJW convergence" of Wikipedia. | ||
Intellipedia | Government—Intelligence | Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community | ||
International Music Score Library Project | Music | Wiki library of public domain musical scores | 14,800[22] | GFDL |
Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb) | Firearm usage in Film, Television and Videogames | Runs on MediaWiki | 144,339[23] | |
JurisPedia | Government—Law | Multi-lingual academic encyclopedia, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified Chinese), English, French, German and Spanish | CC-NC | |
Know Your Meme | Fiction—website and video series | |||
Lostpedia | Fiction—Lost | Articles about episodes, characters, themes, etc. in the television show. | 7,248[24] | CC BY-NC-ND |
LyricWiki | Music—Lyrics | Listing of lyrics by album | 1,737,000[25] | Mostly copyrighted. CC BY-SA for minority of content. |
MeatballWiki | Communities—Online communities | Read-Only as of April 2013. | 4,900[26] | Copyrighted |
Memory Alpha | Fiction—Star Trek | Contains canon-only material | 48,710[27] | CC-NC 2.5 |
Metapedia | Encyclopedia | White nationalist online encyclopedia. | 87,521[27] (Hungarian Language version) | unknown |
MyWikiBiz | Misc—Business directory | Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | 11,475[28] | GFDL and other[29] |
Namuwiki | Encyclopedic/Korean | 602,837 | CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 KR | |
NLab | Math, physics and philosophy wiki | For research-level notes, expositions and collaborative work, including original research, especially if from the n-categorical point of view | Freely reusable if source acknowledged | |
OpenStreetMap | Places—Maps | Uses GPS, aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world | ODbL 1.0 | |
OpenWetWare | Science—Biology | Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research | CC-BY-SA | |
PCGamingWiki | Games—Video games | Attempts to provide fixes and information on all PC games | 1,367 as of April 30, 2013 | CC NC-SA 3.0 |
PlanetMath | Misc—Mathematics | Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia | ||
Pornopedia | Sexuality | Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography and sexuality[30] | 15,447[31] (German version) |
Copyrighted |
Proteopedia | Science—Chemistry | A 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules | Copyrighted | |
RationalWiki | Encyclopedic | Information and articles are written from a far-left,[32] skeptical[33] and secular point of view as a response to Conservapedia | 6,491[34] | CC-BY-SA 3.0 |
Rangjung Yeshe Wiki | Himalayan Buddhism, Tibetan Dictionary | Tibetan-English Dictionary, Buddhist Glossaries, Biographies of Buddhist Teachers, and Resources | 23,721[35] | CC-BY-NC-SA / GFDL |
riscos.info | Computers—RISC OS | Hosts C programming resources and projects | 197[36] | cc-by 2.5 |
Rosetta Code | Computers—computer code | Powered by MediaWiki | GFDL 1.2 | |
Scholarpedia | Encyclopedic | Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review | 1,619[37] | Copyrighted |
School wiki | Encyclopedic | Written by students and teachers of Kerala; subject to peer review | 16,063[38] | CC |
Scratch Wiki | Computers—Scratch (programming language) | Contains articles about Scratch, an educational programming language, and subjects related to it | 1,387 as of June 1, 2019 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Sensei's Library | Misc—Go (game) | WikiWiki Web site running on GoWiki, a custom wiki based on PHPWiki. | 18,200 | OPL |
SKYbrary | Aviation safety information | Runs on MediaWiki. | ||
SNPedia | Science—Biology | Database of research and information about single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including medical consequences for people who have DNA info about themselves | 100,000[39] | CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 |
Stadtwiki Karlsruhe | Encyclopedic | Multilingual city wiki for Karlsruhe | 21,157[40] | CC-BY-NC-SA |
Supernatural Wiki | Fiction—Supernatural | The wiki for the hit TV show Supernatural | ||
TermWiki | Words in different languages | Social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. | 1,417,806[41] | |
Travellerspoint | Places—Travel | Social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel | 2,400[42] | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
TV Tropes | Encyclopedic | Focuses on documenting tropes in various media | 163,841 | CC BY-NC-SA |
UK LGBT Archive | LGBT history, United Kingdom | Building towards a comprehensive history of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) life in the United Kingdom. Previously the LGBT History Project.[43] Runs on MediaWiki. | 4,001[44] | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Uncyclopedia | Satire—Parody | Satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody | 30,746[45] | CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 |
Veropedia | selected English Wikipedia articles | a free, advertising-supported Internet encyclopedia project | ||
Vienna History Wiki | History of the city of Vienna, Austria. | The main content of the wiki are persons, buildings, topographical objects (streets, parks, waters, districts...), organisations, events and other items (such as special German expressions used in Vienna) | 43,869[46] | CC-BY-NC-ND |
WikiAnswers | General knowledge | Compiles answers to questions posed | 11,265,000[47] | Copyrighted |
WikiArt | Art, paintings | Project aims to create high-quality, complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. | 75,000[48] | public domain artworks |
Wikibooks | General—textbooks | Wikimedia project | 115,200[49] | CC BY-SA/other |
Wikidata | Wikimedia project | CC0, CC-BY-SA | ||
WikiEducator | Open educational resources | Open educational resources which anyone may use, adapt, and share | 110,872[50] | CC BY-SA and CC-BY |
WikEM | Emergency Medicine | Rapid reference for practical point-of-care clinical knowledge with a popular linked point-of-care phone application. Intended for clinicians only and not directly for patients. | 11,709[51] | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License |
WikiFur | Furry fandom | 36,000[52] | CC-BY-SA and GDFL | |
wikiHow | How-to articles | A wiki how-to manual | 166,386[53] | CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 |
WikiIslam | Criticism of Islam (politically correct: Islamophobia) | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 | ||
Wikimapia | Places—Map | Combines Google Maps with a wiki system for polygonally defined areas; currently supports 35 languages | 13,300,000 | CC by-nc-sa[54] |
Wikimedia Commons | Misc—Electronic media | repository of free electronic media; a Wikimedia project | CC BY-SA and some other free licenses | |
Wikinews | General—News | Collaborative news service, a Wikimedia project | CC-BY | |
Wikipedia | Encyclopedic | Multilingual Wikimedia project that uses MediaWiki | 7,919,796 | CC BY-SA 3.0 for text (July 15, 2009–now). Files have various licenses. Dual license under GFDL and CC BY-SA 3.0 for text (November 1, 2008–July 15, 2009). GFDL for text (–November 1, 2008). |
Wikiquote | Reference—Quotations | Quote repository; a Wikimedia project | 143,302[55] | CC BY-SA |
WikiShia | Shi'a Islam | Online encyclopedia focusing on Shi'a, the second major denomination in Islam. It has articles in 8 languages. Persian has the most articles which is more than 3500.[56] | 882[57] in English | Unknown |
Wikishire | Places—Great Britain and Ireland | Gazetteer and interactive map of Great Britain and Ireland | 25,186 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Wikisource | Reference—Primary sources | Digital library of free content textual sources; a Wikimedia project | 4,057,263[58] | CC BY-SA |
Wikispecies | Science—Biology | Directory of species; a Wikimedia project | 248,844 | GFDL and CC BY-SA |
WikiSpooks | Trutherism | Encyclopedia written from an anti-establishment and generally libertarian-leaning perspective. | ||
Wikitravel | Places—Travel | Travel guide using Wikimedia's software, but unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation (which hosts Wikivoyage). 20 supported languages | 62,345[59] | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
WikiTree | Genealogy | Free global family tree using MediaWiki software, but unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. | 11,148,296[60] | Unknown[61] |
Wikiversity | General—Self-directed learning | Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a Wikimedia project | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
Wikivoyage | Places—Travel | Multilingual travel guide of the Wikimedia Foundation. | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
WikiWikiWeb | Computer programming, specifically design patterns | World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) | 34,997[6] | GPL |
Wiktionary | Multilingual dictionary | Online dictionary; a Wikimedia project | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
Wookieepedia | Fiction—Star Wars | Science fiction encyclopedia | 161,254[62] | CC BY-SA |
Wowpedia / WoWWiki | Gaming—Warcraft | Contains in-universe material | 168,466[63] (Wowpedia); 105,351[64] (WoWWiki) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
See also
Meta has related information at: List of largest wikis |
- History of wikis
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of multilingual MediaWiki sites
- List of wiki software
- Wiki hosting service
- Wiki software
- .wiki
References
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikis. |
- List of wikis at Curlie
- A List of Wiki Sites by Category on Lifewire
- List of largest wikis on Wikimedia Meta
- List of multilingual MediaWiki sites on MediaWiki
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