List of wikis
This article contains a list of notable wikis, which are websites that use wiki software, allowing users to collaboratively edit content and view old versions of the content. These websites use several different wiki software packages.
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| Name | Focus | Notes | Entries | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| ArchWiki | Computers — Linux | Wiki about Arch Linux and various software for it. | 3,704 | GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later |
| Appropedia | Poverty reduction, international development | Creative Commons license | ||
| 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 | Simplified Chinese encyclopedia | 15,180,000 | Copyrighted |
| Brilliant | Math/Science | Written at the reading and comprehension level of an advanced high school student. Wiki pages are reviewed before they are put up. | ||
| Base de datos | Encyclopedic/Spanish | Spanish language encyclopedia, with own wiki software. | 13,518 | 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 | 17,258 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Conservapedia | Encyclopedic | Information and articles are written from a Conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias of Wikipedia. | 51,493 | 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. | 2,980 | |
| Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) | Music | Wiki library of free typeset musical scores | 40,888 | 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 | 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. |
| Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español | Encyclopedic/Spanish | Spanish language fork of Wikipedia | 47,281 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Encyclopedia of Mathematics | Mathematics | MediaWiki using MathJax extension | 16,211 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica | Parody of Internet memes | Parody-themed wiki | 14,972 | Fair use |
| Everipedia | Encyclopedic | 6,000,000 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| Fallout Wiki | Fiction/Gaming – Fallout series | Wiki about the Fallout video game series. Ongoing merger with "Nukapedia" (Fandom) and "The Vault" (Curse/Gamepedia). | 44,000 | CC BY-SA |
| Family History Research Wiki | Genealogy research | Reference information and research guidance. In 11 languages. | 82,857 | CC BY-SA 3.0 US |
| Fandom.com | Pop culture and media franchises | Wiki hosting service, formerly known as Wikia. It is a collection of many encyclopedias, each focusing on different subjects. | at least 55,000,000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Fanlore | Fandom | Fandom and transformative works, with a focus on fannish history and activities. Powered by MediaWiki. | 60,753 | CC BY-NC 3.0 US |
| 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 | GFDL |
| Fringepedia | Fiction – Fringe, related 'fringe science' topics | Powered by MediaWiki. | 6,759 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Gardenology.org | Gardening | Meant as a "complete plant and garden wiki encyclopedia" | 22,005 | CC BY-SA |
| GCpedia | Government — Canada | Internal Government of Canada Wiki | ||
| Gentoo Wiki | Computers — Linux | Wiki about Gentoo Linux and various software for it. | 8,085 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| GeoNames | Places | Geographical database that links specific names with unique features | ||
| GitLab wikis | Mainly computer software program documentation | |||
| Glottopedia | Linguistics – Multilingual | A Wiki on linguistics and languages | 3,223 | |
| Heraldry of the World | Encyclopedic – Multilingual | A wiki dealing with non personal heraldry | 139,558 | |
| 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 in English and about 2,000 more in 16 different languages. | |
| 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 | GFDL |
| Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb) | Firearm usage in Film, Television and Videogames | Runs on MediaWiki | 27,723 | |
| JurisPedia | Government – Law | Multi-lingual academic encyclopedia, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified Chinese), English, French, German and Spanish | CC BY-NC | |
| Know Your Meme | Fiction – website and video series | 28,105 | ||
| Lostpedia | Fiction – Lost | Articles about episodes, characters, themes, etc. in the television show. | 7,456 | CC BY-NC-ND |
| LyricWiki | Music – Lyrics | Listing of lyrics by album | 1,737,000 | Mostly copyrighted. CC BY-SA for minority of content. |
| MeatballWiki | Communities – Online communities | 5,213 | Copyrighted | |
| Memory Alpha | Fiction – Star Trek | Contains canon-only material | 52,447 | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Metapedia | Encyclopedia | White nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. | 87,521 (Hungarian Language version) | Unknown |
| Microsoft Docs | Microsoft Technical Documentation | Microsoft Learn | ||
| MyWikiBiz | Misc – Business directory | Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | 9,093 | GFDL and other |
| Namuwiki | Encyclopedic/Korean | 602,837 | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 KR | |
| Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA) | Games – Nintendo | Multi-language network of independently hosted wikis for various video game franchises, primarily those created by Nintendo. | 280,000+ across 36 wikis | Various: "Member wikis of NIWA are not bound by a single license." |
| nLab | Mathematics, physics, and philosophy wiki | For research-level notes, expositions and collaborative work, including original research, especially from the n-categorical point of view. | 18,098 | No formal license. Freely reusable if source acknowledged. |
| IAEA Nuclear Wiki | Nuclear physics | https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/connect/Pages/Home.aspx | ||
| 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 – PC games | Aims to provide fixes and information on all PC games | 45,508 | CC NC-SA 3.0 |
| PlanetMath | Misc – Mathematics | Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia | ||
| Proteopedia | Science – Chemistry | A 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules | 191,915 | Copyrighted |
| PsychonautWiki | Psychonautics | Information for different psychoactive substances and psychonaut experiences. | 1,662 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International |
| RationalWiki | Encyclopedic | Information and articles are written from a liberal, skeptical and secular point of view as a response to Conservapedia | 7,434 | 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 | CC BY-NC-SA / GFDL |
| Rosetta Code | Computers — computer code | Powered by MediaWiki | 2,045 | GFDL 1.2 |
| Scholarpedia | Encyclopedic | Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review | 1,812 | Copyrighted |
| School wiki | Encyclopedic | Written by students and teachers of Kerala; subject to peer review | 30,997 | CC |
| SCP Foundation | Fiction — horror, science fiction, urban fantasy | Fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative writing wiki project of the same name | 15,000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| 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 | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
| Stadtwiki Karlsruhe | Encyclopedic | Multilingual city wiki for Karlsruhe | 21,157 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Supernatural Wiki | Fiction – Supernatural | The wiki for the hit TV show Supernatural | 4,224 | |
| TermWiki | Words in different languages | Social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. | 1,417,806 | |
| Travellerspoint | Places – Travel | Social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel | 8,578 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| TV Tropes | Encyclopedic | Focuses on documenting tropes in various media | 551,245 | 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. Runs on MediaWiki. | 4,001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Uncyclopedia | Satire – Parody | Satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody, notably parodying Wikipedia. Has 2 "official" English versions due to a split. | 36,500 | 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) | 185,636 | CC BY-NC-ND |
| WikiAnswers | General knowledge | Compiles answers to questions posed | 11,265,000 | Copyrighted |
| WikiArt | Art, paintings | Project aims to create high-quality, complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. | 75,000 | Public domain artworks |
| Wikibooks | General – textbooks | Wikimedia project | 115,200 | CC BY-SA/other |
| Wikidata | Wikimedia project | 106,596,665 items | CC0, CC BY-SA | |
| WikiEducator | Open educational resources | Open educational resources which anyone may use, adapt, and share | 24,985 | 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. | 4,515 | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| WikiFeet (including WikiFeet Men) |
Foot fetishism | Directory of pictures of celebrities' feet | ||
| WikiFur | Furry fandom | 36,000 | CC BY-SA and GDFL | |
| wikiHow | How-to articles | A wiki how-to manual | 166,386 | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
| WikiIslam | Criticism of Islam | 824 | CC BY-NC 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 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Misc – Electronic media | repository of free electronic media; a Wikimedia project | 96,936,435 file pages | CC BY-SA and some other free licenses |
| Wikinews | General – News | Collaborative news service, a Wikimedia project | 1,746,080 article pages | CC BY |
| Wikipedia | Encyclopedic | Multilingual Wikimedia project that uses MediaWiki | 61,690,963 article pages | 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). |
| Wiki Police [1] | Encyclopedia of Police Force | |||
| Wikiquote | Reference – Quotations | Quote repository; a Wikimedia project | 303,765 article pages | 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. | 3,922 in English | Unknown |
| Wikisource | Reference – Primary sources | Digital library of free content textual sources; a Wikimedia project | 5,803,166 article pages | CC BY-SA |
| Wikispecies | Science – Biology | Directory of species; a Wikimedia project | 848,632 article pages | GFDL and CC BY-SA |
| Wikitravel | Places – Travel | Travel guide using Wikimedia's software, but unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation (which hosts Wikivoyage). 20 supported languages | 62,345 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| WikiTree | Genealogy | Free global family tree using MediaWiki software, but unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. | 11,148,296 | Unknown |
| 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. | 132,839 article pages | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| WikiWikiWeb | Computer programming, specifically design patterns | World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) | 34,997 | GPL |
| Wiktionary | Multilingual dictionary | Online dictionary; a Wikimedia project | 36,069,750 articles pages | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Wookieepedia | Fiction – Star Wars | Science fiction encyclopedia | 161,254 | CC BY-SA |
| Wowpedia / WoWWiki | Gaming – Warcraft | Contains in-universe material | 168,466 (Wowpedia); 105,351 (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
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