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A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
s that use a wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
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| A Million Penguins | Fiction—collaboratively-written novel | 491 | Copyrighted | ||
| AboutUs.org AboutUs.org AboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information.... |
Internet directory | Initially pre-populated with information about many different websites. Uses MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... software, but now largely with Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:... |
17,611,146 | GFDL and CC-BY-SA | |
| Appropedia Appropedia Appropedia is a website for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development, with a particular focus on appropriate technology. Appropedia is a wiki-based website like Wikipedia, a website where a large number of participants are allowed to create and... |
English, French, German, Spanish | Sustainable development Sustainable development Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come... , including appropriate technology Appropriate technology Appropriate technology is an ideological movement originally articulated as "intermediate technology" by the economist Dr... merging with several other wikis |
4,184 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Baidu Baike Baidu Baike Baidu Encyclopedia is a Chinese language collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Chinese |
A Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... encyclopedia |
2,878,123 | Copyrighted | |
| Ballotpedia Ballotpedia Ballotpedia is a wiki-style website billed as "an interactive almanac of state politics". InfoWorld has called it one of the "Top 20 Election Day Web sites and online tools".-Purpose:... |
Informative | An interactive almanac of state politics. | 120,671 | GFDL | |
| Biographicon Biographicon The Biographicon was a wiki-based website containing biographies of famous and non-famous people, that existed from March to August 2008. The site also showed connections between individuals covered, and explained the circumstances under which they met.... |
Misc—Biographies Biography A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events... of people |
A directory of personal profiles | Unknown | ||
| Catawiki Catawiki Catawiki is a free-of-charge online wiki-based compendium of collector's catalogues which can be edited by every registered user with the edits subject to expert review... |
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 Citizendium Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project launched by Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Requires real names; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public | 15,308 | CC-by-sa 3.0 | |
| CoalSwarm CoalSwarm CoalSwarm is an American environmentalist online project which focuses on sharing information about the coal industry. It is structured as a set of pages on the SourceWatch wiki. According to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009, it has been an important player in the anti-coal movement... |
Anti-coal information clearinghouse | Joint project of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... and Center for Media and Democracy Center for Media and Democracy The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit investigative reporting group. The CMD gives analysis and opinion on policies such as the economy, environment and national security... |
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| Congresspedia Congresspedia Congresspedia was a wiki that ran from April 2006 to March 2009, designed to hold information on the workings of the U.S. Congress. It was fully contained within SourceWatch, a larger wiki meant to document the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The Congresspedia portion of... |
Government—United States Congress United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.... |
A separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... , since moved to OpenCongress |
CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| Conservapedia Conservapedia Conservapedia is an English-language wiki project written from a self-described American conservative Christian point of view. The website considers itself to be a supporter of "conservative, family-friendly" content... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Information and articles are written from a conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias Media bias Media bias refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the... of Wikipedia. |
33,100 | Copyrighted (free use) | |
| DavisWiki DavisWiki Started in June of 2004, daviswiki.org is a wiki based in Davis, California about the people, events, universities, bands, places and other things of the city... |
Place—Davis, California Davis, California Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area... |
A city wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki | 15,593 | CC-by 3.0 | |
| Diplopedia Diplopedia Diplopedia, billed as the Encyclopedia of the United States Department of State, is a wiki running on a State internal Intranet, called "OpenNet". It houses a unique collection of information pertaining to diplomacy, international relations, and Department of State tradecraft.The wiki may be used... |
Government—Diplomacy Diplomacy Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states... |
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State United States Department of State The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries... collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy |
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| EcuRed EcuRed EcuRed is an online encyclopedia from Cuba built on MediaWiki software. Launched on December 13, 2010, the site, which hosts over 55,000 reference articles, biographies and academic works, aims to share Cuba's vision of the world.... |
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 | |
| Ekopedia Ekopedia Ekopedia is a free , collaborative , and multilingual encyclopedia project dedicated in providing answers and spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability... |
Multilingual—Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Environmental sustainability merging with Appropedia. | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish |
A Spanish language Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... fork of Wikipedia |
47,281 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopædia Dramatica was a satirical open wiki that used MediaWiki software. Launched on December 10, 2004, it lampooned both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related or relevant to contemporary internet culture. It was frequently utilized by a socially fluid and dynamic... |
Satire of Internet meme Internet meme The term Internet meme is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.-Description:... s |
A satirical Satire Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement... wiki |
7,400 | Fair use | |
| English Wikipedia English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Public access, most prominent English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... wiki |
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| Everything2 Everything2 Everything2, Everything2, or E2 for short is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter... |
Personal essay Essay An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition... s |
A wiki-like project for essays | 273,900 | Copyrighted | |
| Foodista.com Foodista.com Foodista.com is an editable online encyclopedia of culinary information. Foodista is built by both registered community members and anonymous contributors through a structured wiki... |
Reference—Food and Cooking | A Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. |
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| Galaxiki Galaxiki Galaxiki is a web-based, free content virtual community web 2.0 project. It consists of a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems that can be explored using a 2-dimensional map... |
Fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
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| GCPEDIA GCPEDIA GCPEDIA is an internal wiki used by the Government of Canada, for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Its slogan is “People & Knowledge“. GCPEDIA is only accessible via the Government of Canada network and contributors must be on a computer on a government network to be able to access it. This... |
Government | Internal Government of Canada Wiki | |||
| GeoNames GeoNames GeoNames is a geographical database available and accessible through various Web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.- Database and web services :... |
Places | A geographical database Database A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information... that links specific names with unique features |
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| Geo-wiki Geo-wiki In recent years the ability to collect spatial information from volunteers has greatly expanded through the combination of , geo-tagged photos and the Internet... |
Global land cover maps | The Geo-Wiki Project is to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. | |||
| Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki is a wiki-powered reference site for NBC's science fiction drama Heroes. Launched on October 10, 2006, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information. Heroes Wiki is supported by revenue from advertising, part of which is donated to various charities... |
Fiction—Heroes Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the... |
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| Hudong (互动百科) | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Largest Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... wiki. Social Networking features. Chinese language only |
3,920,000 | Copyrighted | |
| IIT-Encyclopedia | Educational Encyclopedia for Engineering Students | Free Learning Wiki Resource for students of Engineering | |||
| Intellipedia Intellipedia Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community . It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 and consists of three wikis running on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U... |
Government—Intelligence Intelligence (information gathering) Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership... |
Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community | |||
| International Music Score Library Project International Music Score Library Project The International Music Score Library Project , also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle... |
Music Music Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture... |
A wiki library of public domain musical scores | 14,800 | GFDL | |
| Javapedia Javapedia The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference. It is part of . The website is promoted by Sun Microsystems as the central meeting place for the Java community.... |
Computers—Java | An online encyclopedia for developing Java | 790 | Creative Commons | |
| Judgepedia Judgepedia Judgepedia is a wiki-style website billed as an "interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges".-Mission:The mission of Judgepedia is to help readers find useful information about the court system and judiciary in the United States.-History:... |
Informative | An interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges. | 100,963 | GFDL | |
| Jurispedia Jurispedia Jurispedia is a wiki encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October of 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre... |
Government—Law Law Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus... |
A multi-lingual academic Academia Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning... encyclopedia, including Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... , Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... , English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... , French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... and Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
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| Knol Knol Knol is a Google project that aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Knol has no... |
General purpose | A wiki-like technology from Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
100,000 | CC-by 3.0 | |
| Lostpedia Lostpedia Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information... |
Fiction—Lost Lost (TV series) Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island... |
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| LyricWiki LyricWiki LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by... |
Music—Lyrics Lyrics Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... |
A listing of lyrics by album | 1,147,000 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Marjorie-Wiki | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Marjorie-Wiki is a web site containing articles deleted from German Wikipedia and is involved in the project "Other Wikis" | CC-BY-SA | ||
| Medpedia Medpedia Medpedia is a collaborative project launched on 17 February 2009. Its aim is to create an open access online medical wiki encyclopedia in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, the U.K. National... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... Medical/health |
Requires real names; guided by medical expert input while allowing edits from the general public | CC-BY-SA | ||
| MeatballWiki MeatballWiki MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.... |
Communities—Online communities | 4,900 | Copyrighted | ||
| Memory Alpha Memory Alpha Memory Alpha is a wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Wikia, Inc. on the MediaWiki... |
Fiction—Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
Contains canon-only material | CC-NC 2.5 | ||
| Metapedia Metapedia Metapedia is a white nationalist and white supremacist, extreme right-wing and multilingual online encyclopedia. It was officially launched on October 26, 2006 with the Swedish-language edition. The English section was launched on April 28, 2007... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
A white nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. | 87,521 (Hungarian language version) | unknown | |
| MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Wikipedia. , the MyWikiBiz directory contained over... |
Misc—Business directory | Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | 11,475 | GFDL and other | |
| Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance or NIWA is an affiliation containing wikis concerning Nintendo franchises. The coalition site was founded 14 February 2010 by the users of Bulbapedia, ZeldaWiki, and Super Mario Wiki, and the coalition has grown to 18 different wikis. It was founded with the... |
Information Information Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as... on Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.... franchise Franchise Franchise generally means a right or privilege. It may refer to:*Suffrage, the civil right to vote*Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business, such as:... |
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| NotePub NotePub NotePub is an online notepad that allows for private, public, and shared notes. NotePub is also an open purpose wiki without a markup language. Notes can include files and images, and can be linked to other notes within NotePub, or to external websites. Content is organized chronologically and with... |
General purpose | An online notepad that allows for both public and private content. | |||
| OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The... |
Places—Map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... s |
Uses GPS Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites... , aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world |
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| OpenWetWare OpenWetWare OpenWetWare is a wiki whose mission is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research | CC-BY-SA | ||
| PlanetMath PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital... |
Misc—Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... |
Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia | |||
| Pornopedia Pornopedia Pornopedia is a Wiki project about pornography, erotica, sexuality and everything related to it including actors, directors, movies, books and toys.Pornopedia is run by Till Kraemer, a German actor, TV host and former porn actor.- Content :... |
Sexuality | Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography Pornography Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,... and sexuality |
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| Public Computing in Champaign-Urbana | Public computing | A list of public computing resources in Champaign, Illinois Champaign, Illinois Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of... and Urbana, Illinois Urbana, Illinois Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,250. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.... , USA, hosted by www.eBlackCU.net, the Champaign-Urbana African American community heritage archive |
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| Quora Quora Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The site was founded in June 2009, launched in private beta in December 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.... |
General Knowledge | A question-and-answer (Q&A) site Knowledge market A knowledge market is a mechanism for distributing knowledge resources. There are two views on knowledge and how knowledge markets can function. One view uses a legal construct of intellectual property to make knowledge a typical scarce resource, so the traditional commodity market mechanism can be... , similar to Yahoo Answers. |
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| riscos.info Riscos.info riscos.info is a web site for users of the operating system, run by Peter Naulls and John Tytgat. It is a community web site, intended to encourage user involvement. It hosts the FAQ, which was formerly distributed via the comp.sys.acorn.* newsgroups... |
ComputersRISC OS RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England for their range of desktop computers, based on their own ARM architecture. First released in 1987, under the name Arthur, the subsequent iteration was renamed as in 1988... |
Hosts C programming resources and projects | 197 | cc-by 2.5 | |
| Scholarpedia Scholarpedia Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but has features more commonly associated with open-access online academic journals.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review Peer review Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility... |
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| Sensei's Library Sensei's Library Sensei's Library is an internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of the Wikipedia project on the internet. Sensei's Library was started in September 2000, by the Go players Morten Pahle and Arno... |
Misc—Go (game) | 18,200 | OPL | ||
| ShopWiki ShopWiki ShopWiki is an Internet shopping search engine founded in 2005 and launched in early 2006. It was founded by the former DoubleClick CEO Kevin P. Ryan, the former CTO and DoubleClick co-founder Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Their primary distinguisher is crawling the internet for stores... |
Misc—Products Product (business) In general, the product is defined as a "thing produced by labor or effort" or the "result of an act or a process", and stems from the verb produce, from the Latin prōdūce ' lead or bring forth'. Since 1575, the word "product" has referred to anything produced... |
A shopping wiki and product comparison search engine featuring buying guides and shopping resources | |||
| SKYbrary SKYbrary SKYbrary is a wiki created by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online. It was launched in May 2008 on a platform... |
Aviation safety information | ||||
| SNPedia SNPedia SNPedia is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms . Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP... |
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 | CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 | |
| SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... |
Social—Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.... |
Formerly Disinfopedia, discusses propaganda and includes organizations that seek to influence public opinion | GFDL | ||
| Stadtwiki Karlsruhe Stadtwiki Karlsruhe The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is a City wiki of the German town Karlsruhe and its surroundings, which is the largest in the world.- History :It was founded by the former pupil Hauke Löffler on the 22nd of Juli 2004... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual city wiki City wiki A city wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. The term 'city wiki' or its foreign language equivalent is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. A city wiki contains information about... for Karlsruhe Karlsruhe The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states... |
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| The Student Room The Student Room The Student Room , known from 2001 until 2004 as UK Learning, is a United Kingdom-based internet forum for school and university students... |
Place—UK University and student Student A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English... life |
Offers UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses | |||
| Susning.nu Susning.nu Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Swedish |
A Swedish language Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... encyclopedia, which competes with Swedish Wikipedia Swedish Wikipedia The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia... |
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| SWiK SWiK SWiK.net is an open-access wiki created by SourceLabs to document open source software. Swik.net publishes articles on software development of open source projects. The software used was independently written by SourceLabs. SWiK also allows for syndication of RSS feeds which enables rapid... |
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| TermWiki TermWiki TermWiki.com is a major social learning network that allows users to learn, discover, share, and store personal terms and glossaries in 1487 domains in 97 languages. The site emphasizes collaboration, with a forum, a question/answer module, messaging features that encourage user interaction, and... |
Words in different languages | A social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. | 1,417,806 | ||
| Travellerspoint Travellerspoint Travellerspoint is a social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers. Members of the site participate through forums, blogs, photo galleries and a wiki travel guide.- Major Features :... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel | 2,400 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| TV Tropes TV Tropes TV Tropes is a wiki which collects and expands on various conventions and devices found within creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to also covering those in a number of other media such as literature, comics, video-games,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Focuses on documenting tropes Trope (literature) A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning... in various media |
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| Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia is a satirical website that parodies Wikipedia. Founded in 2005 as an originally English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 75 languages... |
Satire—Parody Parody A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation... |
A satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody | 134,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 | |
| Vikidia Vikidia Vikidia is an online encyclopedia wiki for children, that runs on MediaWiki software. It is available in both French and Spanish. The site focuses on presenting articles readable by children from eight to thirteen years of age, as well as providing a resource for those learning Spanish and French... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish and French |
A Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... and French language French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... encyclopedia for children ages 8–13 |
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| Wikia Wikia Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki... |
Miscellaneous | Online games, movies | 105,000 | ||
| WikiAnswers WikiAnswers WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions.This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and fundamentals, allowing communal ownership and editing of content. Each question has a "living"... |
General knowledge | Compiles answers to questions posed | 11,265,000 | Copyrighted | |
| Wikibooks Wikibooks Wikibooks is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.... |
General—textbook Textbook A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions... s |
A wikimedia project | 115,200 | CC-BY-SA/other | |
| WikiCandidate WikiCandidate WikiCandidate is a wiki designed to collaboratively create a virtual political campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. Begun by students and faculty at the Cornell University Department of Communication, its content is intended to be a tool for understanding what characteristics the... |
Fictional presidential campaign Political campaign A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendums are decided... |
A virtual campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. A project of Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... . |
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| Wikicollecting Wikicollecting Wikicollecting is a wiki-based open-source encyclopedia covering all areas of antiques and collectables. It is built through an international collaboration of collectors and experts, and encourages users to submit, edit, update and expand articles for future generations of collectors.The site... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
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. | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 | ||
| wikiHow WikiHow wikiHow is a web-based and wiki-based community, consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow's mission is to build the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual. The site started as an extension of the already existing eHow website, and has evolved to host over 127,000... |
General instruction | A how-to manual | 105,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.5 | |
| WikiMapia Wikimapia WikiMapia is a privately owned, online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth. Users may currently use this information for free... |
Places—On-line map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... |
Combines Google Maps with a wiki system; currently supports 35 languages | |||
| Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.... |
Misc—Electronic media Electronic media Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form... |
A repository of free electronic media; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA and other | ||
| Wikinews Wikinews Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an... |
General—News News News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :... |
Collaborative news service, a wikimedia project | CC-BY | ||
| Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... project |
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| WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas is an online, free content website which bills itself as a combination "non-academic encyclopedia", web portal, directory and almanac for Philippine-based knowledge. Like Wikipedia, it contains various articles on Philippine-related topics... |
Place—The Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
A combined non-academic encyclopedia, web portal Web portal A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way.... , directory Directory (databases) Generally, a directory, as used in computing and telephony, refers to a repository or database of information which is heavily optimized for reading, under the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads... and almanac Almanac An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc... for Philippine-based knowledge |
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| Wikiquote Wikiquote Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books,... |
Reference—Quotation Quotation A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any... s |
A quote repository, a wikimedia project | 90,200 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Wikisource Wikisource Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has... |
Reference—Primary source Primary source Primary source is a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.... s |
Dedicated to use on Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... ; a wikimedia project |
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| Wikispecies Wikispecies Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species and is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
A directory of species Species In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are... ; wikimedia project |
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| Wikitravel Wikitravel -External links:* *... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A travel guide using wikimedia's software, but otherwise unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. 20 supported languages | 48,000 | CC-BY-SA 1.0 | |
| Wikiversity Wikiversity Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project, which supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of learning, rather than... |
General—Self-directed learning | Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first... |
Computer programming Computer programming Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a... , specifically design patterns Design pattern (computer science) In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that... |
World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) | 34,997 | GPL | |
| Wiktionary Wiktionary Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages... |
Multilingual dictionary | ||||
| Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio was a listener-controlled, internet-only webcast and Mediawiki wiki based in Talkeetna, Alaska, centered around independent music aired 24 hours a day, that was financially and operationally maintained by an all-volunteer community as a grassroots alternative to mainstream media... |
Music—Indie music | An online community radio station featuring independent music | |||
| Wookieepedia Wookieepedia Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information on all six films, as well as The Clone Wars and the Expanded Universe... |
Fiction—Star Wars Star Wars Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year... |
Science fiction Science fiction Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... encyclopedia |
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| WoWWiki WoWWiki - External links :*... |
Gaming—Warcraft Warcraft Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the... |
Contains in-universe material; migrated to Wowpedia in 2010 | 91,521 (WoWWiki); (Wowpedia) | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| ZineWiki ZineWiki ZineWiki is an open-source online wiki devoted to zines, fanzines, small press publications, chapbooks, and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.-History:... |
Social—Independent media Independent media Independent media refers to any form of media, such as radio, television, newspapers or the Internet, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications... |
A zine Zine A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier.... encyclopedia |
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| A Million Penguins | Fiction—collaboratively-written novel | 491 | Copyrighted | ||
| AboutUs.org AboutUs.org AboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information.... |
Internet directory | Initially pre-populated with information about many different websites. Uses MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... software, but now largely with Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:... |
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| Appropedia Appropedia Appropedia is a website for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development, with a particular focus on appropriate technology. Appropedia is a wiki-based website like Wikipedia, a website where a large number of participants are allowed to create and... |
English, French, German, Spanish | Sustainable development Sustainable development Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come... , including appropriate technology Appropriate technology Appropriate technology is an ideological movement originally articulated as "intermediate technology" by the economist Dr... merging with several other wikis |
4,184 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Baidu Baike Baidu Baike Baidu Encyclopedia is a Chinese language collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Chinese |
A Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... encyclopedia |
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| Ballotpedia Ballotpedia Ballotpedia is a wiki-style website billed as "an interactive almanac of state politics". InfoWorld has called it one of the "Top 20 Election Day Web sites and online tools".-Purpose:... |
Informative | An interactive almanac of state politics. | 120,671 | GFDL | |
| Biographicon Biographicon The Biographicon was a wiki-based website containing biographies of famous and non-famous people, that existed from March to August 2008. The site also showed connections between individuals covered, and explained the circumstances under which they met.... |
Misc—Biographies Biography A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events... of people |
A directory of personal profiles | Unknown | ||
| Catawiki Catawiki Catawiki is a free-of-charge online wiki-based compendium of collector's catalogues which can be edited by every registered user with the edits subject to expert review... |
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 Citizendium Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project launched by Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Requires real names; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public | 15,308 | CC-by-sa 3.0 | |
| CoalSwarm CoalSwarm CoalSwarm is an American environmentalist online project which focuses on sharing information about the coal industry. It is structured as a set of pages on the SourceWatch wiki. According to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009, it has been an important player in the anti-coal movement... |
Anti-coal information clearinghouse | Joint project of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... and Center for Media and Democracy Center for Media and Democracy The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit investigative reporting group. The CMD gives analysis and opinion on policies such as the economy, environment and national security... |
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| Congresspedia Congresspedia Congresspedia was a wiki that ran from April 2006 to March 2009, designed to hold information on the workings of the U.S. Congress. It was fully contained within SourceWatch, a larger wiki meant to document the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The Congresspedia portion of... |
Government—United States Congress United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.... |
A separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... , since moved to OpenCongress |
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| Conservapedia Conservapedia Conservapedia is an English-language wiki project written from a self-described American conservative Christian point of view. The website considers itself to be a supporter of "conservative, family-friendly" content... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Information and articles are written from a conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias Media bias Media bias refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the... of Wikipedia. |
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| DavisWiki DavisWiki Started in June of 2004, daviswiki.org is a wiki based in Davis, California about the people, events, universities, bands, places and other things of the city... |
Place—Davis, California Davis, California Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area... |
A city wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki | 15,593 | CC-by 3.0 | |
| Diplopedia Diplopedia Diplopedia, billed as the Encyclopedia of the United States Department of State, is a wiki running on a State internal Intranet, called "OpenNet". It houses a unique collection of information pertaining to diplomacy, international relations, and Department of State tradecraft.The wiki may be used... |
Government—Diplomacy Diplomacy Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states... |
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State United States Department of State The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries... collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy |
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| EcuRed EcuRed EcuRed is an online encyclopedia from Cuba built on MediaWiki software. Launched on December 13, 2010, the site, which hosts over 55,000 reference articles, biographies and academic works, aims to share Cuba's vision of the world.... |
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 | |
| Ekopedia Ekopedia Ekopedia is a free , collaborative , and multilingual encyclopedia project dedicated in providing answers and spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability... |
Multilingual—Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Environmental sustainability merging with Appropedia. | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish |
A Spanish language Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... fork of Wikipedia |
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| Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopædia Dramatica was a satirical open wiki that used MediaWiki software. Launched on December 10, 2004, it lampooned both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related or relevant to contemporary internet culture. It was frequently utilized by a socially fluid and dynamic... |
Satire of Internet meme Internet meme The term Internet meme is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.-Description:... s |
A satirical Satire Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement... wiki |
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| English Wikipedia English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Public access, most prominent English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... wiki |
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| Everything2 Everything2 Everything2, Everything2, or E2 for short is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter... |
Personal essay Essay An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition... s |
A wiki-like project for essays | 273,900 | Copyrighted | |
| Foodista.com Foodista.com Foodista.com is an editable online encyclopedia of culinary information. Foodista is built by both registered community members and anonymous contributors through a structured wiki... |
Reference—Food and Cooking | A Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. |
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| Galaxiki Galaxiki Galaxiki is a web-based, free content virtual community web 2.0 project. It consists of a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems that can be explored using a 2-dimensional map... |
Fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
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| GCPEDIA GCPEDIA GCPEDIA is an internal wiki used by the Government of Canada, for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Its slogan is “People & Knowledge“. GCPEDIA is only accessible via the Government of Canada network and contributors must be on a computer on a government network to be able to access it. This... |
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| GeoNames GeoNames GeoNames is a geographical database available and accessible through various Web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.- Database and web services :... |
Places | A geographical database Database A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information... that links specific names with unique features |
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| Geo-wiki Geo-wiki In recent years the ability to collect spatial information from volunteers has greatly expanded through the combination of , geo-tagged photos and the Internet... |
Global land cover maps | The Geo-Wiki Project is to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. | |||
| Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki is a wiki-powered reference site for NBC's science fiction drama Heroes. Launched on October 10, 2006, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information. Heroes Wiki is supported by revenue from advertising, part of which is donated to various charities... |
Fiction—Heroes Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the... |
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| Hudong (互动百科) | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Largest Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... wiki. Social Networking features. Chinese language only |
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| IIT-Encyclopedia | Educational Encyclopedia for Engineering Students | Free Learning Wiki Resource for students of Engineering | |||
| Intellipedia Intellipedia Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community . It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 and consists of three wikis running on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U... |
Government—Intelligence Intelligence (information gathering) Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership... |
Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community | |||
| International Music Score Library Project International Music Score Library Project The International Music Score Library Project , also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle... |
Music Music Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture... |
A wiki library of public domain musical scores | 14,800 | GFDL | |
| Javapedia Javapedia The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference. It is part of . The website is promoted by Sun Microsystems as the central meeting place for the Java community.... |
Computers—Java | An online encyclopedia for developing Java | 790 | Creative Commons | |
| Judgepedia Judgepedia Judgepedia is a wiki-style website billed as an "interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges".-Mission:The mission of Judgepedia is to help readers find useful information about the court system and judiciary in the United States.-History:... |
Informative | An interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges. | 100,963 | GFDL | |
| Jurispedia Jurispedia Jurispedia is a wiki encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October of 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre... |
Government—Law Law Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus... |
A multi-lingual academic Academia Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning... encyclopedia, including Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... , Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... , English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... , French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... and Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
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| Knol Knol Knol is a Google project that aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Knol has no... |
General purpose | A wiki-like technology from Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
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| Lostpedia Lostpedia Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information... |
Fiction—Lost Lost (TV series) Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island... |
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| LyricWiki LyricWiki LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by... |
Music—Lyrics Lyrics Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... |
A listing of lyrics by album | 1,147,000 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Marjorie-Wiki | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Marjorie-Wiki is a web site containing articles deleted from German Wikipedia and is involved in the project "Other Wikis" | CC-BY-SA | ||
| Medpedia Medpedia Medpedia is a collaborative project launched on 17 February 2009. Its aim is to create an open access online medical wiki encyclopedia in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, the U.K. National... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... Medical/health |
Requires real names; guided by medical expert input while allowing edits from the general public | CC-BY-SA | ||
| MeatballWiki MeatballWiki MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.... |
Communities—Online communities | 4,900 | Copyrighted | ||
| Memory Alpha Memory Alpha Memory Alpha is a wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Wikia, Inc. on the MediaWiki... |
Fiction—Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
Contains canon-only material | CC-NC 2.5 | ||
| Metapedia Metapedia Metapedia is a white nationalist and white supremacist, extreme right-wing and multilingual online encyclopedia. It was officially launched on October 26, 2006 with the Swedish-language edition. The English section was launched on April 28, 2007... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
A white nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. | 87,521 (Hungarian language version) | unknown | |
| MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Wikipedia. , the MyWikiBiz directory contained over... |
Misc—Business directory | Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | 11,475 | GFDL and other | |
| Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance or NIWA is an affiliation containing wikis concerning Nintendo franchises. The coalition site was founded 14 February 2010 by the users of Bulbapedia, ZeldaWiki, and Super Mario Wiki, and the coalition has grown to 18 different wikis. It was founded with the... |
Information Information Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as... on Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.... franchise Franchise Franchise generally means a right or privilege. It may refer to:*Suffrage, the civil right to vote*Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business, such as:... |
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| NotePub NotePub NotePub is an online notepad that allows for private, public, and shared notes. NotePub is also an open purpose wiki without a markup language. Notes can include files and images, and can be linked to other notes within NotePub, or to external websites. Content is organized chronologically and with... |
General purpose | An online notepad that allows for both public and private content. | |||
| OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The... |
Places—Map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... s |
Uses GPS Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites... , aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world |
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| OpenWetWare OpenWetWare OpenWetWare is a wiki whose mission is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research | CC-BY-SA | ||
| PlanetMath PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital... |
Misc—Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... |
Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia | |||
| Pornopedia Pornopedia Pornopedia is a Wiki project about pornography, erotica, sexuality and everything related to it including actors, directors, movies, books and toys.Pornopedia is run by Till Kraemer, a German actor, TV host and former porn actor.- Content :... |
Sexuality | Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography Pornography Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,... and sexuality |
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| Public Computing in Champaign-Urbana | Public computing | A list of public computing resources in Champaign, Illinois Champaign, Illinois Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of... and Urbana, Illinois Urbana, Illinois Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,250. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.... , USA, hosted by www.eBlackCU.net, the Champaign-Urbana African American community heritage archive |
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| Quora Quora Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The site was founded in June 2009, launched in private beta in December 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.... |
General Knowledge | A question-and-answer (Q&A) site Knowledge market A knowledge market is a mechanism for distributing knowledge resources. There are two views on knowledge and how knowledge markets can function. One view uses a legal construct of intellectual property to make knowledge a typical scarce resource, so the traditional commodity market mechanism can be... , similar to Yahoo Answers. |
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| riscos.info Riscos.info riscos.info is a web site for users of the operating system, run by Peter Naulls and John Tytgat. It is a community web site, intended to encourage user involvement. It hosts the FAQ, which was formerly distributed via the comp.sys.acorn.* newsgroups... |
ComputersRISC OS RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England for their range of desktop computers, based on their own ARM architecture. First released in 1987, under the name Arthur, the subsequent iteration was renamed as in 1988... |
Hosts C programming resources and projects | 197 | cc-by 2.5 | |
| Scholarpedia Scholarpedia Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but has features more commonly associated with open-access online academic journals.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review Peer review Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility... |
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| Sensei's Library Sensei's Library Sensei's Library is an internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of the Wikipedia project on the internet. Sensei's Library was started in September 2000, by the Go players Morten Pahle and Arno... |
Misc—Go (game) | 18,200 | OPL | ||
| ShopWiki ShopWiki ShopWiki is an Internet shopping search engine founded in 2005 and launched in early 2006. It was founded by the former DoubleClick CEO Kevin P. Ryan, the former CTO and DoubleClick co-founder Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Their primary distinguisher is crawling the internet for stores... |
Misc—Products Product (business) In general, the product is defined as a "thing produced by labor or effort" or the "result of an act or a process", and stems from the verb produce, from the Latin prōdūce ' lead or bring forth'. Since 1575, the word "product" has referred to anything produced... |
A shopping wiki and product comparison search engine featuring buying guides and shopping resources | |||
| SKYbrary SKYbrary SKYbrary is a wiki created by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online. It was launched in May 2008 on a platform... |
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| SNPedia SNPedia SNPedia is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms . Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP... |
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 | CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 | |
| SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... |
Social—Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.... |
Formerly Disinfopedia, discusses propaganda and includes organizations that seek to influence public opinion | GFDL | ||
| Stadtwiki Karlsruhe Stadtwiki Karlsruhe The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is a City wiki of the German town Karlsruhe and its surroundings, which is the largest in the world.- History :It was founded by the former pupil Hauke Löffler on the 22nd of Juli 2004... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual city wiki City wiki A city wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. The term 'city wiki' or its foreign language equivalent is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. A city wiki contains information about... for Karlsruhe Karlsruhe The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states... |
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| The Student Room The Student Room The Student Room , known from 2001 until 2004 as UK Learning, is a United Kingdom-based internet forum for school and university students... |
Place—UK University and student Student A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English... life |
Offers UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses | |||
| Susning.nu Susning.nu Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Swedish |
A Swedish language Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... encyclopedia, which competes with Swedish Wikipedia Swedish Wikipedia The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia... |
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| SWiK SWiK SWiK.net is an open-access wiki created by SourceLabs to document open source software. Swik.net publishes articles on software development of open source projects. The software used was independently written by SourceLabs. SWiK also allows for syndication of RSS feeds which enables rapid... |
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| TermWiki TermWiki TermWiki.com is a major social learning network that allows users to learn, discover, share, and store personal terms and glossaries in 1487 domains in 97 languages. The site emphasizes collaboration, with a forum, a question/answer module, messaging features that encourage user interaction, and... |
Words in different languages | A social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. | 1,417,806 | ||
| Travellerspoint Travellerspoint Travellerspoint is a social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers. Members of the site participate through forums, blogs, photo galleries and a wiki travel guide.- Major Features :... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel | 2,400 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| TV Tropes TV Tropes TV Tropes is a wiki which collects and expands on various conventions and devices found within creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to also covering those in a number of other media such as literature, comics, video-games,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Focuses on documenting tropes Trope (literature) A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning... in various media |
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| Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia is a satirical website that parodies Wikipedia. Founded in 2005 as an originally English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 75 languages... |
Satire—Parody Parody A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation... |
A satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody | 134,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 | |
| Vikidia Vikidia Vikidia is an online encyclopedia wiki for children, that runs on MediaWiki software. It is available in both French and Spanish. The site focuses on presenting articles readable by children from eight to thirteen years of age, as well as providing a resource for those learning Spanish and French... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish and French |
A Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... and French language French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... encyclopedia for children ages 8–13 |
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| Wikia Wikia Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki... |
Miscellaneous | Online games, movies | 105,000 | ||
| WikiAnswers WikiAnswers WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions.This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and fundamentals, allowing communal ownership and editing of content. Each question has a "living"... |
General knowledge | Compiles answers to questions posed | 11,265,000 | Copyrighted | |
| Wikibooks Wikibooks Wikibooks is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.... |
General—textbook Textbook A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions... s |
A wikimedia project | 115,200 | CC-BY-SA/other | |
| WikiCandidate WikiCandidate WikiCandidate is a wiki designed to collaboratively create a virtual political campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. Begun by students and faculty at the Cornell University Department of Communication, its content is intended to be a tool for understanding what characteristics the... |
Fictional presidential campaign Political campaign A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendums are decided... |
A virtual campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. A project of Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... . |
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| Wikicollecting Wikicollecting Wikicollecting is a wiki-based open-source encyclopedia covering all areas of antiques and collectables. It is built through an international collaboration of collectors and experts, and encourages users to submit, edit, update and expand articles for future generations of collectors.The site... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
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. | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 | ||
| wikiHow WikiHow wikiHow is a web-based and wiki-based community, consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow's mission is to build the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual. The site started as an extension of the already existing eHow website, and has evolved to host over 127,000... |
General instruction | A how-to manual | 105,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.5 | |
| WikiMapia Wikimapia WikiMapia is a privately owned, online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth. Users may currently use this information for free... |
Places—On-line map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... |
Combines Google Maps with a wiki system; currently supports 35 languages | |||
| Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.... |
Misc—Electronic media Electronic media Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form... |
A repository of free electronic media; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA and other | ||
| Wikinews Wikinews Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an... |
General—News News News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :... |
Collaborative news service, a wikimedia project | CC-BY | ||
| Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... project |
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| WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas is an online, free content website which bills itself as a combination "non-academic encyclopedia", web portal, directory and almanac for Philippine-based knowledge. Like Wikipedia, it contains various articles on Philippine-related topics... |
Place—The Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
A combined non-academic encyclopedia, web portal Web portal A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way.... , directory Directory (databases) Generally, a directory, as used in computing and telephony, refers to a repository or database of information which is heavily optimized for reading, under the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads... and almanac Almanac An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc... for Philippine-based knowledge |
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| Wikiquote Wikiquote Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books,... |
Reference—Quotation Quotation A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any... s |
A quote repository, a wikimedia project | 90,200 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Wikisource Wikisource Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has... |
Reference—Primary source Primary source Primary source is a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.... s |
Dedicated to use on Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... ; a wikimedia project |
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| Wikispecies Wikispecies Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species and is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
A directory of species Species In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are... ; wikimedia project |
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| Wikitravel Wikitravel -External links:* *... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A travel guide using wikimedia's software, but otherwise unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. 20 supported languages | 48,000 | CC-BY-SA 1.0 | |
| Wikiversity Wikiversity Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project, which supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of learning, rather than... |
General—Self-directed learning | Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first... |
Computer programming Computer programming Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a... , specifically design patterns Design pattern (computer science) In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that... |
World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) | 34,997 | GPL | |
| Wiktionary Wiktionary Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages... |
Multilingual dictionary | ||||
| Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio was a listener-controlled, internet-only webcast and Mediawiki wiki based in Talkeetna, Alaska, centered around independent music aired 24 hours a day, that was financially and operationally maintained by an all-volunteer community as a grassroots alternative to mainstream media... |
Music—Indie music | An online community radio station featuring independent music | |||
| Wookieepedia Wookieepedia Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information on all six films, as well as The Clone Wars and the Expanded Universe... |
Fiction—Star Wars Star Wars Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year... |
Science fiction Science fiction Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... encyclopedia |
85,215 | CC-BY-SA | |
| WoWWiki WoWWiki - External links :*... |
Gaming—Warcraft Warcraft Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the... |
Contains in-universe material; migrated to Wowpedia in 2010 | 91,521 (WoWWiki); (Wowpedia) | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| ZineWiki ZineWiki ZineWiki is an open-source online wiki devoted to zines, fanzines, small press publications, chapbooks, and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.-History:... |
Social—Independent media Independent media Independent media refers to any form of media, such as radio, television, newspapers or the Internet, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications... |
A zine Zine A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier.... encyclopedia |
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| A Million Penguins | Fiction—collaboratively-written novel | 491 | Copyrighted | ||
| AboutUs.org AboutUs.org AboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information.... |
Internet directory | Initially pre-populated with information about many different websites. Uses MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... software, but now largely with Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:... |
17,611,146 | GFDL and CC-BY-SA | |
| Appropedia Appropedia Appropedia is a website for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development, with a particular focus on appropriate technology. Appropedia is a wiki-based website like Wikipedia, a website where a large number of participants are allowed to create and... |
English, French, German, Spanish | Sustainable development Sustainable development Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come... , including appropriate technology Appropriate technology Appropriate technology is an ideological movement originally articulated as "intermediate technology" by the economist Dr... merging with several other wikis |
4,184 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Baidu Baike Baidu Baike Baidu Encyclopedia is a Chinese language collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Chinese |
A Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... encyclopedia |
2,878,123 | Copyrighted | |
| Ballotpedia Ballotpedia Ballotpedia is a wiki-style website billed as "an interactive almanac of state politics". InfoWorld has called it one of the "Top 20 Election Day Web sites and online tools".-Purpose:... |
Informative | An interactive almanac of state politics. | 120,671 | GFDL | |
| Biographicon Biographicon The Biographicon was a wiki-based website containing biographies of famous and non-famous people, that existed from March to August 2008. The site also showed connections between individuals covered, and explained the circumstances under which they met.... |
Misc—Biographies Biography A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events... of people |
A directory of personal profiles | Unknown | ||
| Catawiki Catawiki Catawiki is a free-of-charge online wiki-based compendium of collector's catalogues which can be edited by every registered user with the edits subject to expert review... |
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 Citizendium Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project launched by Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Requires real names; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public | 15,308 | CC-by-sa 3.0 | |
| CoalSwarm CoalSwarm CoalSwarm is an American environmentalist online project which focuses on sharing information about the coal industry. It is structured as a set of pages on the SourceWatch wiki. According to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009, it has been an important player in the anti-coal movement... |
Anti-coal information clearinghouse | Joint project of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... and Center for Media and Democracy Center for Media and Democracy The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit investigative reporting group. The CMD gives analysis and opinion on policies such as the economy, environment and national security... |
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| Congresspedia Congresspedia Congresspedia was a wiki that ran from April 2006 to March 2009, designed to hold information on the workings of the U.S. Congress. It was fully contained within SourceWatch, a larger wiki meant to document the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The Congresspedia portion of... |
Government—United States Congress United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.... |
A separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... , since moved to OpenCongress |
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| Conservapedia Conservapedia Conservapedia is an English-language wiki project written from a self-described American conservative Christian point of view. The website considers itself to be a supporter of "conservative, family-friendly" content... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Information and articles are written from a conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias Media bias Media bias refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the... of Wikipedia. |
33,100 | Copyrighted (free use) | |
| DavisWiki DavisWiki Started in June of 2004, daviswiki.org is a wiki based in Davis, California about the people, events, universities, bands, places and other things of the city... |
Place—Davis, California Davis, California Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area... |
A city wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki | 15,593 | CC-by 3.0 | |
| Diplopedia Diplopedia Diplopedia, billed as the Encyclopedia of the United States Department of State, is a wiki running on a State internal Intranet, called "OpenNet". It houses a unique collection of information pertaining to diplomacy, international relations, and Department of State tradecraft.The wiki may be used... |
Government—Diplomacy Diplomacy Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states... |
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State United States Department of State The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries... collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy |
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| EcuRed EcuRed EcuRed is an online encyclopedia from Cuba built on MediaWiki software. Launched on December 13, 2010, the site, which hosts over 55,000 reference articles, biographies and academic works, aims to share Cuba's vision of the world.... |
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 | |
| Ekopedia Ekopedia Ekopedia is a free , collaborative , and multilingual encyclopedia project dedicated in providing answers and spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability... |
Multilingual—Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Environmental sustainability merging with Appropedia. | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish |
A Spanish language Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... fork of Wikipedia |
47,281 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopedia Dramatica Encyclopædia Dramatica was a satirical open wiki that used MediaWiki software. Launched on December 10, 2004, it lampooned both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related or relevant to contemporary internet culture. It was frequently utilized by a socially fluid and dynamic... |
Satire of Internet meme Internet meme The term Internet meme is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.-Description:... s |
A satirical Satire Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement... wiki |
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| English Wikipedia English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Public access, most prominent English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... wiki |
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| Everything2 Everything2 Everything2, Everything2, or E2 for short is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter... |
Personal essay Essay An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition... s |
A wiki-like project for essays | 273,900 | Copyrighted | |
| Foodista.com Foodista.com Foodista.com is an editable online encyclopedia of culinary information. Foodista is built by both registered community members and anonymous contributors through a structured wiki... |
Reference—Food and Cooking | A Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. |
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| Galaxiki Galaxiki Galaxiki is a web-based, free content virtual community web 2.0 project. It consists of a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems that can be explored using a 2-dimensional map... |
Fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a... |
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| GCPEDIA GCPEDIA GCPEDIA is an internal wiki used by the Government of Canada, for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Its slogan is “People & Knowledge“. GCPEDIA is only accessible via the Government of Canada network and contributors must be on a computer on a government network to be able to access it. This... |
Government | Internal Government of Canada Wiki | |||
| GeoNames GeoNames GeoNames is a geographical database available and accessible through various Web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.- Database and web services :... |
Places | A geographical database Database A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information... that links specific names with unique features |
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| Geo-wiki Geo-wiki In recent years the ability to collect spatial information from volunteers has greatly expanded through the combination of , geo-tagged photos and the Internet... |
Global land cover maps | The Geo-Wiki Project is to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. | |||
| Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki is a wiki-powered reference site for NBC's science fiction drama Heroes. Launched on October 10, 2006, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information. Heroes Wiki is supported by revenue from advertising, part of which is donated to various charities... |
Fiction—Heroes Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the... |
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| Hudong (互动百科) | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Largest Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... wiki. Social Networking features. Chinese language only |
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| IIT-Encyclopedia | Educational Encyclopedia for Engineering Students | Free Learning Wiki Resource for students of Engineering | |||
| Intellipedia Intellipedia Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community . It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 and consists of three wikis running on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U... |
Government—Intelligence Intelligence (information gathering) Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership... |
Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community | |||
| International Music Score Library Project International Music Score Library Project The International Music Score Library Project , also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle... |
Music Music Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture... |
A wiki library of public domain musical scores | 14,800 | GFDL | |
| Javapedia Javapedia The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference. It is part of . The website is promoted by Sun Microsystems as the central meeting place for the Java community.... |
Computers—Java | An online encyclopedia for developing Java | 790 | Creative Commons | |
| Judgepedia Judgepedia Judgepedia is a wiki-style website billed as an "interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges".-Mission:The mission of Judgepedia is to help readers find useful information about the court system and judiciary in the United States.-History:... |
Informative | An interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges. | 100,963 | GFDL | |
| Jurispedia Jurispedia Jurispedia is a wiki encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October of 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre... |
Government—Law Law Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus... |
A multi-lingual academic Academia Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning... encyclopedia, including Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... , Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... , English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... , French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... , German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... and Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
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| Knol Knol Knol is a Google project that aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Knol has no... |
General purpose | A wiki-like technology from Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
100,000 | CC-by 3.0 | |
| Lostpedia Lostpedia Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information... |
Fiction—Lost Lost (TV series) Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island... |
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| LyricWiki LyricWiki LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by... |
Music—Lyrics Lyrics Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... |
A listing of lyrics by album | 1,147,000 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Marjorie-Wiki | Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Marjorie-Wiki is a web site containing articles deleted from German Wikipedia and is involved in the project "Other Wikis" | CC-BY-SA | ||
| Medpedia Medpedia Medpedia is a collaborative project launched on 17 February 2009. Its aim is to create an open access online medical wiki encyclopedia in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, the U.K. National... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... Medical/health |
Requires real names; guided by medical expert input while allowing edits from the general public | CC-BY-SA | ||
| MeatballWiki MeatballWiki MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.... |
Communities—Online communities | 4,900 | Copyrighted | ||
| Memory Alpha Memory Alpha Memory Alpha is a wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Wikia, Inc. on the MediaWiki... |
Fiction—Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
Contains canon-only material | CC-NC 2.5 | ||
| Metapedia Metapedia Metapedia is a white nationalist and white supremacist, extreme right-wing and multilingual online encyclopedia. It was officially launched on October 26, 2006 with the Swedish-language edition. The English section was launched on April 28, 2007... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
A white nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. | 87,521 (Hungarian language version) | unknown | |
| MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Wikipedia. , the MyWikiBiz directory contained over... |
Misc—Business directory | Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | 11,475 | GFDL and other | |
| Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance or NIWA is an affiliation containing wikis concerning Nintendo franchises. The coalition site was founded 14 February 2010 by the users of Bulbapedia, ZeldaWiki, and Super Mario Wiki, and the coalition has grown to 18 different wikis. It was founded with the... |
Information Information Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as... on Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.... franchise Franchise Franchise generally means a right or privilege. It may refer to:*Suffrage, the civil right to vote*Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business, such as:... |
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| NotePub NotePub NotePub is an online notepad that allows for private, public, and shared notes. NotePub is also an open purpose wiki without a markup language. Notes can include files and images, and can be linked to other notes within NotePub, or to external websites. Content is organized chronologically and with... |
General purpose | An online notepad that allows for both public and private content. | |||
| OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The... |
Places—Map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... s |
Uses GPS Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites... , aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world |
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| OpenWetWare OpenWetWare OpenWetWare is a wiki whose mission is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research | CC-BY-SA | ||
| PlanetMath PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital... |
Misc—Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... |
Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia | |||
| Pornopedia Pornopedia Pornopedia is a Wiki project about pornography, erotica, sexuality and everything related to it including actors, directors, movies, books and toys.Pornopedia is run by Till Kraemer, a German actor, TV host and former porn actor.- Content :... |
Sexuality | Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography Pornography Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,... and sexuality |
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| Public Computing in Champaign-Urbana | Public computing | A list of public computing resources in Champaign, Illinois Champaign, Illinois Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of... and Urbana, Illinois Urbana, Illinois Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,250. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.... , USA, hosted by www.eBlackCU.net, the Champaign-Urbana African American community heritage archive |
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| Quora Quora Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The site was founded in June 2009, launched in private beta in December 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.... |
General Knowledge | A question-and-answer (Q&A) site Knowledge market A knowledge market is a mechanism for distributing knowledge resources. There are two views on knowledge and how knowledge markets can function. One view uses a legal construct of intellectual property to make knowledge a typical scarce resource, so the traditional commodity market mechanism can be... , similar to Yahoo Answers. |
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| riscos.info Riscos.info riscos.info is a web site for users of the operating system, run by Peter Naulls and John Tytgat. It is a community web site, intended to encourage user involvement. It hosts the FAQ, which was formerly distributed via the comp.sys.acorn.* newsgroups... |
ComputersRISC OS RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England for their range of desktop computers, based on their own ARM architecture. First released in 1987, under the name Arthur, the subsequent iteration was renamed as in 1988... |
Hosts C programming resources and projects | 197 | cc-by 2.5 | |
| Scholarpedia Scholarpedia Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but has features more commonly associated with open-access online academic journals.... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review Peer review Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility... |
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| Sensei's Library Sensei's Library Sensei's Library is an internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of the Wikipedia project on the internet. Sensei's Library was started in September 2000, by the Go players Morten Pahle and Arno... |
Misc—Go (game) | 18,200 | OPL | ||
| ShopWiki ShopWiki ShopWiki is an Internet shopping search engine founded in 2005 and launched in early 2006. It was founded by the former DoubleClick CEO Kevin P. Ryan, the former CTO and DoubleClick co-founder Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Their primary distinguisher is crawling the internet for stores... |
Misc—Products Product (business) In general, the product is defined as a "thing produced by labor or effort" or the "result of an act or a process", and stems from the verb produce, from the Latin prōdūce ' lead or bring forth'. Since 1575, the word "product" has referred to anything produced... |
A shopping wiki and product comparison search engine featuring buying guides and shopping resources | |||
| SKYbrary SKYbrary SKYbrary is a wiki created by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online. It was launched in May 2008 on a platform... |
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| SNPedia SNPedia SNPedia is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms . Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP... |
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 | CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 | |
| SourceWatch SourceWatch SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy... |
Social—Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.... |
Formerly Disinfopedia, discusses propaganda and includes organizations that seek to influence public opinion | GFDL | ||
| Stadtwiki Karlsruhe Stadtwiki Karlsruhe The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is a City wiki of the German town Karlsruhe and its surroundings, which is the largest in the world.- History :It was founded by the former pupil Hauke Löffler on the 22nd of Juli 2004... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual city wiki City wiki A city wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. The term 'city wiki' or its foreign language equivalent is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. A city wiki contains information about... for Karlsruhe Karlsruhe The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states... |
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| The Student Room The Student Room The Student Room , known from 2001 until 2004 as UK Learning, is a United Kingdom-based internet forum for school and university students... |
Place—UK University and student Student A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English... life |
Offers UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses | |||
| Susning.nu Susning.nu Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Swedish |
A Swedish language Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... encyclopedia, which competes with Swedish Wikipedia Swedish Wikipedia The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia... |
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| SWiK SWiK SWiK.net is an open-access wiki created by SourceLabs to document open source software. Swik.net publishes articles on software development of open source projects. The software used was independently written by SourceLabs. SWiK also allows for syndication of RSS feeds which enables rapid... |
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| TermWiki TermWiki TermWiki.com is a major social learning network that allows users to learn, discover, share, and store personal terms and glossaries in 1487 domains in 97 languages. The site emphasizes collaboration, with a forum, a question/answer module, messaging features that encourage user interaction, and... |
Words in different languages | A social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. | 1,417,806 | ||
| Travellerspoint Travellerspoint Travellerspoint is a social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers. Members of the site participate through forums, blogs, photo galleries and a wiki travel guide.- Major Features :... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel | 2,400 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| TV Tropes TV Tropes TV Tropes is a wiki which collects and expands on various conventions and devices found within creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to also covering those in a number of other media such as literature, comics, video-games,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Focuses on documenting tropes Trope (literature) A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning... in various media |
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| Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia Uncyclopedia is a satirical website that parodies Wikipedia. Founded in 2005 as an originally English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 75 languages... |
Satire—Parody Parody A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation... |
A satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody | 134,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 | |
| Vikidia Vikidia Vikidia is an online encyclopedia wiki for children, that runs on MediaWiki software. It is available in both French and Spanish. The site focuses on presenting articles readable by children from eight to thirteen years of age, as well as providing a resource for those learning Spanish and French... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... /Spanish and French |
A Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... and French language French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... encyclopedia for children ages 8–13 |
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| Wikia Wikia Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki... |
Miscellaneous | Online games, movies | 105,000 | ||
| WikiAnswers WikiAnswers WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions.This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and fundamentals, allowing communal ownership and editing of content. Each question has a "living"... |
General knowledge | Compiles answers to questions posed | 11,265,000 | Copyrighted | |
| Wikibooks Wikibooks Wikibooks is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.... |
General—textbook Textbook A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions... s |
A wikimedia project | 115,200 | CC-BY-SA/other | |
| WikiCandidate WikiCandidate WikiCandidate is a wiki designed to collaboratively create a virtual political campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. Begun by students and faculty at the Cornell University Department of Communication, its content is intended to be a tool for understanding what characteristics the... |
Fictional presidential campaign Political campaign A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendums are decided... |
A virtual campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. A project of Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... . |
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| Wikicollecting Wikicollecting Wikicollecting is a wiki-based open-source encyclopedia covering all areas of antiques and collectables. It is built through an international collaboration of collectors and experts, and encourages users to submit, edit, update and expand articles for future generations of collectors.The site... |
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
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. | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 | ||
| wikiHow WikiHow wikiHow is a web-based and wiki-based community, consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow's mission is to build the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual. The site started as an extension of the already existing eHow website, and has evolved to host over 127,000... |
General instruction | A how-to manual | 105,000 | CC-by-nc-sa 2.5 | |
| WikiMapia Wikimapia WikiMapia is a privately owned, online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth. Users may currently use this information for free... |
Places—On-line map Map A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.... |
Combines Google Maps with a wiki system; currently supports 35 languages | |||
| Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.... |
Misc—Electronic media Electronic media Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form... |
A repository of free electronic media; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA and other | ||
| Wikinews Wikinews Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an... |
General—News News News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :... |
Collaborative news service, a wikimedia project | CC-BY | ||
| Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... |
Encyclopedic Encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.... |
Multilingual MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... project |
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| WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas WikiPilipinas is an online, free content website which bills itself as a combination "non-academic encyclopedia", web portal, directory and almanac for Philippine-based knowledge. Like Wikipedia, it contains various articles on Philippine-related topics... |
Place—The Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
A combined non-academic encyclopedia, web portal Web portal A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way.... , directory Directory (databases) Generally, a directory, as used in computing and telephony, refers to a repository or database of information which is heavily optimized for reading, under the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads... and almanac Almanac An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc... for Philippine-based knowledge |
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| Wikiquote Wikiquote Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books,... |
Reference—Quotation Quotation A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any... s |
A quote repository, a wikimedia project | 90,200 | CC-BY-SA | |
| Wikisource Wikisource Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has... |
Reference—Primary source Primary source Primary source is a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.... s |
Dedicated to use on Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... ; a wikimedia project |
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| Wikispecies Wikispecies Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species and is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public... |
Science—Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... |
A directory of species Species In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are... ; wikimedia project |
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| Wikitravel Wikitravel -External links:* *... |
Places—Travel Travel Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:... |
A travel guide using wikimedia's software, but otherwise unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. 20 supported languages | 48,000 | CC-BY-SA 1.0 | |
| Wikiversity Wikiversity Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project, which supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of learning, rather than... |
General—Self-directed learning | Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a wikimedia project | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | ||
| WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first... |
Computer programming Computer programming Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a... , specifically design patterns Design pattern (computer science) In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that... |
World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) | 34,997 | GPL | |
| Wiktionary Wiktionary Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages... |
Multilingual dictionary | ||||
| Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio Whole Wheat Radio was a listener-controlled, internet-only webcast and Mediawiki wiki based in Talkeetna, Alaska, centered around independent music aired 24 hours a day, that was financially and operationally maintained by an all-volunteer community as a grassroots alternative to mainstream media... |
Music—Indie music | An online community radio station featuring independent music | |||
| Wookieepedia Wookieepedia Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information on all six films, as well as The Clone Wars and the Expanded Universe... |
Fiction—Star Wars Star Wars Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year... |
Science fiction Science fiction Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... encyclopedia |
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| WoWWiki WoWWiki - External links :*... |
Gaming—Warcraft Warcraft Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the... |
Contains in-universe material; migrated to Wowpedia in 2010 | 91,521 (WoWWiki); (Wowpedia) | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | |
| ZineWiki ZineWiki ZineWiki is an open-source online wiki devoted to zines, fanzines, small press publications, chapbooks, and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.-History:... |
Social—Independent media Independent media Independent media refers to any form of media, such as radio, television, newspapers or the Internet, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications... |
A zine Zine A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier.... encyclopedia |
See also
- History of wikisHistory of wikisThe history of wikis dates from 1994, when Ward Cunningham invented the concept and gave it its name . c2.com thus became the first wiki, or a website with pages that can be edited via the browser, with a version history for each page...
- List of biological wikis
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of wiki software
- NupediaNupediaNupedia was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief...
, a defunct, expert-based precursor to Wikipedia - UseModWikiUseModWikiUseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...
- Wiki farmWiki farmA wiki hosting service or wiki farm is a server or an array of servers that offer users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis...
- Wiki softwareWiki softwareWiki software is collaborative software that runs a wiki, i.e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers...
- List of MediaWiki wikis
External links
- meta:Interwiki map
- meta:List of largest wikis
- WikiIndex—wikis ranked by size, popularity, usage
- A complete list of Wikia community sites