List of wikis

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This is an incomplete list of wikis (sites based on the wiki model) of comparative notability. More exhaustive lists can be found on directory sites; see the external links section below.

Wiki communities by topic

Geographic

• City Wiki – a wiki used for geographically localized information
• Galbijim Wiki – a wiki devoted to expats in South Korea.

Science and technology

• Dispersive PDE Wiki – A wiki concerned with the well-posedness of various non-linear dispersive and wave equations.
• Palaeos.org – a paleontology and history of earth knowledge base.
• OpenWetWare – a wiki that promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research.
• Unilang – an online community and database dedicated to languages, linguistics, and language acquisition.

Computers

• Javapedia – a wiki focused on all aspects of the Java platform.
• Mac Guide – a wiki about Apple Mac issues, run by MacRumors.com.
• MeatballWiki – discusses online communities ("meatballs")
• UseModWiki – first wiki running UseModWiki WikiEngine and originally dedicated to the "Usenet Moderation Project"
• WikiWikiWeb – Ward Cunningham's wiki, the world's oldest (March 1995). Devoted to computer programming.
• WikiServer – a wiki focused on the development of a self-contained wiki-engine.

Reference

• Baidu Baike – Chinese web encyclopedia
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español – a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia.
• Susning.nu – Swedish language encyclopedia, dictionary, and discussion forum. A competitor with the Swedish Wikipedia.
• Wikibooks – textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikinews – A collaborative news service; sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikinfo – a fork of Wikipedia, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of view.
• Wikipedia – the world's largest Encyclopedia.
• Wikiquote – a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikispecies – a directory of species. A sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikiversity – an online learning program; a sister project of Wikipedia.
• WikiZnanie – a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license.
• Wiktionary – a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia.

Societal

• Congresspedia, a separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch – an encyclopedia about the U.S. Congress.
• Intellipedia – a classified wiki that runs the top-secret network that links the U.S. intelligence community. It is not accessible to the public.
• Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law. At present, it exists in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish editions.
• MemoryWiki – A place to collect people's personal accounts of historical events.
• SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia) – a wiki about propaganda, including organizations that seek to influence public opinion.
• The Student Room – a student resource wiki offering revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life, UK universities and courses.
• Wikileaks – a wiki that allows people to leak official government documents anonymously.
• Wikocracy – allows users to re-write the Constitution of the United States of America, the USA PATRIOT Act, Roe v. Wade, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or any law they feel needs changing

Culture and the arts

• A Million Penguins – a novel being written collaboratively.
• IMSLP – a wiki library of public domain music scores.
• Lostpedia – a wiki dedicated to the LOST television series.
• LyricWiki – a wiki listing lyrics by album.
• Memory Alpha – a Star Trek-related encyclopedia.
• Scifipedia – a commercial science fiction encyclopedia.
• The TV IV – A user-edited compedium of television knowledge.
• Wookieepedia – a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia.
• ZineWiki – a zine and zinester encyclopedia.

Recreational

• Uncyclopedia – MUCH BETTER THAN WIKIPEDIA (WITHOUT THE SHITTY CENSORSHIP).
• Wipipedia – Wiki for fetishists and those for a BDSM lifestyle.

Travel

• SkipperGuide wiki-based cruising guide available in German and English.
• Wikimapia – online map resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system. 35 languages currently supported.
• Wikitravel – a travel guide, organized as a wiki, inspired in part by Wikipedia, but not part of Wikimedia.
• World66 – a travel-based wiki.

Directories

• AboutUs.org – a wiki about Web sites.

Political or religious doctrine-based

• Orthodoxwiki – an Orthodox Christianity wiki
• CreationWiki – a wiki about Creation science [1]
• Theopedia – a wiki about Calvinism
• Conservapedia – an encyclopedia wiki with a Christian conservativism viewpoint

Alphabetical list of wiki communities

• BOWiki – a collaborative ontology curation framework and gene function editor
• Conservapedia – a conservative encyclopedia
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español – a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia.
• IMSLP – a wiki library of public domain music scores
• Intellipedia, a classified wiki that runs a top-secret network that links the U.S. intelligence community. It is not accessible to the public.
• Javapedia – a wiki focused on all aspects of the Java platform.
• Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law in several languages
• Mac Guide – a wiki about Apple Mac issues, run by MacRumors.com.
• MeatballWiki – discusses online communities ("meatballs")
• Memory Alpha – a Star Trek-related encyclopedia.
• OpenWetWare – a wiki that promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research.
• PhpWiki – a wiki devoted to PHP software.
• Scifipedia – a commercial science fiction encyclopedia.
• SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia) – a wiki about propaganda, including organizations that seek to influence public opinion.
• Susning.nu – Swedish language encyclopedia, dictionary, and discussion forum. A competitor with the Swedish Wikipedia.
• The Student Room – contains a student resource wiki offering revision notes, example university personal statements, and information on UK universities and courses.
• TWiki – community wiki about wikis in general, and to develop, document, package and support the TWiki enterprise collaboration platform
• Uncyclopedia – a satirical parody of Wikipedia
• UseModWiki – first wiki running UseModWiki WikiEngine and originally dedicated to the "Usenet Moderation Project"
• Wikiasari – a search engine organized as a wiki
• Wikibooks – textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wiki Game – a game played through internal links
• Wikihow – a wiki that explains how to do things.
• Wikimapia – a wiki using Google Maps. Users can pinpoint city landmarks.
• Wikinews – a collabrative news service; sister project of Wikipedia
• Wikinfo – a fork of Wikipedia, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of view.
• Wikipedia – the world's largest Encyclopedia.
• Wikiquote – a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wikitravel – a multi-language travel guide, organized as a wiki, inspired in part by Wikipedia.
• Wikitruth – a wiki dedicated to pointing out "atrocities" in Wikipedia
• WikiWikiWeb – Ward Cunningham's programming wiki, the world's oldest (March 1995).
• WikiZnanie – a Russian language encyclopedia.
• Wiktionary – a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia.
• Wipipedia – Wiki for fetishists and those for a BDSM lifestyle.
• Wookieepedia – a Star Wars encyclopedia
• World66 – a travel-based wiki.

Wiki-like systems

• Bliki – "wikilog," a blog system organized as a wiki. It includes SnipSnap.
• Everything2 – a wikilike project for essays.
• PlanetMath – a free Wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia.
• Wiktory – a wiki-like directory software

See also

• Wiki software
• Wiki farm
• Comparison of wiki farms

External links

• meta:Interwiki map
• meta:List of largest wikis
• WikiIndex – a wiki of wiki
• A complete Wiki Database