List of wikis

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

Compilations

• Citizendium - an encyclopedia that bars anonymous editing and uses specialists as editors for particular subjects
• Knol - A compilation from Google; announced, but not yet implemented
• Wikia - (formerly Wikicities) A wiki farm hosting wikis for various online communities
• Wikinfo – a Wikipedia fork using a sympathetic rather than neutral point of view
• Wikipedia – a general encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics

Computers

• MeatballWiki – discusses online communities
• OSBIWiki – a wiki focused on Open Source Business Intelligence.
• UseModWiki – first wiki running UseModWiki WikiEngine and originally dedicated to the "Usenet Moderation Project"
• WikiWikiWeb – the world's oldest wiki, dedicated to computer programming
• Javapedia - a wiki focussed on developing an online encyclopedia of Java (Sun)

Culture and entertainment

• A Million Penguins – a collaboratively-written novel
• Battlestar Wiki - a Battlestar Galactica-related encyclopedia
• Bulbapedia - a Pokémon-related encyclopedia
• International Music Score Library Project – 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 wiki containing canon-only material
• Memory Beta - second Star Trek wikis containing non-canon material
• WikiFur - a furry wiki
• Wookieepedia – a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia
• ZineWiki – a zine encyclopedia

Directories

• AboutUs.org – a wiki about Web sites

Education

• Wikiversity - dedicated to supporting free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners
• Scholarpedia- A small wiki, with less than 100 articles, that is written by professionals in their field. For example, their article on fractals is written by the world expert in that field
• WikiAfterDark - a sex education wiki
• WikiTimeScale – an interactive graphical illustration of history

Geographic

• City Wiki – a wiki used for geographically localized information
• DavisWiki - a wiki about the city of Davis, California
• Galbijim Wiki – a wiki devoted to expats in South Korea
• 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

How-to manual

• wikiHow – an online how-to manual

Political

• Conservapedia – an encyclopedia wiki with a Christian conservativism viewpoint

Other languages

• Baidu Baike – Chinese web encyclopedia
• Enciclopedia Libre – a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia
• Susning.nu – Swedish language encyclopedia, a competitor with Swedish Wikipedia
• WikiZnanie – a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license

Products

• ShopWiki – shopping wiki and product comparison search engine features buying guides and helpful shopping resources

Recreational

• Sensei's Library - a site dealing with the ancient oriental game of Go
• Uncyclopedia – a satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody

Religion

• WikiChristian - encyclopedia and discussion forum dedicated to Christianity

Science and technology

• Dispersive PDE Wiki – a wiki concerned with the well-posedness of various non-linear dispersive and wave equations
• OpenWetWare – a wiki that promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research
• Palaeos – a paleontology and history of earth knowledge base

Search engine

• AskWiki - A natural language search engine combined with a wiki-based answer community

Sister projects

The Wikimedia Foundation sponsors a variety of wiki-style projects with diverse goals. Notable projects include:

• Wikiversity – an online learning program
• Wiktionary – a multilingual dictionary
• Wikibooks – a collection of textbooks
• Wikinews – a collaborative news service
• Wikiquote – a quote repository
• Wikisource – a collection of primary sources for use in Wikipedia
• Wikispecies – a directory of species

Societal

• Congresspedia, a separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch – an encyclopedia about the U.S. Congress
• Intellipedia – a classified, non-accessible wiki running the top-secret network that links the U.S. intelligence community
• Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law, in multiple languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish
• MemoryArchive (formerly MemoryWiki) – a collection of 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 UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses
• Wikileaks – a wiki that allows people to leak official government documents anonymously

Travel

• WikiMapia – online map resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system; currently supports 35 languages
• Wikitravel – a wiki-style travel guide (unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation)
• World66 – a travel-based wiki

Alphabetical list of wiki communities

• Battlestar Wiki - a Battlestar Galactica-related encyclopedia
• BOWiki – a collaborative ontology curation framework and gene function editor
• Conservapedia – a socially conservative encyclopedia, dedicating to pointing out a perceived "liberal bias" in Wikipedia
• Enciclopedia Libre – a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia
• IMSLP – a wiki library of public domain music scores
• Intellipedia, a classified wiki not accessible to to the public that runs on a top-secret network linking the U.S. intelligence community
• Javapedia - a wiki dedicated to an online encyclopedia of the Java (Sun) platform
• Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law in several languages
• Knol - A wiki-like technology from Google; announced, but not yet implemented
• Lostpedia- A wiki dedicated to all things "Lost" TV show related
• MeatballWiki – discusses online communities
• Memory Alpha – a Star Trek-related encyclopedia
• OpenWetWare – a wiki that promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research
• OSBIWiki – a wiki focusing on open source business intelligence software
• PhpWiki – a wiki devoted to PHP software
• 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"
• Wikibooks – textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia
• WikiFur - a furry wiki
• 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 using a sympathetic rather than neutral point of view
• Wikipedia – the world's largest on-line, publicly editable encyclopedia
• Wikiquote – a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia
• Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia
• WikiTimeScale – an interactive graphical illustration of history
• 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
• Wikiversity - dedicated to on-line learning
• 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
• Wookieepedia – a Star Wars encyclopedia
• World66 – a travel-based wiki

Wiki-like systems

• Bliki – "wikilog," a blog system organized as a wiki that includes SnipSnap
• Everything2 – a wikilike project for essays
• PlanetMath – a free Wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia
• TWiki - an enterprise and structured wiki

See also

• Wiki software
• Wiki farm
• Comparison of wiki farms
• History of wikis

External links

• meta:Interwiki map
• meta:List of largest wikis
• WikiIndex.org – a wiki of wiki and new wikis
• wikindex.com - a wiki statistics board
• A complete list of Wikia community sites
• [1] A free wiki site