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 by topic

Culture and the arts

• A Million Penguins – novel that was written collaboratively.
• Wikifur - a furry wiki
• 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-related encyclopedia.
• Wookieepedia – a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia.
• ZineWiki – a zine encyclopedia.
• DavisWiki - a wiki about the city of Davis, California

Directories

• AboutUs.org – a wiki about Web sites.

Geographic

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

Political

• Conservapedia – an encyclopedia wiki with a Christian conservativism viewpoint

Recreational

• Uncyclopedia – a satirical parody-style encyclopedia.
• Sensei's Library - a site dealing with the ancient oriental game of Go.
• Wookieepedia - a website dedicated to the Star Wars universe.
• Memory Alpha and Memory Beta - twin Star Trek wikis, one for canon material, the other for non-canon.

Reference

• Citizendium - an online wiki-based encyclopedia that does not allow anonymous editing and has an "editor" role for specialists in particular subjects.
• 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
• Wikinfo – a fork of Wikipedia, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of view.
• Wikipedia – a general encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics.
• WikiTimeScale – an interactive graphical illustration of history.
• Wikia - (formerly Wikicities) A wiki farm hosting wikis for various online communities.
• Wikitravel - comprehensive travel guide website; using the MediaWiki software.
• 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.
• Agepedia - Encyclopaedia Americana 1851 wiki.

Sister projects

• Wikiversity – an online learning program.
• Wiktionary – a multilingual Dictionary project.
• Wikibooks – textbooks.
• Wikinews – A collaborative news service.
• Wikiquote – a quote repository.
• Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia.
• Wikispecies – a directory of species.

Other languages

• 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.
• WikiZnanie – a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license.

Religion

• WikiChristian - An encyclopedia and discussion forum for Christians to share their faith.

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.org – a paleontology and history of earth knowledge base.

Search Engine

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

Computers

• MeatballWiki – discusses online communities ("meatballs")
• OSBIWiki – a wiki focused on Open Source Business Intelligence.
• 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.
• Javapedia - a wiki focussed on developing an online encyclopedia of Java Platform.

Societal

• Congresspedia, a separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch – an encyclopedia about the U.S. Congress.
• Intellipedia – a classified wiki that runs on 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.
• MemoryArchive (formerly 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 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. 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.

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 on a top-secret network that links the U.S. intelligence community. It is not accessible to the public.
• Javapedia - a wiki focussed on developing an online encyclopedia of Java Platform.
• Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law in several languages
• Lostpedia- A wiki dedicated to all things "Lost" TV show related.
• 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.
• 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, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of views.
• 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.
• 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
• 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. It includes SnipSnap.
• Everything2 – a wikilike project for essays.
• PlanetMath – a free Wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia.
• TWiki - an enterprise wiki 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