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Table

Name Focus Notes Articles License
A Million Penguins Fiction—collaboratively-written novel 491[1] Copyrighted
AboutUs.org Internet directory Initially pre-populated with information about many different websites. Uses MediaWiki software, but now largely with Ruby on Rails 17,611,146 GFDL and CC-BY-SA
Appropedia English, French, German, Spanish Sustainable development, including appropriate technology merging with several other wikis 4,184[2] CC-BY-SA 3.0
Baidu Baike Encyclopedic/Chinese A Chinese encyclopedia 2,878,123[3] Copyrighted
Ballotpedia Informative An interactive almanac of state politics. 192,927[4] GFDL
Biographicon Misc—Biographies of people A directory of personal profiles Unknown
Catawiki Catalogues Originally in Dutch, with English version. Collectors specific for comics, coins, stamps, trading cards, board games, model cars, model trains, bank notes, books, watches, Disney memoriablia, clocks and other. 200,000
CineWiki FILM The free film encyclopedia. 16,225
Citizendium Encyclopedic Requires real names; guided by expert input while allowing edits from the general public 15,308[5] CC-by-sa 3.0
CoalSwarm Anti-coal information clearinghouse Joint project of SourceWatch and Center for Media and Democracy 4,000[6]
Congresspedia Government—United States Congress A separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch, since moved to OpenCongress CC-BY-SA 3.0
Conservapedia Encyclopedia Information and articles are written from a conservative Christian viewpoint aimed at correcting the alleged liberal bias of Wikipedia. 33,100[7] Copyrighted (free use)
DavisWiki Place—Davis, California A city wiki dedicated solely to Davis; at one point the largest city wiki 15,593[3] CC-by 3.0
Diplopedia Government—Diplomacy Encyclopedia of the U.S. Department of State collecting items related to international relations and diplomacy
EcuRed 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[8]
Ekopedia Multilingual—Encyclopedic Environmental sustainability merging with Appropedia. CC-BY-SA 3.0
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español Encyclopedic/Spanish A Spanish language fork of Wikipedia 47,281[9] CC-BY-SA 3.0
Encyclopedia Dramatica Satire of Internet memes A satirical wiki 7,400[10] Fair use
English Wikipedia Encyclopedic Public access, most prominent English wiki 3,889,237[11] CC-BY-SA
Everything2 Personal essays A wiki-like project for essays 273,900[12] Copyrighted
Foodista.com Reference—Food and Cooking A Creative Commons structured wiki about foods, recipes, and other culinary information. CC-BY
Fringepedia Fiction—Fringe
Galaxiki Fictional galaxy Dedicated to the creation of a fictional galaxy GFDL[13]
GCPEDIA Government Internal Government of Canada Wiki
GeoNames Places A geographical database that links specific names with unique features
Geo-wiki Global land cover maps The Geo-Wiki Project is to help improve the quality of global land cover maps.
Heroes Wiki Fiction—Heroes CC-NC-ND
Hudong (互动百科) Encyclopedic Largest Chinese wiki. Social Networking features. Chinese language only 3,920,000[14] Copyrighted
Intellipedia Government—Intelligence Three non-accessible wikis running on networks that link the U.S. intelligence community
International Music Score Library Project Music A wiki library of public domain musical scores 14,800[15] GFDL
Javapedia Computers—Java An online encyclopedia for developing Java 790[16] Creative Commons
Judgepedia Informative An interactive encyclopedia of courts and judges. 131,112[17] GFDL
Jurispedia Government—Law A multi-lingual academic encyclopedia, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish CC-NC
Knol General purpose A wiki-like technology from Google 100,000[18] CC-by 3.0
Lostpedia Fiction—Lost Articles about episodes, characters, themes, etc. in the television show. 7,248[19] CC BY-NC-ND
LyricWiki Music—Lyrics A listing of lyrics by album 1,147,000[20] Mostly copyrighted. CC-BY-SA for minority of content.
Marjorie Wiki Encyclopedic Marjorie-Wiki is a web site containing articles deleted from German Wikipedia and is involved in the project "Other Wikis" 41.375[21] CC-BY-SA
Medpedia Encyclopedic Medical/health Requires real names; guided by medical expert input while allowing edits from the general public CC-BY-SA
MeatballWiki Communities—Online communities 4,900[22] Copyrighted
Memory Alpha Fiction—Star Trek Contains canon-only material 33,141[23] CC-NC 2.5
MetaBase database of biological databases 1000 biological databases and over 800 'web services', more than 50 'user-contributed' databases 1,800 BioLicense and MetaBase:Copyrights
Metapedia Encyclopedia A white nationalist and extreme right-wing online encyclopedia. 87,521[23] (Hungarian Language version) unknown
MyWikiBiz Misc—Business directory Allows people and enterprises to write about themselves 11,475[24] GFDL and other[25]
NotePub General purpose An online notepad that allows for both public and private content.
OpenStreetMap Places—Maps Uses GPS, aerial photography and other free sources of images to create a map of the world CC-BY-SA 2.0
OpenWetWare Science—Biology Promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research CC-BY-SA
PlanetMath Misc—Mathematics Free wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia
Pornopedia Sexuality Multilingual encyclopedia about pornography and sexuality[26] 15,447[27]
(German version) 		Copyrighted
Quora General Knowledge A question-and-answer (Q&A) site, similar to Yahoo Answers. Revocable no-derivatives license[28]
riscos.info Computers—RISC OS Hosts C programming resources and projects 197[29] cc-by 2.5
Scholarpedia Encyclopedic Written exclusively by professionals focusing on their field of expertise; subject to peer review 1,619[30] Copyrighted
Sensei's Library Misc—Go (game) 18,200 OPL
ShopWiki Misc—Products A shopping wiki and product comparison search engine featuring buying guides and shopping resources
SKYbrary Aviation safety information
SNPedia 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[31] CC-by-nc-sa 3.0
SourceWatch Social—Propaganda Formerly Disinfopedia, discusses propaganda and includes organizations that seek to influence public opinion GFDL
Stadtwiki Karlsruhe Encyclopedic Multilingual city wiki for Karlsruhe 21,157[32] CC-BY-NC-SA
Susning.nu Encyclopedic/Swedish A Swedish language encyclopedia, which competes with Swedish Wikipedia Copyrighted
SWiK Computers—Open source software
TermWiki Words in different languages A social learning network built around terms and questions in 75 languages. 1,417,806[33]
The Student Room Place—UK University and student life Offers UK university guides, revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life and university courses
Tolkien Gateway Tolkien encyclopedia 9891 GNU-FDL
Travellerspoint Places—Travel A social networking site dedicated to sharing stories and recommendations about travel 2,400[34] CC-BY-SA 3.0
TV Tropes Encyclopedic Focuses on documenting tropes in various media CC-BY-SA 3.0
Uncyclopedia Satire—Parody A satirical encyclopedia dedicated to parody 134,000[35] CC-by-nc-sa 2.0
Vikidia Encyclopedic/Spanish and French A Spanish and French language encyclopedia for children ages 8–13 GFDL/CC-BY-SA
Wikia A hosting service for wikis: Wiki farm Focus on entertainment and gaming wikis. 9,722,480[36]
WikiAnswers General knowledge Compiles answers to questions posed 11,265,000[37] Copyrighted
Wikibooks General—textbooks A wikimedia project 115,200[38] CC-BY-SA/other
WikiCandidate Fictional presidential campaign A virtual campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. A project of Cornell University.
Wikicollecting Encyclopedia 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. 2,000 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
WikiEducator Open educational resources Open educational resources which anyone may use, adapt, and share 110,872[39] CC-BY-SA, and CC-BY
wikiHow General instruction A how-to manual 133,000[40] CC-by-nc-sa 2.5
WikiMapia Places—On-line map Combines Google Maps with a wiki system for polygonally defined areas; currently supports 35 languages 13,300,000 CC by-nc-sa[41]
Wikimedia Commons Misc—Electronic media A repository of free electronic media; a wikimedia project CC-BY-SA and other
Wikinews General—News Collaborative news service, a wikimedia project CC-BY
Wikipedia Encyclopedic Multilingual MediaWiki project 18,000,000 CC-BY-SA
Wikiquote Reference—Quotations A quote repository, a wikimedia project 90,200[42] CC-BY-SA
Wikisource Reference—Primary sources Dedicated to use on Wikipedia; a wikimedia project 586,400[43] CC-BY-SA
Wikispecies Science—Biology A directory of species; wikimedia project 248,844 GFDL/CC-BY-SA
Wikitravel Places—Travel A travel guide using wikimedia's software, but otherwise unconnected to the Wikimedia Foundation. 20 supported languages 48,000[44] CC-BY-SA 1.0
Wikiversity General—Self-directed learning Supports free learning communities, projects, materials, and learners; a wikimedia project CC-BY-SA 3.0
WikiWikiWeb Computer programming, specifically design patterns World's oldest wiki (began circa 1995) 34,997[3] GPL
Wiktionary Multilingual dictionary
Whole Wheat Radio Music—Indie music An online community radio station featuring independent music
Wookieepedia Fiction—Star Wars Science fiction encyclopedia 85,215[45] CC-BY-SA
WoWWiki Gaming—Warcraft Contains in-universe material; migrated to Wowpedia in 2010 91,521[46] (WoWWiki); 93,515[47] (Wowpedia) CC-BY-SA 3.0
ZineWiki Social—Independent media A zine encyclopedia


See also

Meta has related information at: List of largest wikis

References

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  2. ^ Appropedia:Special:Statistics
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  4. ^ Ballotpedia Statistics retrieved 1/25/12, 11:02am CT
  5. ^ Citizendium - Category:CZ Live lists the number of clusters. Citizendium also contains subpages: see Citizendium - Special:Statistics for details.
  6. ^ Cameron Scott, interview with Ted Nace, San Francisco Chronicle, March 13 2009 The Anti-Coal Movement's SF Nerve Center. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
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  12. ^ "General Everything2 Statistics, General E2 Statistics". Surveytome.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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  45. ^ "Statistics - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki". Starwars.wikia.com. 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  46. ^ "Statistics - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft". WoWWiki. 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  47. ^ "Statistics - Wowpedia - Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft". Wowpedia. 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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