List of wikis
This is not a complete list of wikis (sites based on the wiki model); only wikis with their own entry in Wikipedia are listed here. See External links for links to wiki directory sites.
General interest wiki communities (including for specific languages)
- 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.
- Wikia - Wiki hosting service founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley
- WikiZnanie is a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license.
Wikimedia hosted sites
- Wikibooks - textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia.
- Wikinews - a collaborative news service; sister project of Wikipedia
- 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.
- Wikitravel - a reliable world travel guide.
- Wikiversity - an online learning program; a sister project of Wikipedia.
- Wiktionary - a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia.
Wiki communities by geographic location
- Galbijim Wiki - A wiki devoted to expats in South Korea.
Wiki communities by topic
Science and technology
Science & mathematics
- 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.
Medicine and Physiology
- Ganfyd - Get A Note From Your Doctor - a medical wiki written by registered medical doctors.
Linguistics
- Unilang - an online community and database dedicated to languages, linguistics, and language acquisition.
- Langmaker - a database of constructed languages
Computers and information
- Javapedia - a wiki focused on all aspects of the Java platform.
- Linuxquestions.org - a wiki for questions and answers pertaining to the Linux software.
- 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 his "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.
- Relicodia - Reliable Software encyclopedia of Microsoft Windows API.
Business
Small Business
- SmallBusiness.com - a wiki for those who own and run small businesses.
Reference
Original source material
- Wikiquote - a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia.
- Wikisource - Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia.
Encyclopedic
- Baidu Baike
- 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.
- 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.
Informational Books
- Wikibooks - textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia.
News
- Wikinews - A collaborative news service; sister project of Wikipedia.
Language
- Wiktionary - a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia.
Personal and societal
Educational
- The Student Room - a student resource wiki offering revision notes, examples of university personal statements and inforation on student life, UK universities and courses.
Psychological, linguistic, and social sciences
- Integralwiki - a wiki exploring all aspects of Integral theory.
Politics, society, military, law, history
- dKosopedia - a left-leaning political wiki, for the website.
- 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.
- Congresspedia, a separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch - an encyclopedia about Congress.
- 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
- Wikileaks - An uncensurable version of Wikipedia, created so that people can leak official government documents safely.
Culture and the arts
Film
- Wookieepedia - a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia.
Literature
Music
- LyricWiki - a wiki listing lyrics by album
Television
- Lostpedia - a wiki dedicated to the LOST television series.
- Memory Alpha - a Star Trek-related encyclopedia.
- The TV IV - A user-edited compedium of television knowledge.
- ZimWiki - A Wiki site containing lots of information about Invader Zim.
Recreational
Games
- Encyclopedia Gamia - a wiki about computer and video games, as well as board, card and pen & paper games.
- Sensei's Library - dedicated to the game of Go.
Humor
- Uncyclopedia - an encyclopedia of politically incorrect non-someinformation.
Sex
- Wipipedia - Wiki for fetishists and those for a BDSM lifestyle.
Travel
- World66 - a travel-based wiki.
- Wikitravel - a travel guide, organized as a wiki, inspired in part by Wikipedia. Currently (December 2004) available in English, French, German, Romanian, and Swedish.
- SkipperGuide wiki-based cruising guide available in German and English.
Wiki-like systems
- Bliki - "wikilog," a blog system organized as a wiki. It includes SnipSnap.
- Ekşi Sözlük - a Turkish dictionary project.
- Everything2 - a wikilike project for essays.
- PlanetMath - a free Wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia.
- Wiktory - a wiki-like directory software
Wiki communities (listed alphabetically)
- Encyclopedia Gamia - A wiki about computer and video games, as well as board, card and pen & paper games.
- Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español - a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia.
- 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. At present, it exists in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish editions.
- 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.
- Sensei's Library - dedicated to the game of Go.
- SmallBusiness.com - a wiki for those who own and run small businesses.
- 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 wiki - first wiki running the Perl-based and AtisWiki-derived UseModWiki WikiEngine by Clifford Adams (January 2000) and originally dedicated to his "Usenet Moderation Project" (Usemod); is one of the "SisterSites" of the WikiWikiWeb
- Wikiasari - a search engine organized as a wiki
- Wikibooks - textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia.
- 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 travel guide, organized as a wiki, inspired in part by Wikipedia. Currently (December 2004) available in English, French, German, Romanian, and Swedish.
- Wikitruth - a wiki dedicated to pointing out "atrocities" in Wikipedia
- WikiZnanie - a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license and created in 2003. It uses the MediaWiki software. The name derives from wiki and znanie, Russian for knowledge.
- WikiWikiWeb - Ward Cunningham's wiki, the world's oldest (March 1995). Devoted to computer programming.
- 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.
See also
External links
- meta:Interwiki map
- meta:List of largest wikis
- WikiIndex – a wiki of wiki