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 – a novel that was 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.
- Wookieepedia – a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia.
- ZineWiki – a zine encyclopedia.
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.
Reference
- Baidu Baike – Chinese web encyclopedia
- Citizendium - an online wiki-based encyclopedia that does not allow anonymous editing and has an "editor" role for specialists in particular subjects.
- 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 – a general Encyclopedia covering a wide range topics.
- 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.
- Wikia - (formerly Wikicities) A wiki farm hosting wikis for various online communities.
- Wikitravel - comprehensive travel guide website; a sister project of Wikipedia.
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.
- Unilang – an online community and database dedicated to languages, linguistics, and language acquisition.
Computers
- 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.
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 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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - Wiki-like software sometimes used by software companies