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By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes: - Wikimedia - FANDOM - Gamepedia - Miraheze
by load 6y ago
By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes:
- Wikimedia
- FANDOM
- Gamepedia
- Miraheze
FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki.
Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough.
[1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&oldid=1742190 https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016)
[2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)
- iamacyborg 6y agoGamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.
- hadrien01 6y agoThey're apparently working hard to upgrade and merge their diverging MediaWiki codebases; some details on this very interesting blogpost: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/Unified_Community_Platform:_The_Vision,_Purpose,_and_Process https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/...
- iamacyborg 6y agoNeat, I actually sold a wiki to Curse pre-Gamepedia and worked there for a short while. Not very happy to see a single company gobble up so much of the online gaming community.
- bawolff 6y ago> Excluding WikiHow WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/ https://src.wikihow.com/ But there certainly exist other wikis and wiki-like projects that dont. MDN and OWASP wiki are prominent examples that moved away from mediawiki. I think mediawiki has most of the mass-collabotation market, but there is much more competition in the open-source project documentation niche (which people often use wikis for) and corporate knowledge base market. P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)