A wiki hosting service, or wiki farm, is a server or an array of servers that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.
Prior to wiki farms, someone who wanted to operate a wiki had to install the software and manage the server(s) themselves. With a wiki farm, the farm's administration installs the core wiki code once on its own servers, centrally maintains the servers, and establishes unique space on the servers for the content of each individual wiki with the shared core code executing the functions of each wiki.
Both commercial and non-commercial wiki farms are available for users and online communities. While most of the wiki farms allow anyone to open their own wiki, some impose restrictions. Many wiki farm companies generate revenue through the insertion of advertisements, but often allow payment of a monthly fee as an alternative to accepting ads.
Some examples of wiki hosting services are: Fandom, a for-profit wiki-hosting service created by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling in 2004,[1][2] and Miraheze, a non-profit wiki-hosting service created by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan.[3]
This comparison of wiki hosting services or wiki farms is not comprehensive, it details only those 'notable' enough (in Wikipedia terms) to be included. A useful comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on MediaWiki's site, at mw:Hosting services.
Online services which host wiki-style editable web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist.[4]
All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and several other languages.[citation needed]
Wikitext as used by MediaWiki, Some HTML,[4] JavaScript, Math formula, Lua
Deprecated wiki hostsedit
This section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running.
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This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Wiki hosting service news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message A wiki hosting service or wiki farm is a server or an array of servers that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual independent wikis Prior to wiki farms someone who wanted to operate a wiki had to install the software and manage the server s themselves With a wiki farm the farm s administration installs the core wiki code once on its own servers centrally maintains the servers and establishes unique space on the servers for the content of each individual wiki with the shared core code executing the functions of each wiki Both commercial and non commercial wiki farms are available for users and online communities While most of the wiki farms allow anyone to open their own wiki some impose restrictions Many wiki farm companies generate revenue through the insertion of advertisements but often allow payment of a monthly fee as an alternative to accepting ads Some examples of wiki hosting services are Fandom a for profit wiki hosting service created by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling in 2004 1 2 and Miraheze a non profit wiki hosting service created by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan 3 Contents 1 Comparison of wiki hosting services 1 1 Deprecated wiki hosts 2 Notes 3 References 4 External linksComparison of wiki hosting services editThis comparison of wiki hosting services or wiki farms is not comprehensive it details only those notable enough in Wikipedia terms to be included A useful comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on MediaWiki s site at mw Hosting services Online services which host wiki style editable web pages General characteristics of cost presence of advertising licensing are compared as are technical differences in editing features wiki engine multilingual support and syntax support This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist 4 All the mentioned services have WYSIWYG editing Wiki hosting service Founded Cost Ad supported Content license Subdomain Custom themes Database download backup Other Features Base wiki engine Language Syntax supportConfluence Hosted 2004 Non free a No Plugins SSL file storage permissioning WebDAV WYSIWYG Rich text editor 5 script pluginNo formulasiMeet Central 2005 Non free No Access control full text search calendaring single sign on to multiple projects project templates RSS enabled custom HTML 4 CSS templatingNo formulasOurproject org 2002 Free No 6 Copyleft choice of Creative Commons GNU FDL other licenses Yes Mailing lists FTP SSH ddbb email alias backups CVS SVN forums task management MoinMoin by default custom supported Supports English Spanish French and many other languages PBworks 2005 Non free No Yes Yes No page limits SSL RSS amp Atom email notifications file management page access settings custom All HTML 4 JavaScript LaTeX formulasFandom 2004 Free Yes Creative Commons Yes but not for multilingual wikis Yes Yes Common login and common preferences to all wikis of FANDOM for the same user Blog User Page and User Talk pages for users MediaWiki All languages Wikipedia exists for and some more Community Support in English Chinese German Japanese Spanish Portuguese Italian French and several other languages citation needed Wikitext as used by MediaWiki Some HTML 4 JavaScript Math formula LuaDeprecated wiki hosts edit This section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running WikispacesNotes edit Confluence has no free hosted option but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects References edit About Us Fandom Retrieved 2023 07 11 Chmielewski Dawn 2016 01 25 Wikia Launches Fandom a New Place to Get Your Nerd On Vox Retrieved 2023 07 11 Build Your Own Wiki Platform And Grow Your Community With Miraheze Website Planet Retrieved 2023 07 11 a b c d WikiMatrix Compare them all selectable table WikiMatrix 2007 webpage wikimatrix org main Confluence wiki markup syntax Confluence Cloud Ourproject org Manifesto Ourproject org July 2006 Retrieved 2019 11 25 External links editComputers Software Groupware Wiki Wiki Farms at Curlie Wikimatrix with interactive selection of wikifarms based on user preference now only available through the Wayback Machine nbsp This World Wide Web related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Wiki hosting service amp oldid 1202056970, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
