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'''LyricWiki''' is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist "without being hammered by invasive ads" (emphasis on ''invasive'', it has ads on the site for users who are not logged in). | '''LyricWiki''' is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist "without being hammered by invasive ads" (emphasis on ''invasive'', it has ads on the site for users who are not logged in). | ||
LyricWiki contains lyrics to more than 1, | LyricWiki contains lyrics to more than 1,242,000 songs on about 88,000 albums by almost 69,000 artists. The over 1.75 million content pages are categorized by artist, album, song-name, genre and hometown of band. Some songs also have translations. | ||
This wiki was named the '[[DreamHost]] Site of the Month' ([http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/DHSOTM DHSOTM]) for April 2006, and was shortly thereafter [http://www.digg.com/music/Song_Lyric_Database_Wiki_-_Over_200,000_songs_already featured on Digg] and in a [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lyrics/collaborative-lyrics-at-lyricwikiorg-170975.php Lifehacker article]. | This wiki was named the '[[DreamHost]] Site of the Month' ([http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/DHSOTM DHSOTM]) for April 2006, and was shortly thereafter [http://www.digg.com/music/Song_Lyric_Database_Wiki_-_Over_200,000_songs_already featured on Digg] and in a [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lyrics/collaborative-lyrics-at-lyricwikiorg-170975.php Lifehacker article]. | ||
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{{Size | {{Size | ||
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|statistics URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics | |statistics URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics | ||
}}(As of: 30 November 2011)<!--wF NOT checkable/verifiable as Wikia disabled the statistics for performance reasons--> | }}(As of: 30 November 2011)<!--wF NOT checkable/verifiable as Wikia disabled the statistics for performance reasons--> | ||
Revision as of 18:54, 9 September 2012
| http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/b/bc/Wiki.png | LyricWiki Recent changes [No WikiNode] [No About] [No Mobile URL] |
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| Status: | Vibrant |
| Language: | English |
| Edit mode: | OpenEdit |
| Wiki engine: | Wikia |
| Wiki license: | [[:Category:Wiki |]] |
| Main topic: | Lyrics |
LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist "without being hammered by invasive ads" (emphasis on invasive, it has ads on the site for users who are not logged in).
LyricWiki contains lyrics to more than 1,242,000 songs on about 88,000 albums by almost 69,000 artists. The over 1.75 million content pages are categorized by artist, album, song-name, genre and hometown of band. Some songs also have translations.
This wiki was named the 'DreamHost Site of the Month' (DHSOTM) for April 2006, and was shortly thereafter featured on Digg and in a Lifehacker article.
LyricWiki is the largest MediaWiki on the internet other than Wikipedia (source).
Website was at LyricWiki.org, but is now hosted at Wikia.
| Wiki size: | 1,758,559 article pages see stats |
(As of: 30 November 2011)
Information on the wikiFactor
The actual wF is a lot higher than the given one, as the counter does not increase if a page is loaded out of the cache, which happens for approximately 50% to 90% of all pageviews, depending on which templates were changed beforehand.