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Comparison table of policies and other interesting attributes of general-reference [[wiki]]s written in the [[:Category:Wiki English|English]] language (with [[:Category:Wiki with 1,001 to 2,000 pages|over 1,000 articles]]).
Comparison table of policies and other interesting attributes of general-reference [[wiki]] sites written in the [[:Category:Wiki English|English]] language (with [[:Category:Wiki with 1,001 to 2,000 pages|over 1,000 articles]]).


===Table===
===Comparison table===
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|+<big><big>comparison table – Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge</big> <sup>([[Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table|edit]])</sup></big>
|+<big><big>Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge</big> <sup>([[Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table|edit]] / [[Template talk:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table|talk]])</sup></big>
! !!<big>[[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]</big><br><small>(info for<br>[[English Wikipedia]])</small>!!<big>[[Wikinfo]]</big><br><small>(from 2014 timeslice<br>of lost wiki)</small>!!<big>[[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]]</big><br><small>(for all [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]])</small>!!<big>[[WikiKnowledge]]</big><br><small>(dead wiki –<br>as of Oct 2008)</small>
! !!<big>[[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]</big><br><small>(info for<br>[[English Wikipedia]])</small>!!<big>[[Wikinfo]]</big><br><small>(from 2014 timeslice<br>of lost wiki)</small>!!<big>[[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]]</big><br><small>(for all [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]])</small>!!<big>[[WikiKnowledge]]</big><br><small>(dead wiki –<br>as of Oct 2008)</small>
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Size|size<br>(number of articles)]]||[[wp:Special:Statistics|>5,665,000]]<br><small>(originally seeded from<br>''1911 Encyclopedia Britannica'')</small>||[https://archive.is/AMibZ 6,166]<br><small>(mostly imported from<br>En-Wp and little modified)</small>||[http://www.wikia.com/Special:Search?search=List+of+Wikia >13,200]<br><small>(stats unofficial, based on<br>WikiIndex Wikia category)</small>||[[Archive.org:20081011115633/http://WikiKnowledge.net/wiki/Special:Statistics|1,950]]
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Size|size<br>(number of<br>articles)]]||{{Wp|Special:Statistics|>5,665,000}}<br><small>(originally seeded from<br>''1911 Encyclopedia Britannica'')</small>||[https://archive.is/AMibZ 6,166]<br><small>(mostly imported from<br>En-Wp and little modified)</small>||[http://www.wikia.com/Special:Search?search=List+of+Wikia >13,200]<br><small>(stats unofficial,<br>based on WikiIndex Wikia category)</small>||[[Archive.org:20081011115633/http://WikiKnowledge.net/wiki/Special:Statistics|1,950]]
|-
|-
|'''traffic / search engine rank||???||???||???||???
|'''traffic / [[:Category:Search engine|search<br>engine]] rank||???||???||???||???
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Google|Google]] PageRank||9/10||0/10||?/10||0/10
|'''[[:Category:Google|Google]] PageRank||9/10||0/10||?/10||0/10
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Status|average number edits/day]]||~300,000||~50||???||~10
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Status|average number<br>edits per day]]||~300,000||~50||???||~10
|-
|-
|'''[[Bureaucrat|'crats]] / [[Sysop|admins]] / reg. [[user]]s||[[wp:Special:Statistics|21 / >1,200 / >33,805,000]]||[https://archive.is/AMibZ 2 / 8 / 3,111]||?? / ??? / ????||?? / 7 / 388
|'''[[Bureaucrat|'crats]] / [[Sysop|admins]] /<br>reg. [[user]]s||{{Wp|Special:Statistics|21 / >1,200 / >33,805,000}}||[https://archive.is/AMibZ 2 / 8 / 3,111]||?? / ??? / ????||?? / 7 / 388
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|who can edit]]||[[:Category:OpenEdit|anonymous]]||[[:Category:ByInvitation|invitation only]]||[[:Category:OpenEdit|anonymous]]||[[:Category:LoginToEdit|registered only]]
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|who can edit]]||[[:Category:OpenEdit|anonymous]]||[[:Category:ByInvitation|invitation only]]||[[:Category:OpenEdit|anonymous]]||[[:Category:LoginToEdit|registered only]]
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|'''[[:Category:Wiki License|license of content]]||[[GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]] / [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Public Domain (generic)|PD - public domain]]
|'''[[:Category:Wiki License|license of content]]||[[GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]] / [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|CC-BY-SA 3.0]]||[[:Category:Wiki Public Domain (generic)|PD - public domain]]
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Non-profit|non-profit]] or commercial||non-profit||unknown (personal)||for profit commercial||unknown (personal)
|'''[[:Category:Non-profit|non-profit]]<br>or [[:Category:Commercial|commercial]]||non-profit||unknown (personal)||for profit commercial||unknown (personal)
|-
|-
|'''funding||free (donations)||???||prolific [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]]||[[:Category:GoogleAds|GoogleAds]]
|'''funding||free (donations)||???||prolific [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]]||[[:Category:GoogleAds|GoogleAds]]
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Topic|scope of content]]||[[wp:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|general-reference]]||general-reference-plus||general-reference-plus||general-reference-plus
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Topic|scope of content]]||{{Wp|Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|general-reference}}||general-reference-plus||general-reference-plus||general-reference-plus
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Point of view|point of view]] (POV)||[[Neutral point of view|NPOV]]||[[Archive.org:20160415113736/http://Wikinfo.org/w/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view|SPOV]]||???||NPOV
|'''[[:Category:Point of view|point of view]] (POV)||[[Neutral point of view|NPOV]]||[[Archive.org:20160415113736/http://Wikinfo.org/w/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view|SPOV]]||???||NPOV
|-
|-
|'''[[Verifiable|quality standard]]||[[wp:Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiable]]||verifiable truth||no requirement||truth?
|'''[[Verifiable|quality standard]]||{{Wp|Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiable}}||[[verifiable]] truth||no requirement||truth?
|-
|-
|'''notability||[[wp:Wikipedia:Notability|non-notable excluded]]||inclusive||anything goes||inclusive
|'''[[notability]]||{{Wp|Wikipedia:Notability|non-notable excluded}}||inclusive||anything goes||inclusive
|-
|-
|'''original research (OR)||[[wp:Wikipedia:No original research|excluded]]||strongly encouraged||???||OK
|'''[[original research]]<br>(OR)||{{Wp|Wikipedia:No original research|excluded}}||strongly encouraged||???||OK
|-
|-
|'''self-commentary||[[wp:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|COI discouraged]]||permitted||???||???
|'''self-commentary||{{Wp|Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|COI discouraged}}||permitted||???||???
|-
|-
|'''offensive material<br><small>(sexual, violence, profanity)</small>||[[wp:Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not censored|permitted]]||(unresolved)||???||no censorship
|'''offensive material<br><small>(sexual, violence, profanity)</small>||{{Wp|Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not censored|permitted}}||(unresolved)||???||no censorship
|-
|-
|'''boldness||[[be bold]]||be bold, but..||be bold, be creative||be bold
|'''boldness||[[be bold]]||be bold, but..||be bold, be creative||be bold
|-
|-
|'''rules||[[wp:Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|ignore the rules]]||read the rules||???||read the rules
|'''rules||{{Wp|Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|ignore the rules}}||read the rules||???||read the rules
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki engine|software used]]<br>('wiki engine')||originally [[:Category:UseMod Wiki|UseMod Wiki]],<br>now [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||was [[:Category:GetWiki|GetWiki]],<br>now [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||heavily modified<br>[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]
|'''[[:Category:Wiki engine|software used]]<br>('wiki engine')||originally [[:Category:UseMod Wiki|UseMod Wiki]],<br>now [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||was [[:Category:GetWiki|GetWiki]],<br>now [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||heavily modified<br>[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]||[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Backups|archived by 3rd party]]||many unofficial mirrors||yes, [[WikiTeam]]||no, internally by Wikia||no
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Backups|database download]]<br>published online||[[Wikimedia Downloads]][https://Dumps.Wikimedia.org/backup-index.html yes]||via [[Archive.org]]||some from Wikia site<br>'Statistics' page||no
|-
|-
|'''database download<br>published online||yes||[[Archive.org]]||some from Wikia site<br>'Statistics' page||no
|'''[[:Category:Wiki Backups|archived by<br>3rd party]]||many unofficial [[mirror]]s||yes, [[WikiTeam]]||no, internally by Wikia||no
|-
|-
|'''[[Founder|founder(s)]]||[[Jimmy Wales]]||[[Fred Bauder]]||Jimmy Wales /<br>[[Angela Beesley Starling|Angela Beesley]]||[[Archive.org:20081207020219/http://WikiKnowledge.net/wiki/User:Gmcfoley|Gerard Foley]]
|'''[[Founder|founder(s)]]||[[Jimmy Wales]]||[[Fred Bauder]]||Jimmy Wales /<br>[[Angela Beesley Starling|Angela Beesley]]||[[Archive.org:20081207020219/http://WikiKnowledge.net/wiki/User:Gmcfoley|Gerard Foley]]
|}
|}
:''Statistics as of 29jan07.<!--Wikipedia & Wikia updated Jan 2012-->  If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.
:''Statistics as of 29jan07.<!--Wikipedia & Wikia updated Jan 2012-->  If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.


===Notes===
===Notes===
Anonymous — [[:Category:OpenEdit|OpenEdit]] – anyone can edit content, without registration, including [[IP editor]]s<br>
Anonymous — [[:Category:OpenEdit|Open edit]] – anyone can edit content, without registration, including [[IP editor]]s<br>
Registered only — [[:Category:LoginToEdit|LoginToEdit]] – registration required<br>
Registered only — [[:Category:LoginToEdit|Login to edit]] – registration required<br>
Invitation only — [[:Category:ByInvitation|ByInvitation]] – typically extremely limited number of editors, usually known personally by [[founder]]<br>
Invitation only — [[:Category:ByInvitation|By invitation]] – typically extremely limited number of [[editor]]s, usually known personally by [[founder]]<br>
GFDL — [[GNU Free Documentation License]] – https://www.GNU.org/licenses/fdl.html<br>
GFDL — [[GNU Free Documentation License]] – https://www.GNU.org/licenses/fdl.html<br>
NPOV — [[neutral point of view]]<br>
NPOV — [[neutral point of view]]<br>
SPOV — [[Archive.org:20160415113736/http://Wikinfo.org/w/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view|sympathetic point of view]]<br>
SPOV — [[Archive.org:20160415113736/http://Wikinfo.org/w/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view|sympathetic point of view]]<br>
COI — [[wp:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]]<br>
COI — {{Wp|Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest}}<br>


https://en.Wikipedia.org •
https://En.Wikipedia.org&nbsp;•
http://www.Wikinfo.org •
http://www.Wikinfo.org&nbsp;•
http://www.Wikia.com •
http://www.Wikia.com&nbsp;•
http://www.WikiKnowledge.net/wiki
http://www.WikiKnowledge.net/wiki


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;additional resources:
;additional resources:
*[[Meta-Wiki:List of largest wikis|List of largest wikis]] — at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]
*{{WMF-Meta|List of largest wikis}} — at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]
*[[WikiIndex]]
*[[WikiIndex]]
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Comparison table of policies and other interesting attributes of general-reference wiki sites written in the English language (with over 1,000 articles).

Comparison table

Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge (view / edit / talk)
Wikipedia
(info for
English Wikipedia)		 Wikinfo
(from 2014 timeslice
of lost wiki)		 Wikia
(for all languages)		 WikiKnowledge
(dead wiki –
as of Oct 2008)
size
(number of
articles)		 >5,665,000
(originally seeded from
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica)		 6,166
(mostly imported from
En-Wp and little modified)		 >13,200
(stats unofficial,
based on WikiIndex Wikia category)		 1,950
traffic / search
engine rank		 ??? ??? ??? ???
Google PageRank 9/10 0/10 ?/10 0/10
average number
edits per day		 ~300,000 ~50 ??? ~10
'crats / admins /
reg. users		 21 / >1,200 / >33,805,000 2 / 8 / 3,111 ?? / ??? / ???? ?? / 7 / 388
who can edit anonymous invitation only anonymous registered only
license of content GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0 PD - public domain
non-profit
or commercial		 non-profit unknown (personal) for profit commercial unknown (personal)
funding free (donations) ??? prolific advertising GoogleAds
scope of content general-reference general-reference-plus general-reference-plus general-reference-plus
point of view (POV) NPOV SPOV ??? NPOV
quality standard verifiable verifiable truth no requirement truth?
notability non-notable excluded inclusive anything goes inclusive
original research
(OR)		 excluded strongly encouraged ??? OK
self-commentary COI discouraged permitted ??? ???
offensive material
(sexual, violence, profanity)		 permitted (unresolved) ??? no censorship
boldness be bold be bold, but.. be bold, be creative be bold
rules ignore the rules read the rules ??? read the rules
software used
('wiki engine')		 originally UseMod Wiki,
now MediaWiki		 was GetWiki,
now MediaWiki		 heavily modified
MediaWiki		 MediaWiki
database download
published online		 Wikimedia Downloadsyes via Archive.org some from Wikia site
'Statistics' page		 no
archived by
3rd party		 many unofficial mirrors yes, WikiTeam no, internally by Wikia no
founder(s) Jimmy Wales Fred Bauder Jimmy Wales /
Angela Beesley		 Gerard Foley
Statistics as of 29jan07. If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.

Notes

Anonymous — Open edit – anyone can edit content, without registration, including IP editors
Registered only — Login to edit – registration required
Invitation only — By invitation – typically extremely limited number of editors, usually known personally by founder
GFDL — GNU Free Documentation License – https://www.GNU.org/licenses/fdl.html
NPOV — neutral point of view
SPOV — sympathetic point of view
COI — conflict of interest

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