Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table

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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	Google advertising
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 If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.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

https://en.wikipedia.org • http://www.wikinfo.org • http://www.wikia.com • http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki

other

• http://opencycle.vacommunity.net 61 pages

future questions

• Archived by https://archive.org ??

additional resources

• List of largest wikis — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• WikiIndex