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|name            = <big>ShoutWiki Limited</big><br><small>''express yourself and be heard''</small>

|URL              = http://shoutwiki.com

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|recentchanges URL= http://shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

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|founder          = ''various''<ref name=About>[[ShoutWiki:ShoutWiki_Hub:About|ShoutWiki Hub:About – About ShoutWiki]]; ''ShoutWiki.com/wiki''; [[ShoutWiki hub (en)]]; accessed 4 January 2023.</ref>

|CEO              = [[User:Lcawte|Lewis Cawte]] <small>(owner, director)</small><ref name=CompaniesHouseOfficers>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09749047/officers ShoutWiki Limited, Company number 09749047 - People - Officers]; ''CompaniesHouse.gov.uk''; Companies House, United Kingdom; accessed 16 February 2018.</ref><br><s>[[Cook879|Richard Cook]]</s> <small>(former director)</small><ref name=CompaniesHouseOfficers/>

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'''Category: ShoutWiki''' — this [[Special:Categories|category]] here on WikiIndex contains [[wiki]] sites hosted by '''ShoutWiki Limited''',<ref name=CompaniesHouseOverview>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09749047 ShoutWiki Limited, Company number 09749047 - overview]; ''CompaniesHouse.gov.uk''; Companies House, United Kingdom; accessed 16 February 2018.</ref> a {{tag|wiki company}} from {{tag|England}} in the {{tag|United Kingdom}} (UK) which provides a {{tag|MediaWiki wiki farm}}.

'''ShoutWiki – ''express yourself and be heard''''' — is a {{tag|Free MediaWiki wiki farm|free}}, advertising-supported ({{tag|Google advertising}}) [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]] hosting service – aka a [[wiki farm]], which uses the {{tag|MediaWiki}} software. ShoutWiki offer three different types of free wiki hosting solutions; of which each one has different features: [[ShoutWiki:Public wiki|public wikis]], [[ShoutWiki:Private wiki|private wikis]], and [[ShoutWiki:School wiki|school / university wikis]].<ref>[[ShoutWiki:Wiki types|Wiki types]]; ''ShoutWiki.com/wiki''; [[ShoutWiki hub (en)]]; accessed 31 March 2022.</ref>  [[ShoutWiki hub]] (in its [[Template:ShoutWiki hub|various languages]]) is the help and support '[[:Category:Meta|meta]]' wiki site for the entire ShoutWiki wiki farm.  As of July 2024, ShoutWiki hosts 12,640 wiki sites in more than twenty different [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]].[http://shoutwiki.com/wiki/ShoutWiki_Hub:About]

;''Features

 

 

;''Staff

[[:Category:ShoutWiki staff|ShoutWiki's staff]] consists of [[:Category:MediaWiki developer|MediaWiki developers]] and [[editor]]s who have plenty of experience with the software.  It is currently headed by [[User:Lcawte|Lewis Cawte]], who [[Owner|owns]] more than 75% of the company, with more than 75% voting rights.<ref name=CompaniesHouseOfficers/>  The full list of ShoutWiki staff are as follows:<ref>[[ShoutWiki:ShoutWiki Staff|ShoutWiki staff]]; ''ShoutWiki.com/wiki''; [[ShoutWiki hub (en)]]; accessed 31 March 2022.</ref>

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*'''[[User:Lcawte|Lewis Cawte]]''' — director, Chief Technical Officer<ref name=CompaniesHouseOfficers/>

*[[Nicmavr]] — customer support

*[[DeviantSalens]]

*[[Isarra Yos]] — user experience designer</div>

 

The following are former ShoutWiki staff members:<ref>[[ShoutWiki:Category:Former ShoutWiki staff|Former ShoutWiki staff]]; ''ShoutWiki.com/wiki''; [[ShoutWiki hub (en)]]; accessed 31 March 2022.</ref>

*'''[[Cook879|Richard Cook]]''' — former director, resigned 31 May 2017<ref name=CompaniesHouseOfficers/>

*[[Lynton]]

*[[Pinky]]</div>

;''Major outages

ShoutWiki had a major [[:Category:Cannot connect|outage]] on 17 June 2011, that lasted until around 10 January 2012.  Since it took this long time to set up a new server, and probably many wikis would have been moved to another host, [[staff]] decided that they'll recover existing wikis on demand.

On 3 March 2012, there was another major [[:Category:Possibly discontinued wikis|outage]].  This time, however, there was a problem with the [[:Category:Wiki database backup|backup]] system; and all edits made since the last recover were lost, so nothing had been recovered since 17 June 2011.

;''References

;''External links

*[https://phabricator.shoutwiki.com ShoutWiki Phabricator] — public bug tracker and project management, at Phabricator.ShoutWiki.com

*[[ShoutWiki:List of wikis|List of ShoutWiki-hosted wikis]] — at ShoutWiki.com

*[http://shoutwiki.com/w/api.php?action=query&list=listwikis MediaWiki API HTML list of ShoutWiki wikis] — at ShoutWiki.com

*{{Mw|Category: Extensions by ShoutWiki}} — at [[MediaWiki.org]]

*[[Archive.org:20170524064131/https://S23.org/wikistats/shoutwiki_html.php|WikiStats – List of ShoutWiki.com wikis]] — sortable list table of ShoutWiki wiki sites by {{U|mutante}} at [[S23-Wiki|S23.org]] (archived 2017-05-24, very useful historical information back to 2011)

{{Wikistats v2.2-project|sw|ShoutWikis|ShoutWiki}}

*[https://archive.org/details/shoutwiki.com ShoutWiki wikifarm dump 2011-08-16] — by Nemo_bis from [[Archive Team#WikiTeam|WikiTeam]], at [[Archive.org]] (all 397 known ShoutWiki.com wikis dumped)

*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=ShoutWiki&sin= ShoutWiki individual wiki sites archived] — search of ShoutWiki at Archive.org

*[[YouTube-vid:qcfuA_UAz3I|Stop using Fandom]] — by mossbag, on YouTube.com

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