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{{Wiki Farm
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|founder          = [[User talk:John F. Lewis|John F. Lewis]] and<br>[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Southparkfan|Ferran Tufan ''aka'' Southparkfan]]
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'''Miraheze''' is a free {{tag|MediaWiki}} {{tag|WikiFarm|wiki farm}}, built on the defunct [[:Category:Orain|Orain]] [[wiki farm]].
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'''Category: Miraheze''' — this [[Special:Categories|category]] here on WikiIndex contains [[wiki]] sites that are (or were) hosted by '''Miraheze Limited''',<ref name=CompaniesHouseOverview>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12323854 Miraheze Limited, Company number 12323854 - overview]; ''CompaniesHouse.gov.uk''; Companies House, [[:Category:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]; accessed 8 August 2022.</ref> a {{tag|Non-profit|not-for-profit}} {{tag|wiki company}} (officially {{Cambridge-Dictionary|incorporated}} 20 November 2019) from Worksop, {{tag|England}} in the {{tag|United Kingdom}},<ref name=CompaniesHouseOverview/> which provides and operates a {{tag|MediaWiki wiki farm}}.<ref name=MirahezeLtd>[https://miraheze.org Miraheze]; ''Miraheze.org''; Miraheze Limited; accessed 15 January 2023.</ref>
 
===Overview===
'''Miraheze''', founded in July {{tag|Founded in 2015|2015}}<ref name=MirahezeLtd/> and located at <tt>miraheze.org</tt>, is a {{tag|free MediaWiki wiki farm}}, originally seeded from the [[:Category:Former MediaWiki wiki farm|now-defunct]] {{tag|Orain}} [[wiki farm]] from [[:Category:Canada|Canada]].


Miraheze commits to:
Miraheze commits to:
*be {{tag|Free MediaWiki wiki farms|free of charge}}
*be {{tag|Free MediaWiki wiki farm|free of charge}};<ref name=MirahezeLtd/>
*have no [[:Category:Advertising|ads]]
*have no [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]];<ref name=MirahezeLtd/>
*be 100% open-source (code)
*be 100% {{tag|open source}} (code);
*to run the most recent version of {{tag|MediaWiki}}, offering a competitive collection of optional extensions
*run the most recent {{Mw|version}} of {{tag|MediaWiki}},<ref>[[Miraheze-Meta:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]; ''meta.miraheze.org''; [[Miraheze Meta]]; accessed 15 January 2023.</ref> offering a competitive collection of optional [[:Category:MediaWiki extension|extensions]], including [[:Category:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]] (SMW);
*offer possibility for custom domains
*offer possibility for custom domains;
*have HTTPS for all wikis
*connect via {{Cambridge-Dictionary|http|HTTPS}} ({{Cambridge-Dictionary|ssl|SSL}}, or 'Secure Sockets Layer' connection) for all [[WhatIsWiki|wiki sites]];
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*a friendly volunteer community support, open to requests;
 
*supplying the possibility to have {{Mw|Extension:VisualEditor|VisualEditor}} and {{Mw|Extension:Flow|Flow}}.
Miraheze does not allow wiki [[founder]]s to fully manage their [[wiki]]; tools such as [[CheckUser]] and [[Oversight]] are only used by Miraheze [[Steward]]s, as they reveal personal information.  Any extension at Miraheze can be requested, but it requires a security review before being installed.
 
Miraheze has been negatively compared to the Wikimedia Foundation, as it uses [[mw:Extension:CentralAuth|CentralAuth]] account unification, which means that usernames cannot be reused on multiple wikis, even if an account only exists on one wiki and is inactive. Additionally, both Miraheze stewards and sysadmins have the ability to read and perform many administrative tasks on all wikis globally. Therefore, "private" wikis aren't really private in the true sense of the word, and access to basic functions like blocking, protecting, deleting, etc. is not restricted to only whom the bureaucrats select. Furthermore, Miraheze stewards have refused to create a wiki set allowing individual wikis to opt-out of the global groups (like the Wikimedia Foundation has done with many of its global groups).


Miraheze staff have also been known to have a very strict and rigid "your account, your actions" policy. Basically, the staff members say that getting hacked or otherwise compromised is unacceptable and that any actions done under your account are deemed to have been done by you. While this rule/practice is often seen on many websites, such websites include that statement in their Terms of Use or other license agreement, which Miraheze does not. Additionally, Miraheze staff has already inappropriately banned a user who was causing no harm due to her account being compromised by a vandal.
Miraheze does not allow wiki [[founder]]s to fully manage their own [[wiki]] sites (via the '{{Mw|Extension:ManageWiki|Special:ManageWiki}}' function, which itself depends upon the {{Mw|Extension:CreateWiki}}); tools such as [[Check user]] and [[Oversight]] are only used by Miraheze [[Steward]]s, as those are able reveal personal information. Any potential {{Mw|Category:Extensions included in Miraheze|extension at Miraheze}} may be requested (Miraheze occasionally have a [[Miraheze-Meta:Community Wishlist Survey|Community Wishlist Survey]]), but it will require a security review before being installed.  Miraheze Stewards only intervene in local communities at the request of the community, or if there is [[vandal]]ism on the wiki. Miraheze has the facility to make available all [[:Category:Wiki database backup|database dumps]] at <tt>Special:DataDump</tt> on each wiki site.


Some staff members have also been known to engage in personal attacks against users with whom they do not agree. Also, one former staff member and co-founder of Miraheze has their account globally locked on Wikimedia Foundation wikis and appears to be banned from WMF as a whole.
As of January 2023, Miraheze has a service status uptime of 99.16% during the previous twelve months.<ref>[https://status.miraheze.wiki/history Miraheze - status page - history]; ''status.miraheze.wiki''; Miraheze Status powered by Hund.io; accessed 3 January 2023.</ref>


==Staff members==
===Announcement of closure===
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:ImBoPhil ImBoPhil]
On 15 June 2023, the Board of Directors of Miraheze announced that the Miraheze service will be closed and cease to exist from 1 September 2023. With immediate effect, new wiki site creation was suspended, along with all uploads. All existing wiki sites will remain "operational for reading and editing activities" until 31 August 2023. From 1 September 2023, and following at least seven days notice period, all Miraheze activity will be withdrawn in its datacenter; by 1 October 2023, Miraheze will cease to exist as a wiki farm.<ref>[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement Board / Policies / 20230615 - Statement]; ''meta.Miraheze.org''; [[Miraheze Meta]]; 16 June 2023; accessed 23 June 2023.</ref>
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:NDKilla NDKilla]
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Labster Labster]
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Reception123 Reception123]  
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:revi revi]  
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Southparkfan Southparkfan (co-founder)]


==Former staff==
====Miraheze is not shutting down====
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:John John (co-founder)]
In response to the above announcement, various members of the Miraheze [[:Category:Wiki community|community]] rallied and developed a rescue plan to save it. A new non-profit corporation (hopefully with public charity status) is being created in the USA, and this will assume the assets of Miraheze Limited. Crucially, the Miraheze wiki farm will continue to operate as normal by the outgoing board.<ref>[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_is_Not_Shutting_Down Miraheze is not shutting down]; ''meta.Miraheze.org''; [[Miraheze Meta]]; 18 June 2023; accessed 23 June 2023.</ref>
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Corey Corey]  
*[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Mutante Mutante]


===Staff members===
[[Miraheze-Meta:Miraheze Volunteers|Miraheze volunteers]]
<div style=column-width:14em><!--alphabetical order, founders first in bold-->
*'''[[Miraheze-Meta:User:John|John F. Lewis]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:John|T]])''' (co-founder)
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Agent Isai|Agent Isai]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Agent Isai|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:MacFan4000|MacFan4000]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:MacFan4000|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Paladox|paladox]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Paladox|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Reception123|Reception123]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Reception123|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Universal Omega|Universal Omega]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Universal Omega|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Void|Void]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Void|T]])</div>


====Former staff====
<div style=column-width:14em><!--alphabetical order, founders first in bold-->
*'''[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Southparkfan|Ferran Tufan ''aka'' Southparkfan]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Southparkfan|T]])''' (co-founder)
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Corey|Corey]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Corey|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:ImBoPhil|ImBoPhil]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:ImBoPhil|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Labster|Labster]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Labster|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Mutante|mutante]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Mutante|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:NDKilla|NDKilla]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:NDKilla|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Revi|revi]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Revi|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:RhinosF1|RhinosF1]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:RhinosF1|T]])
*[[Miraheze-Meta:User:Zppix|Zppix]] ([[Miraheze-Meta:User talk:Zppix|T]])</div>
''See also:'' [[Miraheze-Meta:Missing Mirahezians|Missing Mirahezians]]


===To do===
[[Miraheze-Meta:Special:WikiDiscover|Full list of Miraheze wiki sites]] as detailed on the [[Miraheze Meta]], along with [https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/display.php?t=mh 8,618 wiki sites] listed on [[Wikistats v2.2]] in 2024-07, which need adding here on WikiIndex.


[[Category:FoundedIn2015]]
===References===
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===External links===<!--
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*{{WM-Wikidata|Q42671570|Miraheze (Q42671570)}} — at [[Wikimedia Wikidata]]
{{WikiApiary-farm|Miraheze|231901}}
{{Wikistats v2.2-project|mh|Miraheze|Miraheze}}
*[https://status.miraheze.wiki Miraheze Status] — view the current status of Miraheze infrastructure; at status.miraheze.wiki
*[https://phabricator.miraheze.org Miraheze Phabricator] — technical bugs and features collaboration platform of Miraheze; at phabricator.miraheze.org
*{{Mw|Category: Skins included in Miraheze}} — at [[MediaWiki.org]]
*{{Mw|Category: Extensions by Miraheze}} — at MediaWiki.org
*{{Mw|Category: Extensions included in Miraheze}} — at MediaWiki.org
*[[GitHub:Miraheze|Miraheze]] — at [[GitHub|GitHub.com]]
*[https://twitter.com/miraheze @miraheze] — Twitter feed
*[https://miraheze.org/discord Discord server]
*[https://www.facebook.com/miraheze Facebook page]
*[[YouTube-vid:qcfuA_UAz3I|Stop using Fandom]] — by mossbag, on YouTube.com
*[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-miraheze.org-20160930 Miraheze wikifarm dump 2016-09-30] — by [[User:Hydra|Hydriz]] of [[Archive Team#WikiTeam|WikiTeam]], at [[Archive.org]]
*[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-miraheze.org-20170402 Miraheze wikifarm dump 2017-04-07] — by Hydriz of WikiTeam, at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/wikibackups16062019 Miraheze wikifarm dump 2019-06-16] — by {{U|Reception123}} of WikiTeam, at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/miraheze_wikibackups20062020.tar Miraheze wikifarm dump 2020-06-20] — by Reception123 of WikiTeam, at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/miraheze_wikibackups18022021.tar Miraheze wikifarm dump 2021-02-18] — by Reception123 of WikiTeam, at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/miraheze-wikibackups22112022 Miraheze wikifarm dump 2022-11-22] — by {{U|Universal Omega}} of WikiTeam, at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/miraheze-wikibackups18012023_1 Miraheze wikifarm dump 2023-01-18] — by Reception123 of WikiTeam, at Archive.org


To do:
[[Category:England|*]]
* permanentfuturelab.wiki
* source.miraheze.org
* undisconnect.miraheze.org
* worldpedia.miraheze.org
* gen.miraheze.org

Latest revision as of 20:23, 7 July 2024

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Miraheze Limited
Recent changes • [No WikiNode] • About • [No Documentation]
Main topic: Wiki farm
Founded by: John F. Lewis and
Ferran Tufan aka Southparkfan
Owner / CEO: See: 'Staff members'
Engine: MediaWiki
Farm topic: Miscellaneous
Farm license: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
Status: Active
This Category: Miraheze is either empty, or sparsely populated,
and needs to be 'populated' with articles, stubs (and / or other categories)
relevant to the subject matter of this specific category.

Include an article page in this category via one (or more) of three methods:
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Category: Miraheze — this category here on WikiIndex contains wiki sites that are (or were) hosted by Miraheze Limited,[1] a not-for-profit wiki company (officially incorporated 20 November 2019) from Worksop, England in the United Kingdom,[1] which provides and operates a MediaWiki wiki farm.[2]

Overview

Miraheze, founded in July 2015[2] and located at miraheze.org, is a free MediaWiki wiki farm, originally seeded from the now-defunct Orain wiki farm from Canada.

Miraheze commits to:

Miraheze does not allow wiki founders to fully manage their own wiki sites (via the 'Special:ManageWiki' function, which itself depends upon the Extension:CreateWiki); tools such as Check user and Oversight are only used by Miraheze Stewards, as those are able reveal personal information. Any potential extension at Miraheze may be requested (Miraheze occasionally have a Community Wishlist Survey), but it will require a security review before being installed. Miraheze Stewards only intervene in local communities at the request of the community, or if there is vandalism on the wiki. Miraheze has the facility to make available all database dumps at Special:DataDump on each wiki site.

As of January 2023, Miraheze has a service status uptime of 99.16% during the previous twelve months.[4]

Announcement of closure

On 15 June 2023, the Board of Directors of Miraheze announced that the Miraheze service will be closed and cease to exist from 1 September 2023. With immediate effect, new wiki site creation was suspended, along with all uploads. All existing wiki sites will remain "operational for reading and editing activities" until 31 August 2023. From 1 September 2023, and following at least seven days notice period, all Miraheze activity will be withdrawn in its datacenter; by 1 October 2023, Miraheze will cease to exist as a wiki farm.[5]

Miraheze is not shutting down

In response to the above announcement, various members of the Miraheze community rallied and developed a rescue plan to save it. A new non-profit corporation (hopefully with public charity status) is being created in the USA, and this will assume the assets of Miraheze Limited. Crucially, the Miraheze wiki farm will continue to operate as normal by the outgoing board.[6]

Staff members

Miraheze volunteers

Former staff

See also: Missing Mirahezians

To do

Full list of Miraheze wiki sites as detailed on the Miraheze Meta, along with 8,618 wiki sites listed on Wikistats v2.2 in 2024-07, which need adding here on WikiIndex.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miraheze Limited, Company number 12323854 - overview; CompaniesHouse.gov.uk; Companies House, United Kingdom; accessed 8 August 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Miraheze; Miraheze.org; Miraheze Limited; accessed 15 January 2023.
  3. ↑ MediaWiki; meta.miraheze.org; Miraheze Meta; accessed 15 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Miraheze - status page - history; status.miraheze.wiki; Miraheze Status powered by Hund.io; accessed 3 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Board / Policies / 20230615 - Statement; meta.Miraheze.org; Miraheze Meta; 16 June 2023; accessed 23 June 2023.
  6. ↑ Miraheze is not shutting down; meta.Miraheze.org; Miraheze Meta; 18 June 2023; accessed 23 June 2023.

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