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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 1,200,000 songs on over 75,000 albums by about 67,000 artists. The almost 1.7 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 | ||
|pages = | |pages = 1696976 | ||
|statistics URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics | |statistics URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics | ||
|wikiFactor = 27 | |wikiFactor = 27 | ||
|wikiFactor URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special: | |wikiFactor URL = http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Top | ||
}}(As of: | }}(As of: 30 November 2011)<!--wF NOT checkable/verifiable as Wikia disabled the statistics for performance reasons--> | ||
'''Information on the wikiFactor''' | '''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. | |||
[[Category:Entertainment]] | [[Category:Entertainment]] | ||