Category:ShoutWiki: Difference between revisions

'''ShoutWiki''' is a free, ad-supported ({{tag|Google ads}}) [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]] hosting service – aka a {{tag|WikiFarm}}, which uses the {{tag|MediaWiki}} software.  ShoutWiki offer three different types of a wiki, of which each one has different features: [http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Public_wiki public wikis], [http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Private_wiki private wikis] and [http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/School_wiki school/university wikis].

ShoutWiki had a major outage on June 17, 2011 that lasted until around January 10, 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 March 3, 2012, there was another major outage. This time, however, there was a problem with the backup system and all edits made since the last recover were lost, so nothing has been recovered since June 17, 2011.

There are [http://www.archive.org/details/shoutwiki.com backups for some of the ShoutWiki wikis] at Internet Archive. As of June 6, 2012 there are instant database dumps available for individual wikis. See [http://blog.shoutwiki.com/2012/06/new-feature-instant-database-dumps/ here].