Category:ScribbleWiki

ScribbleWiki [No Recent changes] • [No WikiNode] • About • [No Documentation] Main topic: Wiki farm Founded by: Wiki farm founder (founder and CTO, etc) Owner / CEO: Linger Media Company (owner) Engine: MediaWiki Farm topic: Miscellaneous Farm license: Wiki farm license Status: Dead

ScribbleWiki is a former MediaWiki wiki farm which was founded 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, that announced permanent closure of the service due to a server crash, and claimed failure of their (unnamed) backup service, to provide them with a backup. (29th Sept 2008) (The blog has since deleted all the comments made during the crisis, but some recollections may be found here ^{[permanent dead link]} at Lumeniki.)

People who want their own wiki should bear in mind that such disasters can happen. (MediaWiki backup instructions can be found here.)

ElWiki was another wiki farm that no longer seems to be available. Many free-of-cost MediaWiki wiki farms are still in service; including: Referata, Wiki-Site.com, Wikia, EditThis.info, and ShoutWiki.

The begining of the end

From the official ScribbleWiki blog, via Archive.org:

Wikis Down

July 29th, 2007

Hey Wiki Owners,

The wiki is down right now but we are working on it should only be an hour longer.

Posted by Simon Filed.

Wikis completely or partially archived

• TicTakToe
  • TicTakToe — capture at Archive.org
  • TicTakToe — at archive.is

Some of the wikis hosted in ScribbleWiki

Last list of wikis (probably incomplete) from the Internet Archive WaybackMachine at Archive.org as of October 2007: