Category:ShoutWiki

ShoutWiki Limited express yourself and be heard Recent changes • [No WikiNode] • About • [No Documentation] Main topic: Wiki farm Founded by: various[1] Owner / CEO: Lewis Cawte (owner, director)[2] Richard Cook (former director)[2] Engine: MediaWiki Farm topic: Wiki farm topic Farm license: Wiki farm license Status: Active

Category: ShoutWiki — this category here on WikiIndex contains wiki sites hosted by ShoutWiki Limited,^[3] a wiki company from England in the United Kingdom (UK) which provides a MediaWiki wiki farm.

ShoutWiki – express yourself and be heard — is a free, advertising-supported (GoogleAds) wiki hosting service – aka a wiki farm, which uses the MediaWiki software. ShoutWiki offer three different types of free wiki hosting solutions; of which each one has different features: public wikis, private wikis, and school / university wikis.^[4] ShoutWiki hub (in its various languages) is the help and support 'meta' wiki site for the entire ShoutWiki wiki farm.

Features

Unlike many other wiki farms, ShoutWiki offers additional available functions compared to a standard MediaWiki installation.^[5] One notable example is social tools - features like user profiles, boards, friending and foeing, gifts, awards, and so on - which can be used to enhance the wiki experience and make editing more fun and appealing. As of early 2022, ShoutWiki is available with the option of fifteen (15) skins,^[6] with some skins created and / or adapted by ShoutWiki members. However, it should also be noted that some standard MediaWiki features are disabled on ShoutWiki.^{[which?][clarify please]}

Backups

There are backups for some of the ShoutWiki wikis at the Internet Archive WaybackMachine located at Archive.org. As of 6 June 2012, there are instant database dumps available for individual wikis. See here.

Staff

ShoutWiki's staff consists of MediaWiki developers and editors who have plenty of experience with the software. It is currently headed by Lewis Cawte, who owns more than 75% of the company, with more than 75% voting rights.^[2] The full list of ShoutWiki staff are as follows:^[7]

Former staff

The following are former ShoutWiki staff members:^[8]

Major outages

ShoutWiki had a major 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 outage. This time, however, there was a problem with the backup system; and all edits made since the last recover were lost, so nothing had been recovered since 17 June 2011.

References

External links

• ShoutWiki promotional video — at YouTube.com
• ShoutWiki blog — at Blog.ShoutWiki.com
• ShoutWiki Phabricator — public bug tracker and project management, at Phabricator.ShoutWiki.com
• ShoutWiki Twitter feed
• ShoutWiki Facebook page
• List of ShoutWiki-hosted wikis — at ShoutWiki.com
• MediaWiki API HTML list of ShoutWiki wikis — at ShoutWiki.com
• Category: Extensions by ShoutWiki — at MediaWiki.org
• Farm: ShoutWiki (id: ) — list of wiki sites (active and defunct) hosted on the ShoutWiki wiki farm, at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites; (id: 24706)
• WikiStats – List of ShoutWiki.com wikis — sortable list table of ShoutWiki wiki sites by mutante at S23.org (archived 2017-05-24, very useful historical information back to 2011)
• WikiStats v2.2 – List of ShoutWikis — sortable list table of ShoutWiki wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
• ShoutWiki wikifarm dump 2011-08-16 — by Nemo_bis from WikiTeam, at Archive.org (all 397 known ShoutWiki.com wikis dumped)
• ShoutWiki individual wiki sites archived — search of ShoutWiki at Archive.org