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*'''ShoutWiki:''' [[mw:Social tools|Social tools]] are one of ShoutWiki's fields of expertise. A charge of $5.50 is required to remove page-cluttering ads, which the site unfortunately relies on for funding. Some highly technical features are available to staff only. [[shoutwiki:ShoutWiki Staff|ShoutWiki staff]] consists of experienced MediaWiki developers and editors. | *'''ShoutWiki:''' [[mw:Social tools|Social tools]] are one of ShoutWiki's fields of expertise. A charge of $5.50 is required to remove page-cluttering ads, which the site unfortunately relies on for funding. Some highly technical features are available to staff only. [[shoutwiki:ShoutWiki Staff|ShoutWiki staff]] consists of experienced MediaWiki developers and editors. | ||
*'''Wikia:''' This host is also ad-spammed with no paid removal option available, and the staff is not very open to founder configuration control. There are many features that are available to staff-only. | *'''Wikia:''' This host is also ad-spammed with no paid removal option available, and the staff is not very open to founder configuration control. There are many features that are available to staff-only. | ||
*'''Miraheze:''' Users should be aware that despite what is advertised, Miraheze developers do not allow wiki founders to fully manage the configuration settings. Some of the extensions are similar to that of the Wikimedia Foundation, but many of them are strictly off-limits. Miraheze staff also have been known to interfere with local community operations. | *'''Miraheze:''' Users should be aware that despite what is advertised, Miraheze developers do not allow wiki founders to fully manage the configuration settings. Some of the extensions are similar to that of the Wikimedia Foundation, but many of them are strictly off-limits. Miraheze staff also have been known to interfere with local community operations. | ||
*'''EditThis.info:''' This MediaWiki host is 100% free. However, it appears to have been abandoned by their system administrators (the feature requests page has little to | *'''EditThis.info:''' This MediaWiki host is 100% free. However, it appears to have been abandoned by their system administrators (the feature requests page has little to no responses and the village pump has been blanked and protected). Also, this host is running an ancient version of MediaWiki and thus is significantly lacking features. | ||
*'''Referata:''' This host is specialized in [[mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic wikis]]. Users should be aware that the site appears to have become a dormant wiki hosting provider, as the feature requests page has been abandoned for some time and the recent changes is usually filed with account creations. | *'''Referata:''' This host is specialized in [[mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic wikis]]. Users should be aware that the site appears to have become a dormant wiki hosting provider, as the feature requests page has been abandoned for some time and the recent changes is usually filed with account creations. | ||
*'''Wiki.Wiki:''' As of December 2016, the ability to create wikis has been removed. Attempting to a request a wiki returns a message saying "we are evaluating the wiki.wiki program right now and are not creating new wikis for a while". This message has been present for over 3 months, and filing a request returns absolutely nothing. While the site has not been confirmed inactive or dead, the chances of this happening are pretty significant. | *'''Wiki.Wiki:''' As of December 2016, the ability to create wikis has been removed. Attempting to a request a wiki returns a message saying "we are evaluating the wiki.wiki program right now and are not creating new wikis for a while". This message has been present for over 3 months, and filing a request returns absolutely nothing. While the site has not been confirmed inactive or dead, the chances of this happening are pretty significant. | ||
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