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Comparison table of policies and other interesting attributes of general-reference wikis written in the English language (with over 1,000 articles).
Table
| Wikipedia (info for English Wikipedia) |
Wikinfo | Wikia (for all languages) |
WikiKnowledge (as of Sept 2012 - dead wiki) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| size (number of articles) |
>4,054,000 | >5,650 (but mostly imported and little modified) |
>13,200 (stats unofficial, based on WikiIndex Wikia category) |
1,812 |
| traffic / SearchEngine ranking | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| Google PageRank | 9/10 | 0/10 | ?/10 | 0/10 |
| average # edits per day | ~300,000 | ~50 | ??? | ~10 |
| admins / registered users | >1,460 / >17,490,000 | 7 / 2,318 | ??? / ???? | 7 / 100 |
| who can edit | anonymous | registered only | anonymous | anonymous |
| license of content | GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | PD - Public Domain |
| scope | general-reference | general-reference-plus | general-reference-plus | general-reference-plus |
| point of view (POV) | NPOV | SPOV | ??? | NPOV |
| standard | verifiable | truth | ??? | truth? |
| notability | non-notable excluded | inclusive | anything goes | inclusive |
| original research (OR) | excluded | invited | ??? | OK |
| self-commentary | COI discouraged | permitted | ??? | ??? |
| offensive material (sexual, violence, profanity) |
permitted | (unresolved) | ??? | no censorship |
| boldness | Be Bold | Be Bold, but.. | ??? | Be Bold |
| rules | Ignore the rules | Please read the rules | ??? | ??? |
| software used ('wiki engine') |
MediaWiki | was GetWiki, now MediaWiki |
heavily modified MediaWiki |
MediaWiki |
| archived by 3rd party | many unofficial mirrors | ??? | some internally by Wikia | no |
| database download published online |
yes | ??? | some from Wikia article 'Statistics' page |
no |
- Statistics as of 29jan07. If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.
Notes
Anonymous — OpenEdit – anyone can edit content, without registration
Registered only — LoginToEdit – registration required
GFDL — GNU Free Documentation License – http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/fdl.html
NPOV — Neutral point of view
SPOV — Sympathetic point of view – http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=SPOV
COI — Conflict of interest
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