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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

comparison table – Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge (view / edit)
Wikipedia
(info for
English Wikipedia)		 Wikinfo
(from 2014 timeslice
of lost wiki)		 Wikia
(for all languages)		 WikiKnowledge
(dead wiki –
as of Oct 2008)
size
(number of articles)		 >5,665,000
(originally seeded from
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica)		 6,166
(mostly imported from
En-Wp and little modified)		 >13,200
(stats unofficial, based on
WikiIndex Wikia category)		 1,950
traffic / search engine rank ??? ??? ??? ???
Google PageRank 9/10 0/10 ?/10 0/10
average number edits/day ~300,000 ~50 ??? ~10
'crats / admins / reg. users 21 / >1,200 / >33,805,000 2 / 8 / 3,111 ?? / ??? / ???? ?? / 7 / 388
who can edit anonymous invitation only anonymous registered only
license of content GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0 PD - public domain
non-profit or commercial non-profit unknown (personal) for profit commercial unknown (personal)
funding free (donations) ??? prolific advertising GoogleAds
scope of content general-reference general-reference-plus general-reference-plus general-reference-plus
point of view (POV) NPOV SPOV ??? NPOV
quality standard verifiable verifiable truth no requirement truth?
notability non-notable excluded inclusive anything goes inclusive
original research (OR) excluded strongly encouraged ??? OK
self-commentary COI discouraged permitted ??? ???
offensive material
(sexual, violence, profanity)		 permitted (unresolved) ??? no censorship
boldness be bold be bold, but.. be bold, be creative be bold
rules ignore the rules read the rules ??? read the rules
software used
('wiki engine')		 originally UseMod Wiki,
now MediaWiki		 was GetWiki,
now MediaWiki		 heavily modified
MediaWiki		 MediaWiki
archived by 3rd party many unofficial mirrors yes, WikiTeam no, internally by Wikia no
database download
published online		 yes Archive.org some from Wikia site
'Statistics' page		 no
founder(s) Jimmy Wales Fred Bauder Jimmy Wales /
Angela Beesley		 Gerard Foley
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 If they are more than three-to-six months out of date, please try to update them.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, including IP editors
Registered only — LoginToEdit – registration required
Invitation only — ByInvitation – typically extremely limited number of editors, usually known personally by founder
GFDL — GNU Free Documentation License – https://www.GNU.org/licenses/fdl.html
NPOV — neutral point of view
SPOV — sympathetic point of view
COI — conflict of interest

https://en.Wikipedia.org • http://www.Wikinfo.org • http://www.Wikia.com • http://www.WikiKnowledge.net/wiki

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