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+'''LyricWiki''' is a free {{tag|Wikia}} {{tag|entertainment}} [[wiki]] which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable {{tag|lyrics}} for any {{tag|Songs|song}} from any artist "without being hammered by ''invasive'' ads" (emphasis on ''invasive'', it has ads on the site for users who are not logged in).
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-|statistics URL=http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Statistics
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-(As of: 3 June 2015)<!--manually add/amend date when stats are verified and/or updated-->
-'''LyricWiki''' is a free {{tag|Wikia}} {{tag|entertainment}} [[wiki]] which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable {{tag|lyrics}} for any {{tag|Songs|song}} from any artist "without being hammered by invasive ads" (emphasis on ''invasive'', it has ads on the site for users who are not logged in).
 LyricWiki contains lyrics to over 1,000,000 songs on 100,000 albums by more than 100,000 artists. The over 2.8 million content pages are categorized by artist, album, song-name, genre and hometown of band.  Some songs also have translations.
-This wiki was named the '[[DreamHost]] Site of the Month' ([http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/DHSOTM DHSOTM]) for April 2006, and was shortly thereafter [http://www.digg.com/music/Song_Lyric_Database_Wiki_-_Over_200,000_songs_already featured on Digg] and in a [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lyrics/collaborative-lyrics-at-lyricwikiorg-170975.php Lifehacker article].
+This wiki was named the "[[DreamHost]] Site of the Month" ([http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/DHSOTM DHSOTM]) for April 2006, and was shortly thereafter [http://www.digg.com/music/Song_Lyric_Database_Wiki_-_Over_200,000_songs_already featured on Digg] and in a [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lyrics/collaborative-lyrics-at-lyricwikiorg-170975.php Lifehacker article].
-LyricWiki is the largest [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wiki on the internet other than [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] ([http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php source]).
-Website was formerly at LyricWiki.org, but is now hosted at Wikia, with founder [[Sean Colombo]] given the duty of "Lyrics Manager" at the company, making him the only founder on the site to make money off of his creation.
-;Information on the wikiFactor
-The ''actual'' wF is a lot higher than the given one, as the counter does not increase if a page is loaded out of the cache, which happens for approximately 50% to 90% of all pageviews, depending on which templates were changed beforehand.
-*[http://www.wikistatistics.net/lyrics/lyrics LyricWiki Interactive Statistics] — from [[Wikistatistics.net]]
+LyricWiki is the second largest wiki on the Internet, the first being the [[English Wikipedia]].
-[[Category:FoundedIn2006]]<!--LyricWiki was an independant wiki before it was migrated-->
+LyricWiki was formerly hosted at lyricwiki.org, but is now hosted at Wikia, with founder [[Sean Colombo]] given the duty of "Lyrics Manager" at the company, making him the only wiki founder on the farm to make money off his creation.
+[[Category:FoundedIn2006]]