Category:ShoutWiki: Difference between revisions

|logo            = [[File:ShoutWikiLogo.png|ShoutWiki logo]]

|URL              = http://www.ShoutWiki.com

|recentchanges URL= http://www.ShoutWiki.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

|about URL        = http://www.ShoutWiki.com/wiki/ShoutWiki_Hub:About

|CEO             = [[Cook879]]<br>[[Lcawte]]

'''Category:ShoutWiki''' — this [[Special:Categories|category]] contains [[wiki]] sites hosted by ShoutWiki, a {{tag|United Kingdom|British}} MediaWiki wiki farm.

'''ShoutWiki Limited'''<ref>[https://beta.CompaniesHouse.gov.uk/company/09749047 ShoutWiki Limited - overview], CompaniesHouse.gov.uk, accessed: 23 January 2017</ref> is a {{tag|Free MediaWiki wiki farms|free}}, ad-supported ({{tag|GoogleAds}}) [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]] hosting service – aka a {{tag|WikiFarm}}, which uses the {{tag|MediaWiki}} software. ShoutWiki offer three different types of a wiki, of which each one has different features: [[shoutwiki:Public wiki|public wikis]], [[shoutwiki:Private wiki|private wikis]] and [[shoutwiki:School wiki|school/university wikis]].

ShoutWiki's staff consists of MediaWiki developers and editors who have plenty of experience with the software. It is currently headed by [[Cook879]] and [[Lcawte]].<ref>[https://beta.CompaniesHouse.gov.uk/company/09749047/officers ShoutWiki Limited - officers], CompaniesHouse.gov.uk, accessed: 23 January 2017</ref> Unlike most other wiki farms, ShoutWiki offers [[mw:social tools|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.

;Major outages

ShoutWiki had a major [[:Category:Cannot connect|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 [[:Category:Possibly discontinued wikis|outage]].  This time, however, there was a problem with the [[:Category:Wiki Backups|backup]] system; and all edits made since the last recover were lost, so nothing has been recovered since 17 June 2011.

There are [https://archive.org/details/shoutwiki.com backups for some of the ShoutWiki wikis] at the [[Archive.org]].  As of 6 June 2012, there are instant database dumps available for individual wikis.  See [http://blog.shoutwiki.com/2012/06/new-feature-instant-database-dumps/ here].

;Links and citations