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Comparison table of policies and other interesting attributes of general-reference wiki sites written in the English language (with over 1,000 articles).
Comparison table[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 per 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 | Google advertising |
| 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 |
| database download published online |
Wikimedia Downloadsyes | via Archive.org | some from Wikia site 'Statistics' page |
no |
| archived by 3rd party |
many unofficial mirrors | yes, WikiTeam | no, internally by Wikia | 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[edit]
- Anonymous — Open edit – anyone can edit content, without registration, including IP editors
- Registered only — Login to edit – registration required
- Invitation only — By invitation – 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
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