Miraheze
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Miraheze is a wiki farm (hosts wikis) for free and with no ads, it also provides custom domains, extensions and many other features. It is based on MediaWiki.
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Miraheze is a good place to host a wiki, the service is free of charge and there are no ads. There may be occasional outages or temporarily missing images and such, but reliability is improving steadily.
If you are interested, try requesting a wiki. There aren't too many limitations topic-wise, so there's a good chance it will be approved.
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I made a wiki here for a small project because I wanted to learn to use wikis. It wasn't easy but that's the nature of the beast. The learning curve is part of the fun. If you don't already know how to edit/admin wikis don't plan on hitting the ground running. Powerful tools take time to learn. There are a lot of little weirdsies to learn at the back end. Some times I kept having to look the same things up again and again.
Every time I ran into a wall and couldn't solve a problem, someone was immediately able to help me in the IRC which I was very impressed by. I don't know if I've ever had such fast and thorough tech support anywhere. They helped with explaining rudimentary wiki concepts, enabling features that require admin assistance, troubleshooting upstream problems in the wiki software itself and other things.
However, it happened many times that there was some sort of server error and the site couldn't be accessed at all sometimes for hours on end. I wouldn't use it to run anything that required consistent access. My impression was that the admins were working to fix this, so by the time you read this it may no longer be ongoing.
Yes, that's the very exciting part of the thing. With Fandom, you run a wiki where everything is easy, but you don't have the control on things. With Miraheze, you have more control on it, but it requires you learn how wikis run and are managed! So it's really like a school, you can test things, and one day, when you are ready to get 100% control over your wiki, you do the work they do on Miraheze, you run your own self-hosted wiki! But it's a lot of headache. This solution is a perfect midway between Fandom (no control) and Self-hosted self-runned (100% control, but hard).
Reply written Nov 25, 2020
Deleted because I recently looked back and thought this review was kind of mean
I have no problem like that. If you run a wiki, you have to learn to deal with spammers, it's the case on all the wikis in the world. Miraheze & Shoutwiki, are very good opportunities to learn to run a wiki, like a pro. Don't generalize your case, with your wiki, where the spammers come from (you said DeviantArt, etc), because it's only specific to your wiki. Each wiki topic attract a particular public. If a wiki's topic is politic science or economy, it won't attradc "Furaffinity" people. So, the problem is your wiki, the topic you chose, and how you behave as a wiki manager, not Miraheze. They offer you all the tool to fight against spam. Just learn to use them.
Reply written Nov 25, 2020
@sxdonutbandit: The crowd pandering to sexual minorities can be 11,000 times as toxic as the crowds attacking them. I'm currently on a block from Fandom; because asking for a concise definition of what does and doesn't exactly constitute "transphobia," is now somehow itself considered "transphobic."
I wanted to know, so I can write my wiki rules fairly. I don't want minorities lording over the majority, nor the majority ganging up on the minority without cause. I don't want the minorities to form thought police, to terrorize the majority for increasingly delusional reasons.
Therefore, I need to know where Fandom stands. But now I know. Simply asking the question gets you declared "the enemy." Time to find another provider.
Reply written Mar 29, 2021
Miraheze is a good place to host a wiki, the service is free of charge and there are no ads. There may be occasional outages or temporarily missing images and such, but reliability is improving steadily.
If you are interested, try requesting a wiki. There aren't too many limitations topic-wise, so there's a good chance it will be approved.
Read this for latest news: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/WikiTide_Foundation
First read-only then archived.
https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36362547
No ads, minimal editorial interference, lots of extensions to choose from, not-for-profit operation, open-source, fairly well managed, and full ability to customize skins, there is no full equivalent to Miraheze.
I switched from Wikia to Miraheze ages ago and have only a few notes.
[Edited by elkomodosdrago, May 01]
Hello, I am a sysadmin at Miraheze. To answer your points:
We'd like to install every extension that users need, however if they are not on Git it is complicated as our setup functions with Git and needs that in order to get the extensions.
We are aware of the downtime issues, and we have always tried to have the least downtime possible. I'd say that recently there has been very few downtime.
Wiki creation is semi-automated to ensure that there is no spam or vandalism and that wikis are compliant to our policies. We welcome any new wiki creators to help us with the process, and hope to make it as quick as possible.
While our financial situation can be unstable at times, we do have enough to keep us running for a while and get donations from users regularly. A fundraiser could be in the works if a situation arises where we need more funding.
Reception123, Miraheze system administrator
[Edited by Reception123_MH, July 17]
Reply written Jul 17, 2019
Me too, I'm sometimes disappointed about declined requests, but the only way to do what you want on a wiki, is to learn to run a self-hosted one. The time you are on Miraheze, you are like in a school, you learn to run your own wiki.
Reply written Nov 25, 2020
Me too, I'm sometimes disappointed about declined requests, but the only way to do what you want on a wiki, is to learn to run a self-hosted one. The time you are on Miraheze, you are like in a school, you learn to run your own wiki.
Reply written Nov 25, 2020
Sorry for the spam, a bug happens, and it validates twice my message. I don't know how to delete it.
Reply written Nov 25, 2020