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> Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason. It is unclear to ne if you refer to statistics or gut feeling here. Would you mind clarifying?

iamacyborg 6y ago
Stats, clearly.
load 6y ago
By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes: - Wikimedia - FANDOM - Gamepedia - Miraheze FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki. Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough. [1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&oldid=1742190 https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016) [2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)
- iamacyborg 6y ago
  Gamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.
  - hadrien01 6y ago
    They're apparently working hard to upgrade and merge their diverging MediaWiki codebases; some details on this very interesting blogpost: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/Unified_Community_Platform:_The_Vision,_Purpose,_and_Process https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/...
    - iamacyborg 6y ago
      Neat, I actually sold a wiki to Curse pre-Gamepedia and worked there for a short while. Not very happy to see a single company gobble up so much of the online gaming community.
- bawolff 6y ago
  > Excluding WikiHow WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/ https://src.wikihow.com/ But there certainly exist other wikis and wiki-like projects that dont. MDN and OWASP wiki are prominent examples that moved away from mediawiki. I think mediawiki has most of the mass-collabotation market, but there is much more competition in the open-source project documentation niche (which people often use wikis for) and corporate knowledge base market. P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)

iamacyborg 6y ago

Stats, clearly.

load 6y ago

By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes: - Wikimedia - FANDOM - Gamepedia - Miraheze FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki. Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough. [1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&oldid=1742190 https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016) [2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)

iamacyborg 6y ago
Gamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.
- hadrien01 6y ago
  They're apparently working hard to upgrade and merge their diverging MediaWiki codebases; some details on this very interesting blogpost: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/Unified_Community_Platform:_The_Vision,_Purpose,_and_Process https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/...
  - iamacyborg 6y ago
    Neat, I actually sold a wiki to Curse pre-Gamepedia and worked there for a short while. Not very happy to see a single company gobble up so much of the online gaming community.
bawolff 6y ago
> Excluding WikiHow WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/ https://src.wikihow.com/ But there certainly exist other wikis and wiki-like projects that dont. MDN and OWASP wiki are prominent examples that moved away from mediawiki. I think mediawiki has most of the mass-collabotation market, but there is much more competition in the open-source project documentation niche (which people often use wikis for) and corporate knowledge base market. P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)