[edit] Frequently asked Questions
[edit] Where do I go if I leave Wikia?
A: There are plenty of wiki farms out there, as well as independent wikis that welcome new users.
[edit] What is the easiest and best wiki to move to?
- More detailed instructions on how to leave Wikia for Shoutwiki.
A: Based on editors' experiences, shoutwiki is the easiest wiki to move too, (setup takes less than ten minutes):
- 1. Create a wiki.
- 2. E-mail support@shoutwiki.com with:
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- a link to your old wikia you are leaving and
- a link to the newly created shoutwiki wiki.
- 3. The helpful shoutwiki staff will do the rest.
[edit] Monaco skin available on Shoutwiki
- Further Wikia v Shoutwiki
Shoutwiki now has Monaco. You can enable it on your preferences.
December 21, 2010 Blog post.
It's no longer a premium feature! [1]
[edit] Monaco skin available to download
With the Dantman Monaco-port wikis running Mediawiki 1.16+ can run Monaco. Installation is in less than 10 minutes.
Club Penguin Wiki with Monaco
The Club Penguin Wiki Network Successfully installed monaco and has its customized css for monaco.
[edit] Are there alternatives to Wikia for hosting?
For skins offered, and details on how to move to these farms, see Wikifarm.
| Alternatives to wikia |
| Site |
Description |
Rating |
| Wikipedia comparison of wiki farms |
List of wiki farms like wikia. Here is an older version with many more companies listed. Click the "Base wiki engine" in the table to see all mediawiki hosted sites |
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| Shoutwiki |
In existence since April 2009. Recent slow load times and site outages. Free. Has Monaco skin. See also Wikia v Shoutwiki |
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| wikkii.com |
A lot of enticing promises on the features page. "100% free. Unlimited diskspace (storage). Store as many images and articles as you like, without ever running out of space. Unlimited bandwidth (transfer)." First edit on the wiki main page was June 2009, so may not be there in the long term. |

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| wikkii.net |
For advanced hosting. "With our Advanced Hosting, you will receive full FTP and Cpanel access. This means you can change templates, install extensions, and instantly make whatever changes you wish to the look, feel and functionality of your wiki. You will have complete unrestricted control of your wiki. Wikis using our Advanced Hosting will be setup under a .net subdomain, eg. example.wikkii.net." |
| Referata |
An AD-free wiki hosting site which supports semantic databases and allows for free wiki customization for admins via the site settings page, you can choose whatever skin you want and you can choose whether or not anonymous users can edit or not. |

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| Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA) |
Founded in January 2010 by Bulbapedia, ZeldaWiki and Super Mario Wiki - Manifesto - About - Not a host as such, but an organisation of independent wikis. Several NIWA staff have offered hosting space to Nintendo wikis leaving Wikia that are not able to afford hosting on their own. |
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| My-Wiki-Biz |
Over 60,000 pages, since 2008. Page editors keep 100% of ad revenues. It's not a wiki-farm, only one large wiki, so you have to work "within" the overall site. |

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| Battlestar Wiki |
Ad revenue sharing available, email joe@frakmedia.net Not a wikifarm, but a well established site with extra bandwidth. |
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| Encyc |
A free wiki repository for pages. Not a wiki-farm, but it supports some of independent wikis. |
| TropicalWikis |
Wikifarm. Has Monobook and Vector skins. Founded by Seahorseruler and Frozen Wind. See "About" page. |
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[edit] More wiki farms
| More wiki farms |
| Wiki farm |
Price |
Features |
Wiki engine |
Content license |
| BluWiki |
free |
Just a single wiki, not a wiki farm, but the site's purpose is to enable users to publish their own pages and subpages with few content restrictions, not to contribute to a common body of knowledge. No subscription needed, users can quickly make new wiki articles. Subdomains are supported. [2] |
MediaWiki 1.6.7 |
GFDL |
| EditThis.info |
free (has text ads) |
Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection, and RSS feeds. Private ownership of wikis |
MediaWiki 1.15.1 |
Wiki creators can set their own |
| Pseudomenon |
free |
Semantic Wiki based on Mediawiki and the extensions SemanticMediaWiki and Halo smwplus |
MediaWiki (latest version) |
GFDL |
| theWikiz |
free (has ads for unregistered users) |
Thewikiz provides semantic wiki with forms, drilldown, maintenance script execution through background. |
MediaWiki (latest version) with additional features |
Usually GFDL or another free licence. |
| Wiki-site.com |
free (has ads) |
Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection user rights control. Interface in many languages. Fast setup. A free *.wiki-site.com domain is offered. Google text-ads added to the right sidebar. Has Wysiwyg editing. |
MediaWiki 1.11.2 |
Wiki creators can set their own |
| @wiki |
free (has ads) |
atwiki.com is Free wiki hosting service . you can select Edit-mode (wiki or wysiwyg or text) at creating new pages. |
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| Central Desktop |
free and paid options |
WYSIWYG editing, access control, full-text search, document management, light project management, database, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, rss enabled, ideal for team collaboration |
custom wiki engine |
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| ClearWiki |
free and paid options |
WYSIWYG editing, raw HTML editing, access control, full-text search (including inside documents), document management, rss enabled, blogs, version-history, meta-tagging, bookmarks, structured content, to-do lists, ideal for team collaboration |
custom wiki engine |
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| CustomerVision BizWiki |
paid |
WYSIWYG editing, access control, page templates, domain mapping, solution templates include Sales Support, Learning Support, and Project Communication |
Custom Wiki-engine built on Microsoft platform |
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| EditMe.com |
paid |
subscription-based, SSL Encryption, Custom Domain Support, etc. |
custom wiki engine written in Java |
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| eTouch SamePage |
paid |
WYSIWYG editing, project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains |
Custom Wiki-Engine built on J2EE powered by eTouch CMS |
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| Wikim |
free public and private wikis |
WikiText and HTML editing, metasearch, factoring, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains and publicly creatable subdomains |
Custom Wiki-Engine built on .NET |
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| JotSpot Wiki |
free and paid options |
Build wiki applications, WYSIWYG editor, search MS attachments, email integration. Free version limited to 20 pages and 5 users. Recently purchased by Google (as of 1 Nov 06). |
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| LittleWiki |
free |
WYSIWYG editor and plaintext editors |
custom (Java) |
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| MojWiki |
free |
Wiki farm like On-wiki, in Slovenian language. |
MoinMoin |
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| Netcipia |
free public and private wikis |
WYSIWYG Blog 2GB per wiki created, no time limit, right management |
XWiki |
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| Nexdo (formerly Partnertext) |
free and paid options |
WYSIWYG HTML editing |
custom wiki engine |
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| Oddwiki |
free |
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Oddmuse |
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| On-wiki |
free |
World wide wiki farm, featuring WYSIWYG, attachments, multimedia, writing formulaes, plotting graphs, raw html, and more |
MoinMoin |
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| Ourproject.org |
free |
Full GForged site open to new projects, which have a wiki for document collaboration and Wiki farm |
MoinMoin |
Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) |
| PAUX |
free and paid options |
password-protected wikis on .dreusicke-verlag.de. No page limits, SSL, picture gallery included. Individualized publication of dynamic content, which contains reusable semantic content objects. They are able to represent knowledge in its full complexity, and they make knowledge available as filterable content for Websites, semantic Wiki, detailed-evaluated eLearning and individualized print media. |
PAUX |
Copyleft |
| PeanutButterWiki |
free and paid options |
Hosts simple, password-protected wikis on .pbwiki.com subdomain. No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diff, over 90,000 wikis already hosted, six wiki "skins", file uploads, page hiding, page locking |
custom wiki engine |
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| ProjectForum |
paid |
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custom wiki engine |
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| Riters.com |
free |
line document collaboration service and Wiki farm |
MoinMoin |
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| Schtuff.com |
free |
Supports tags & permissions. Easy backups, but no automatic recovery, if data is lost from server. Registered users can also leave comments on pages. Supports totally open pages, as well. Google-ads displayed at the side of each page. Picture Gallery included w/ new wikis |
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Doesn't require a particular license for contributed material |
| SeedWiki |
free and paid options |
supported by google-ads placed at the bottom of the page; cross-platform WYSIWYG editing, stylesheets, subdomains.seedwiki.com, wiki-mode, subscriptions, plus a host of other things; paid option for removal of Google ads and for having one's own domain that the wiki-owner can tag on to his wiki |
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| SnoutHold Cospire |
free |
WYSIWYG editing, permissions, public/private security models, ratings, feedback mechanisms, search engine, category organizer, profiles |
Custom wiki engine built on new knowledge management principles |
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| Socialtext |
free and paid options |
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SocialText Open |
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| Uwiki.com |
free |
First free wiki farm for Chinese |
DokuWiki |
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| Wetpaint |
free |
Features: True WYSIWYG Editing, Custom Page Hierarchies, Comment and Reply Forums with Comment Ratings, Access Control, Keyword Search, Tags, Tag Filtering, Skins, RSS, Page Locking, Profiles, Site Activity Report, Page and Comment Watching |
Custom Java-based engine |
Creative Commons |
| Wik.is |
free |
WYSIWYG editing, access control, full-text search (including file attachments), document management, light project management, database, project templates, RSS enabled, ideal for team collaboration, stores in XML, MediaWiki fork |
DekiWiki |
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| Wikidot.com |
free |
Sites get a subdomain on wikidot.com and 1 free custom domain mapping. Free Sites are supported by ads. RSS import/export, private RSS feeds for Users (notifications and watched items), RSS for page changes and forum, customizable themes, advanced forum for each Site. Custom page hierarchies, searching, advanced page (full/section/append) edit locking, blocking users and IP addresses. Private messages between users. Uses Ajax for clean interface. SEO-friendly. No limits on site size. Private (non-public) sites offered for free. |
heavily modified Text_Wiki engine |
Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses |
| Wikihost.org |
free |
100 MB space, File and Image upload, User authentication, Private wikis, Subdomains for wikis larger than 30 pages, RSS, Edit locking, Fulltext search, Email notifications, adSense advertising, Complete wiki export, Unlimited pages, Unlimited Revisions, Diff function, Revert of old revisions |
GeboGebo |
by default Creative Commons, others as needed |
| WikiNote |
Free |
No limit on number of pages (64KB/page limit) or number of accounts, complete page history, integration with Shortify |
custom engine (PHP-based); runs on WS Network UI/logon system |
No enforced license |
| Wikispaces |
free and paid options |
WYSIWYG editing, clean easy to use interface, users get a subdomain on wikispaces.com. Free version supported by Google ads - Wikispaces ads can be turned off for a fee. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support; easy space backups in zip and tgz. Blog import function/ integration with Blogger.com and Typepad. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available. |
custom wiki engine |
choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses |
| Xwiki.com |
free and paid options |
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XWiki |
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| ViaWiki |
free and paid options |
WYSIWYG editing, free version is ad-supported, paid version has option of using own domain, designed for business users, easily attach files, no limit on number of pages and easy backups |
DekiWiki |
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[edit] How do I host my wiki on another site other than shoutwiki?
- 1: Every wiki is different so contact the wiki staff first.
- 2. Download a database dump from Special:Statistics on your wiki (towards the bottom).
- Alternatively, for advanced users who know how to use scripts, If you're moving to your own server, you may use MediaWikiDumper — a tool that makes much better dumps than Special:Statistics (preserves all diff links, logs, images, deleted edits etc.).
- 3. Contact the new host and they will explain how they want you to upload the database dump (Special:Import can be used for about 100 pages at a time).
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