Wikihost
Wikihost is a proposal for a nonprofit "Wikia-killer" MediaWiki-based wiki farm. The main feature that would distinguish Wikihost from other MW wiki farms (Wikia, Shoutwiki, Miraheze, etc.) is that it would allow the wiki founder (e.g. the person who entered the subdomain, wiki name, etc. into the "create a new wiki" form) to edit the MediaWiki settings from a special page. Wikihost will not host advertising (the TOU would not allow wiki owners to install advertising extensions) and would be run by a separate non-profit, the Wikihost Foundation (WHF). The WMF and WHF would work together: they would share a software development team and use the same server infrastructure. However, the two non-profits would have separate boards of trustees, headquarters, etc. Wikia/Fandom is the current front-runner of wiki farms, but suffers from monetization in the form of advertising and unwanted features such as "Discussions" and "Fandom News and Stories". Lojbanist (talk) 22:18, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
| Wikihost | |
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| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Reason | no support. Pecopteris (talk) 05:30, 20 August 2023 (UTC) |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | Wiki farm where anyone can create their own public wiki. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | Infinite possibilities for wikis, but one English "central" wiki located at the "www" subdomain. |
| Potential number of languages | This is a wiki farm, so it would ideally support wiki creation in all languages included in the MW software (including Kotava and American Sign Language.) However, it would probably be best to start with a certain number of "basic" languages (en, de, fr, es, pt, eo, zh, ja, ru, ar, he, ko) and roll out other languages later. |
| Proposed URL | https://www.wikihost.org |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | Same extensions as the WMF projects would be installed by default on new wikis. |
| Interested participants | |
| KATMAKROFAN (talk) 03:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC) | |