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Miraheze

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Miraheze
Miraheze logo
Screenshot
File:Miraheze Meta Vector 2022 skin.png
Screenshot of the Meta Miraheze home page
Type of businessNot-for-profit charitable organization
Type of site
Wiki hosting service
Available inMultilingual
Country of originEngland, United Kingdom
OwnerWikiTide Foundation
Miraheze Limited (former)
Founder(s)John Lewis & Ferran Tufan
Key peopleOwen Baines (Secretary, Treasurer and Chair)
RevenueDonations
Websitemiraheze.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (requirements for editing differ between wikis)
LaunchedJuly 2015; 10 years ago (July 2015)
Current statusActive
Content license
Written inPHP

Miraheze is a not-for-profit open-source wiki hosting service, founded in July 2015 and run by a group of volunteers, the wesbite hosts over 5,000 wikis as of 2022.[1] The platform was created as an ad-free alternative for creating websites using the software MediaWiki.[2]

History

Miraheze was founded in July 2015 by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan.[3] In November 2019, Miraheze became a registered not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom as Miraheze Limited.[4]

In May 2019, the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence based in Estonia created the Cyber Law Toolkit using Miraheze with the aim of providing a repository of information accessible to professionals and students regarding online security.[5][6]

Miraheze has previously been used by several Scottish non-governmental organizations, including Scotland's International Development Alliance, which previously held an Edit-a-thon on the platform in 2020.[7] In the same year, students from The Arts Foundation, in collaboration with Chisenhale Studios, created a public repository of information using Miraheze that catalogued the work of various British artists as part of the alternative art program “Into the Wild”.[8]

Later in 2021, more British organizations would begin using the platform as a database, including Tees Valley Arts, an arts charity based in Redcar.[9] The platform has also been used by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology to implement the “Tutorials in Bibliotheken” initiative supported by the German National Library of Science and Technology.[10][11]

Services and features

The platform has tools for facilitating the customization of encyclopedia content, as well as a variety of tools for translating and formatting articles.[12] Additionally, the platform maintains an inactivity policy where websites that have not been maintained or edited for a period of 60 days are considered for deletion.[13]

Content

Since 2021, Miraheze has become home to wikis closed by Fandom, deemed to violate their community creation policy. This included wikis for the Monster Girl Encyclopedia.[14] In 2024, the collaborative project “Sexypedia”, a repository dedicated to cataloging information about the online phenomenon Tumblr Sexyman, moved to Miraheze after sudden changes in Fandom's policies.[15]

The platform has hosted content related to sexuality and gender, including the Non-Binary Wiki, which documents information about gender identity and language use.[16] They have also become home to various long-standing LGBTQ+ wikis forcefully merged into one and purged of many articles by Fandom, such as the LGBTA Wiki and EZGender Wiki.[1]

Role in education

The platform had previously been used by several US universities, such as Wright State University, to help instructors review student contributions in real time,[17] Miraheze is also listed by the Semantic Web library at UCLA.[3] European universities have also used the platform to share information, including the University of Hildesheim[18] and is used by wikis such as Rosetta Code.[19]

A student-led wiki for Northeastern University students called Huskypedia was started in 2022 on Miraheze, in face of dissatisfaction with existing online resources of student information provided by the university.[20]

In addition, the platform has also been used for teaching in Latin America, specifically to give courses on article writing and wikitext editing for students at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) as an alternative to the courses provided by Portuguese Wikipedia.[21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Holmes, Juwan J. (2022-02-22). "What's Happening with the LGBTQIA+ Wiki?". INTO. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  2. ↑ Põldoja, Hans (2016-03-08). "Veeb 2.0 vahendite kasutamine õppematerjalide koostamiseks". Digitaalne õppevara (in eesti). Retrieved 2025-08-03. Suurt ja usaldusväärset tasuta MediaWiki majutusteenuse pakkujat praegusel hetkel ei ole. Väiksematest pakkujatest võib välja tuua Miraheze, kes pakub tasuta ja reklaamivaba MediaWiki majutusteenust
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rhonda, A. (2022). "UCLA Semantic Web and Linked Data LibGuide" (PDF). University of California via eScholarship. p. 60.
  4. ↑ "Incorporation of Miraheze Limited". Companies House. 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  5. ↑ Sterling, Bruce. "Interactive Cyber Law Toolkit". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  6. ↑ "International Cyber Law in Practice: Interactive Toolkit". Cybil Portal. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  7. ↑ "Improving Policy Coherence in Scotland Wiki" (PDF). Scotland's International Development Alliance. 2020. Retrieved 2025-08-02.
  8. ↑ "AF 2020 Fellow Esther McManus creates artist's wiki with Chisenhale Studios". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
  9. ↑ "The Arts in Teesside". Tees Valley Arts. 2021. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  10. ↑ Frank, Ninon Franziska; Waldschmidt-Dietz, Frank; Leisering, Philipp; Senst, Erik (2021). Das Graswurzel-Netzwerk "Tutorials in Bibliotheken". Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  11. ↑ Knüttel, Helge; Semmler-Schmetz, Martina; Metzendorf, Maria-Inti (2020-09-01). "Medizinbibliotheken in Deutschland als Unterstützerinnen Evidenzbasierter Medizin: Situation und Entwicklung". GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information; 20(1-2):Doc07. 20 (1–2): Doc07. doi:10.3205/mbi000464. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  12. ↑ Schaunitzer, Georg; Dall’Olio, Raffaele; Vejsnæs, Flemming; Brodschneider, Robert (2025). "WikiBeedia.eu: A Multilinguistic Encyclopedia on Bees and Beekeeping". Bee World. 0: 1–3. doi:10.1080/0005772X.2025.2505351. ISSN 0005-772X. For technical implementation we decided to use the wiki platform “miraheze.com” as it offers an uncomplicated approach to the customization of our encyclopedia and furthermore offers a very good support service.
  13. ↑ "Protokoll der 36. Sitzung der Arbeitsgruppe Informationskompetenz (AGIK) im BVB". Bavarian Library Network (in Deutsch). 2019-07-08. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 2025-08-03. Grundsätzlich verfolgt Miraheze die Politik, Wikis, die 60 Tage keine Aktivität vorweisen, zu löschen. Auf Anfrage wird dies für das ikgroßegruppenwiki nicht durchgeführt werden
  14. ↑ "Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To 'Fetish' Content". Kotaku. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  15. ↑ Bumas, Adam. "How Fans Saved Sexypedia From Being Erased From the Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-08-03. The day Fandom denied their appeal, Lee officially requested space from Miraheze, a nonprofit hosting service, as a new home. The community lent their full support to the decision, and for the next two weeks the Discord was a hive of activity.
  16. ↑ Merlini, Sara (2020). Género e transgressão: des/fazendo o masculino e o feminino em Portugal e no Reino Unido (PDF) (in português). ICS, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. p. 69. ISBN 978-972-671-599-3. Em que realizámos uma análise documental e mediática da plataforma Nonbinary wiki (nonbinary.miraheze.org). Selecionámos este caso como exemplo ilustrativo do discurso e movimento não binário. Search this book on
  17. ↑ "The Wright State - Lake Campus (2016-2017 Scholarly Review)" (PDF). Wright State University - Lake Campus. p. 24. Retrieved 2025-08-02. The private wikifarm Miraheze can be configured to allow instructors to view student contributions in real time. Advanced students are quite proficient at reading chapters and producing quality questions, with little or no supervision.
  18. ↑ Franziska Frank, Ninon (20 December 2021). ""Dazu haben wir ein Video!" – Tutorials als asynchrone Schulungsmittel" ['We have a video on this!'– tutorials as asynchronous training tools]. German Medicial Science (in Deutsch). 21 (3): Doc26. doi:10.3205/mbi000515. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  19. ↑ "Rosetta Code". Rosetta Code. 2022-08-24. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  20. ↑ Bak, Jesica (1 November 2022). "Student-created Huskypedia aims to provide resources, information to students". The Huntington News. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  21. ↑ Marques, Juliana Bastos; Santangelo, Federico (2022-12-15). Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-350-26946-0. However, in order to control the access of the selected texts for review, while also avoiding disruption of regular work on Wikipedia, I chose to conduct the experiment on another website, identical to Wikipedia in code, navigation, and layout, but not subject to the same content rules, called Miraheze. Search this book on

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