WikiIndex
Type of site | Wiki |
|---|---|
| Available in | English (partial translations in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Mandarin) |
| Website | https://wikiindex.org/ |
| Alexa rank | 2,366,191 (As of 30 May 2019[update])[1] |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional : the wiki can be modified without an account, the IP being made publicly visible in that case. |
| Launched | January 2006 |
| Current status | Active, with about 20 contributors in the half year leading to May 30, 2019[2] |
Content license | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
WikiIndex is a wiki aiming to list and categorise all existing wikis,[3] as well as provide information on the topic of wikis, including people, software, and ideas[4]. It uses MediaWiki and listed more than 21'000 wikis as of May 2019[5][6], making it the most successful endeavor of its kind.
History[edit]
WikiIndex was created in 2006 by software developer John Stanton, wiki activist Mark Dilley, and Internet entrepreneur Raymond King. Mark Dilley had started the SwitchWiki project in 2002, aiming to list all existing wikis alphabetically, while John Stanton and Raymond King had created WikiIndex.com in 2005 as a way to track the wikis they thought had value for them. All three met in October 2005 at the WikiSym conference in San Diego, and decided to join their efforts.[7] The SwitchWiki project and early parts of the current WikiIndex project were documented on MeatBallWiki.[8][9][10]. The project moved from domain name WikiIndex.com to WikiIndex.org in January 2007.[7]
Advancement and scope of the project[edit]
Jane Klobas, in her 2006 book "Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration", characterised WikiIndex as "perhaps the most comprehensive directory of wikis".[11]
Relevance for the study of wikis[edit]
In their 2011 article "Analyzing the wikisphere: Methodology and data to support quantitative wiki research", Jeffrey Stuckman and James Purtilo choose not to use WikiIndex, because it they deem as unclear whether the information on wikis was compiled by humans, which could result in a selection bias in their corpus.[12]
In his 2013 PhD thesis,[13] Andrew G. West considers WikiIndex, « an open directory of 10,000+ wiki instances », to be « accurate and representative » of « wikis across the Internet » (pp. 11-12). He uses the wiki to draw statistics on unregistered and registered editing in wikis, the popularity of wiki engines, and make general claims about popular wiki themes (p. 12).
Similar projects[edit]
A similar project, The Wiki Wiki is available in Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and English. Each version lists a few hundred wikis (except the Serbian version), mostly in the corresponding language.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Wikiindex Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ↑ "Category:Active contributors to this wiki – WikiIndex – the index of all wiki". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ↑ Calishain, Tara (2006). "Chapter 13. Publishing Your Information". Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web. New Riders. ISBN 978-0321491718. Search this book on
- ↑ "WikiIndex". wikiindex.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "WikiIndex:FrequentlyAskedQuestions – WikiIndex – the index of all wiki". wikiindex.org. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ↑ "WikiIndex". WikiApiary. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "WikiIndex:History – WikiIndex – the index of all wiki". wikiindex.org. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ↑ "SwitchWiki – WikiIndex – the index of all wiki". wikiindex.org. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ↑ "Meatball Wiki: OneBigWiki". meatballwiki.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "Meatball Wiki: WikiIndex". meatballwiki.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ Klobas, Jane (2006). Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration. Oxford, United Kingdom: Chandos Publishing. p. 66. ISBN 978 1 84334 178 9. Search this book on
- ↑ Stuckman, Jeffrey; Purtilo, James (2011). "Analyzing the wikisphere: Methodology and data to support quantitative wiki research". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62 (8): 1564–1576. doi:10.1002/asi.21576. ISSN 1532-2890.
- ↑ West, Andrew Granville, "Damage Detection and Mitigation in Open Collaboration Applications" (2013). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 816.
See also[edit]
- List of wikis, a list of wikis that have Wikipedia entries
- AboutUs, a wiki listing websites along with information about their content, started by Raymond King and others around the same time as WikiIndex
- MeatballWiki, the wiki on which SwitchWiki and WikiIndex were first publicly discussed and documented by their creators
External links[edit]
- Wikiapiary, a website collecting information about websites using MediaWiki
- The WikiIndex page on Wikiapiary External links : Added link to Wikiapiary and the WikiIndex page on Wikiapiary
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