English Wikipedia
This is an introduction to the Wikipedia project for visitors. There is also an encyclopedia article about it at
Wikipedia. See also:
list of overviews.
wikipedia.org
Wikipedia (IPA: /ˌwikiˈpiːdi.ə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites.
In every article, links will guide you to associated articles, often with additional information. Anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Wikipedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. One need not fear accidentally damaging Wikipedia when adding or improving information, as other editors are always around to advise or correct obvious errors, and Wikipedia's software, known as MediaWiki, is carefully designed to allow easy reversal of editorial mistakes.
Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which, in principle, anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in important ways. continue reading...
| 1 | English Wikipedia | Online Encyclopedia | 259.67 | 265,340 | 2,372,934 | 13,141,845 | 7,107,581 |  |
German Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 2 | German Wikipedia | German language encyclopedia | 167.142 | 42,158 | 748,943 | 2,121,047 | 557,369 |  |
Wikimedia Commons
About Page Not Available | 3 | Wikimedia Commons | Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons
a database of 483,090 media files, ... | 166.581 | 17,440 | 79,386 | 3,518,925 | 296,855 |  |
French Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 4 | French Wikipedia | French encyclopedia | 162.836 | 39,607 | 658,157 | 2,488,821 | 398,155 |  |
Italian Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 5 | Italian Wikipedia | Italian language encyclopedia | 143.18 | 22,272 | 452,418 | 1,277,799 | 270,373 |  |
Japanese Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 6 | Japanese Wikipedia | Japanese language encyclopedia | 140.554 | 15,523 | 490,681 | 1,219,791 | 211,773 |  |
Polish Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 7 | Polish Wikipedia | Polish language encyclopedia | 129.914 | 15,127 | 500,487 | 858,751 | 192,199 |  |
Warcraft III
About Page Not Available | 8 | Warcraft III | Warcraft III is a Wikia for the a real-time strategy ... | 117.203 | 985 | 56,488 | 128,397 | 732,813 |  |
World of Warcraft
About Page Not Available | 9 | World of Warcraft | WoWWiki, the World of Warcraft Wikia, is an enormous database ... | 117.181 | 985 | 56,488 | 128,397 | 732,813 |  |
World of Warcraft Wiki
About WoWWiki
WoWWiki is a wiki dedicated to cataloguing Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft Universe (with a focus, though not priority, on World of Warcraft), covering the entire Warcraft series of games, RPG reference books, strategy guides, novels and other sources.
The wiki is a flexible, user-editable web-based database of information made up entirely of user contributions, and uses MediaWiki software.
WoWWiki is not a copy of Wikipedia - we do many things differently - but we would like to think that we're aiming toward similar high standards where describing game mechanics, geography, in-game occurrences and lore.
The WoW community often uses slang terms, which is in part reflected here. In addition, you may occasionally find information here on some articles that is decidedly not
NPOV.
Wiki is not a religion here, it is a way of editing.
We strive to be as 'lore-neutral' as possible. We do not decide what is 'official' and what isn't - that is
Blizzard's job. We record the known information and try to present all sides of any valid controversy.
See also
The
community portal
The
policies and
guidelines
The
WoWWiki category
History and background
WoWWiki.com was launched on the 24th November 2004 as a source of information pertaining to World of Warcraft. continue reading...
| 10 | World of Warcraft Wiki | WoWWiki is the actual main and largest information resource about ... | 116.913 | 992 | 56,489 | 128,399 | 732,815 |  |
English Wiktionary
Hello, and welcome! Wiktionary is a multilingual (multiple-language), free dictionary and thesaurus, being written collaboratively on this website by people from around the world. Entries may be edited by anyone!
We have created 470,228 articles since starting in December, 2002, and we're growing rapidly.
Editing Wiktionary
Ordinary people like you are very active in building this project. While you are reading this, it is likely someone is editing one of our entries. Many knowledgeable people are already at work, but everybody is welcome!
Contributing does not require logging in, but we'd prefer that you do, as it facilitates the administration of this site. (Note that logging in also prevents the IP address of your computer from being displayed in the page history.)
You can dive in right now and add or alter a definition, add example sentences, or help us to properly format or categorize entries. You can even create a page for a term we're missing. continue reading...
| 11 | English Wiktionary | Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce ... | 109.119 | 4,141 | 809,250 | 935,127 | 59,940 |  |
Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 12 | Wikipedia | Svenska wiki | 104.527 | 5,976 | 282,631 | 656,129 | 62,347 |  |
| 13 | Star Wars | The Star Wars Wikia contains detailed information about the Star ... | 103.52 | 1,098 | 56,819 | 165,862 | 732,805 |  |
WikiHow
About Page Not Available | 14 | WikiHow | WikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's ... | 96.149 | 4,913 | 36,941 | 286,915 | 91,034 |  |
Halo
Hello, and Welcome to Halopedia
Welcome to the best place to learn everything about the universe of Halo.
If you're not a big Halo fan, then this probably isn't the place for you. All information held within the confines of this wiki are related to Halo, either directly, or peripherally.
Ah, the timeless question: What the CRAP is a wiki??!! Well, a wiki is a site where anybody -- not just webmasters or members -- can edit any page. Wikis are best used for collaborative knowledge-base type documents. For instance, one of the most successful wikis is the Wikipedia.
What this means is that you could be an important author on Halopedia. Know about some hidden cache of weapons that could help you bust up the Flood? Do you know every tiny glitch in both games? Wanna help us catalogue EVERYTHING about Halo? Go ahead! If you ever need to find something, use the search bar. It should help you find what you're looking for. If you know the exact page title of the thing you are looking for, click Go instead of Search to go directly to that page.
If you decide to stick around, use the log in link at the top of this page to set up a username. continue reading...
| 15 | Halo | Halo (more colloquially known as "Halopedia") is a Wikia about ... | 89.316 | 1,581 | 4,633 | 65,337 | 732,805 |  |
Korean Wikipedia
About Page Not Available | 16 | Korean Wikipedia | Korean language encyclopedia | 88.401 | 4,789 | 62,050 | 163,880 | 34,311 |  |
Marvel Database Project Wiki
The Marvel Database Project came online March 18th, 2005 as a non-profit site, with the goal of becoming the largest online database pertaining only to Marvel Comics. This site, aka the MDP, is the creation of Jamie Hari. MarvelDatabase.com uses the latest technology to present the information in a visually appealing and easy to navigate format. Thanks to the open source software, provided by the MediaWiki foundation, we are able to extend support of this reference to the Marvel Comics fanbase.
The Database was created initially from reference materials such as The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (aka OHMU) and various online sources. For a more complete list of references, although not exhaustive, see our Sources page.
Now that the Database is underway, the updates to our site are coming in from all sides. This often means a hard time when monitoring where this information comes from. We encourage users to list their references on the page containing the content they submitted. This unfortunately isn't always the easiest task. Also, we often get original material written by the user and hence may not have a specific reference.
We very much discourage plagiarism and if appropriately notified, will be more than glad to remove, update or appropriately credit the offending material.
See also our copyrights section.
What you will find:
Detailed Comics Listings and Synopses
Images (Cover Art, Character Art and Fan Art)
Information on Marvel's Earth-616 reality and most other alternate realities
Profiles on real Marvel contracted employees, past and present.
Special Case: Conan the Barbarian (Major interactions and impact on Earth-616)
Special Case: DC Crossovers that have lasting impact on existing Marvel realities
Special Case: Howard the Duck (Frequent appearances in Earth-616)
What you won't find:
Non-Marvel comics
Star-Trek comics
continue reading... | 17 | Marvel Database Project Wiki | Wiki for the Marvel Comics Database Project | 88.039 | 404 | 19,575 | 111,426 | 732,831 |  |
Marvel
About Page Not Available | 18 | Marvel | Marvel Universe is a Wikia that will attempt to gather ... | 88.025 | 410 | 19,575 | 111,421 | 732,831 |  |
Wikipedia tiếng Việt
About Page Not Available | 19 | Wikipedia tiếng Việt | Wikipedia tiếng Việt | 86.91 | 1,394 | 40,287 | 200,422 | 73,120 |  |
Uncyclopedia
Sauron, our lord and mistress.
“Can you undig it?”
~
Oscar Wilde on Uncyclopedia
Unicyclopedia is the official encyclopedia of Unicycles. It has all the information on unicycles that you will ever need. (But if you ever need any more, you can just add it because it's a wiki.) Unicyclopedia is a place for unicycle enthusiasts to share all their greatest unicycle secrets! Go 1 Wheelers!!!
For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the
so-called experts at
Wikipedia have an article about
Uncyclopedia.
Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies. You might say it puts the psych! in encyclopedia. It's sort of like Congress or Parliament, but unlike Congress or Parliament, we do have a sense of humor. Nonetheless, this is one of the only factual pages, before everything turns into a puddle of utter confusion and disarray. Savor it. And for the love of Sophia, we know you like disarray, (and confusion) but stop adding confusion to this non-confusing page which leads to confusion, and possibly disarray. continue reading...
| 20 | Uncyclopedia | Uncyclopedia (or Uncyclopædia), "the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," ... | 85.436 | 3,058 | 23,340 | 209,424 | 82,110 |  |
Genealogy (WeRelate)
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About WeRelate
WeRelate is a free web search engine and wiki for genealogy. It is sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) organization. WeRelate is funded solely by your tax-deductible donations.
WeRelate is a free website. Everyone is welcome to participate in the WeRelate virtual community. Our goal is to make it easy for you to discover and share information about your ancestors.
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Partnership with Allen County Public Library
Volunteers and staff of the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library assist with administration of the website. See the Allen County Public Library Homepage for more information about the library.
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Search
We provide a web search engine that tries to return only genealogically-relevant web pages in search results. It includes information about off-line genealogical sources as well. Furthermore, you can choose to include related personal names and alternate place names in searches.
Currently we have only 5 million pages in the index, but already many people have told us that they have found information about their ancestors! continue reading...
| 21 | Genealogy (WeRelate) | A free web search engine and wiki for genealogy. | 85.119 | 16,540 | 698 | 3,663,223 | 11,136 |  |
GuildWiki
GuildWiki was started in May, 2005, as a resource for the just launched NCSoft game, Guild Wars. Started by the Corpse Corps guild as a repository for information they themselves might need in the future, it has since grown exponentially thanks to the contributions of some very cool people.
All original content is licensed under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license. All other information, art, skill images, are Copyright to their original creators, NCSoft, or ArenaNet.
Domain info can be found here.
Logo info can be found here.
| 22 | GuildWiki | GuildWiki | 84.064 | 1,884 | 16,642 | 101,758 | 732,783 |  |
RuneScape Wiki
The RuneScape Wiki is a wiki started in August 2005 based entirely on the MMORPG game RuneScape and its many features. There are currently 5,107 articles at the RuneScape Wiki.
Overview
Started in August 2005 by Merovingian, the RuneScape Wiki's goal is to become a vast, knowledgeable source for all things RuneScape. The site being a wiki, anybody can edit to it, and all are encouraged to do so.
The RuneScape Wiki can be and aims to be a potential competitor against all major RuneScape fansites. Guides to new quests can be done under 3 hours, far ahead of other fansites. With more contributors, this goal can be easily achieved.
Wikis are often targets for vandalism because of the ability for it to be edited by anyone. However, the RuneScape Wiki is moderated by a number of administrators.
This wiki is growing quickly at the time of writing (26-Apr-07) with more users appearing every day. We have a guide to every quest, our treasure trails guide is virtually finished, and the other parts of the site such as Items, Locations and Monsters are becoming more comprehensive every day. continue reading...
| 23 | RuneScape Wiki | Welcome to the RuneScape Wiki, a helpful encylopedia about all ... | 83.79 | 1,231 | 8,744 | 46,269 | 732,795 |  |
Dansk
About Page Not Available | 24 | Dansk | Dansk at Wikipedia | 83.515 | 2,912 | 86,029 | 214,102 | 40,488 |  |
太空戰士 XI 網路版
About Page Not Available | 25 | 太空戰士 XI 網路版 | 太空戰士 XI 網路版 | 83.003 | 988 | 22,788 | 72,024 | 732,836 |  |
Yu-Gi-Oh
About Page Not Available | 26 | Yu-Gi-Oh | Yu-Gi-Oh is a Wikia for the purpose of explaining the ... | 82.589 | 978 | 22,119 | 85,777 | 732,797 |  |
Nonciclopedia
Benvenuti sulla Nonciclopedia.
About, ovvero circa
La Nonciclopedia si propone, come dovreste aver già capito, di ridicolizzare la sorella sgorbia Wikipedia. Il progetto nasce dalla Uncyclopedia in inglese, e siccome noi tutti siamo dei gran copioni, abbiamo attrezzato il sito per contenere articoli di alto intrattenimento e grande divulgazione scientifica (magari qualche parolaccia qui e là c'è).
Registrazione
La registrazione in Nonciclopedia non è obbligatoria, ma è fico poter avere il proprio nick qui sopra, sapete? Io ho già ripassato 2 o 3 marmottine dopo essermi registrato qui. Comunque, se decidete di non registrarvi sappiate che comparirà sugli articoli da voi inseriti il vostro numero di IP e non è una cosa bella in effetti. Ma poi a me chemmenefrega?
Cos'è Nonciclopedia?
So che siete ansiosi di sapere cosa diavolo è, ma è meglio partire da cosa non è. E qui copio e incollo dalla sezione aiuto:
Nonciclopedia NON È Nondizionario. Beh, in un certo senso lo è visto che entrambi fanno parte dello stesso sito web ma, beh, non è così. Ecco come funziona:
Nonciclopedia è per gli articoli completi. Questi possono essere lunghi o più corti che lunghi, ma non corti corti. continue reading...
| 27 | Nonciclopedia | Nonciclopedia is an Italian parody of Wikipedia. The site is ... | 81.721 | 1,162 | 6,896 | 33,951 | 732,793 |  |
LyricWiki
Basics of LyricWiki
LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. Music is a large part of many people's lives, and we feel there should be a place where people can go to just look up the lyrics to songs. No hassles.
LyricWiki is the most comprehensive site ever created for lyrics. Through automated scripts, public domain lyrics were found across the internet and reliable results were mined and formatted to provide the base of more than 430,000 songs that started the site off.
Contributions
Like most wiki sites, the content of LyricWiki depends on its community of people throughout the world who contribute the lyrics to the site and vigilantly protect the site from vandalism and much lesser offenses like simple typos. Anyone can join, and most everyone has some song lyrics that they love which they can help bring to the world. We welcome you with open arms! For more information, refer to Contributing to LyricWiki.
Affiliations
LyricWiki is running as a free service of Motive Force LLC and is the Lyrics Portal of the Social Marketplace, Pedlr (see also lyrics.pedlr.com). continue reading...
| 28 | LyricWiki | LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source ... | 80.747 | 1,642 | 675,497 | 800,453 | 29,929 |  |
Encyclopedia Dramatica
Please read our disclaimer for terms of use for the site.
Purpose
Done in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, Encyclopedia dramatica's purpose is to provide a central catalog for the e-public to view parody and satirie of drama, memes, e-pals and other interesting happenings on the internets.
The goal is to provide comprehensive, reference-style parody, to poke fun at everyone and everything on the internet.
While the articles themselves are mostly satirical jabs at Internet users (both individually and in groups) and phenomena, bear in mind that the Encyclopedia Dramatica itself is a parody of a much less funny online encyclopedia. As such, ED articles tend to make fun of the supposed objectivity and accuracy, elitism, and stupid edit wars of such sites. In other words, expect blatant, biased lies, and expect boring truths to get deleted quickly.
ED's third purpose is to catalogue Internets phenomena. In this role, it's actually a fairly good reference for dramatic events and things like memes and netspeak, provided you bear in mind the first two purposes and take what you learn with a Girlmecha-sized grain of salt.
History
Sparked after several people were denied from posting to Wikipedia. continue reading...
| 29 | Encyclopedia Dramatica | Encyclopediadramatica's purpose is to provide a central catalog for the ... | 80.596 | 1,623 | 6,587 | 147,216 | 49,239 |  |
Inciclopedia
About Page Not Available | 30 | Inciclopedia | Inciclopedia es una parodia en español de Wikipedia. El sitio ... | 76.795 | 637 | 4,681 | 40,760 | 732,804 |  |
Final Fantasy
About Page Not Available | 31 | Final Fantasy | The Final Fantasy Wikia is an encyclopedic listing of the ... | 76.118 | 600 | 7,263 | 30,298 | 732,796 |  |
Mahalo
About Page Not Available | 32 | Mahalo | Wiki search engine | 76.059 | 7,181 | 37,283 | 298,278 | 26,419 |  |
| 33 | Guild Wars Wiki | Guild Wars Wiki | 74.915 | 2,337 | 15,798 | 101,854 | 31,743 |  |
Memory Alpha
Memory Alpha is a free Star Trek reference website that is being written collaboratively by the readers. Our goal is to become the largest, most reliable, and most up-to-date encyclopedia about everything related to the Star Trek universe.
Memory Alpha is a wiki, meaning that any fan may edit any article by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every wiki article that is not designated as a protected page. This makes it very easy for any fan to share their knowledge and insight of the Star Trek universe and add to the collected information available.
The project was started in November 2003 by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson. It was inspired by Wikipedia, a free, open-source encyclopedia, and by the interest of many Star Trek fans in a website that provides timely and useful reference information on the Star Trek universe. There are currently 25,320 articles that are being worked on.
All of the site's content is covered by a Creative Commons License. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the copyleft licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. continue reading...
| 34 | Memory Alpha | Star Trek fictional encyclopedia | 74.424 | 493 | 28,138 | 72,946 | 732,785 |  |
| 34 | Lotro-wiki | Lord of the Rings Online Wiki (fansite) | 73.634 | 76 | 8,013 | 17,990 | 3,880 |  |
Wikibooks (English)
About Page Not Available | 35 | Wikibooks (English) | A Wikibooks portal, a collection of open-content textbooks. | 73.068 | 1,266 | 29,373 | 99,316 | 89,573 |  |
Whole Wheat Radio
Jim Kloss and Esther Golton
Hi!
We're real people. We have an outhouse out back. We don't have a professionally polished webpage, flashy banner ads, overblown self-promotion and lots of glitz. If you came here because you're tired of other webcast's hype and just want to connect with down-to-earth people and great music --- stick around.
We're simple, silly folks with a love of independent music. Consider us a little backwoods cabin (literally) with a bunch of beat up cars parked around the campfire where great music is being played. You'll see a few people dancing, a group over there discussing philosophy, and a romantic couple cuddling under a red blanket with a bottle of wine. Wear your comfortable jeans and the tee-shirt with a rip under the arm. You'll fit right in.
Whole Wheat Radio is an unpretentious, interactive, independent music world community. We broadcast 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year with the help of our tireless DJs - human and otherwise. We've been on-the-air since August of 2002 and have served up well over a million individual 'listens' to independent musicians' tunes.
You can spend as much or as little time poking around the site as you like. continue reading...
| 36 | Whole Wheat Radio | A live webcast that is migrating to a customized all-wiki ... | 72.172 | 824 | 39,176 | 118,073 | 1,418 |  |
Desciclopédia
About Page Not Available | 37 | Desciclopédia | Desciclopédia is a Portuguese-language parody of Wikipedia. An encyclopædia with ... | 71.751 | 1,845 | 10,792 | 86,853 | 20,402 |  |
Nonsensopedia
About Page Not Available | 38 | Nonsensopedia | Nonsensopedia is a Polish encyclopedia parody.
See also: Uncyclopedia | 71.486 | 346 | 6,231 | 29,399 | 732,791 |  |
Smash Wiki
SmashWiki was created to compile a complete, thorough, and dynamic repository of information relating to the Super Smash Bros. franchise. SmashWiki is a wiki, meaning that it is written and maintained by the community and can be instantly edited by a variety of contributors. If you are interested in helping us, please register for a Smash World account at our forums. If you already have an account, log in and begin editing!
SmashWiki is designed to include content relating to a number of issues including the games themselves, characters, stages, strategies and techniques, competitive play, and the vibrant community that has developed around the game. Besides being a resource for advanced players looking to improve their game, it is also designed to be of use to beginners just learning how to play, those who enjoy playing Smash Bros. for fun with friends, and even those interested in learning more about the heritage of the various elements that make up the Smash Bros. universe. For more detailed information about our mission and our goals, consult SmashWiki:Scope and SmashWiki:Goals.
How to contribute
If you'd like to help us out, your contributions are more than welcome. continue reading...
| 39 | Smash Wiki | Smash Wiki is an encyclopedia about the Super Smash Brothers ... | 71.266 | 344 | 2,435 | 17,521 | 732,840 |  |
Super Smash Bros
This page is all about the Super Smash Bros. Wiki.
Click edit to start this page and to tell people what this wiki is all about. You may copy the introduction from its linking page on the Central Wikia as a first version.
| 40 | Super Smash Bros | The Super Smash Bros. Wiki is about the Super Smash ... | 71.192 | 345 | 2,435 | 17,519 | 732,840 |  |
English Star Wars Fanon
About Page Not Available | 41 | English Star Wars Fanon | English Star Wars Fanon | 71.176 | 257 | 16,821 | 43,529 | 732,791 |  |
Esperanto
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