Software:Miraheze

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Miraheze is a not-for-profit[1] open-source[2] wiki hosting service,[3] founded in July 2015 and run by a group of expert volunteers. Miraheze uses MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia, and hosts over 5,000 wikis (As of 2022). It relies on donations for funding and does not impose advertisements on the wikis it hosts.[1]

History

Miraheze was founded in July 2015 by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan[4] and within a couple of weeks, they drafted the support of several volunteers from another wiki farm, Orain.[note 1][4] The goal was to create a community-led wiki farm based on the Wikimedia model of community governance where the community is consulted in all decision making. At the time, Lewis was volunteering for the Wikimedia Foundation and deploying two servers there named after stars Mira and Heze and suggested the name Miraheze for the new wiki farm.[5][6][7] Miraheze opened wikis to the public on the 3rd of August of 2015.[7]

In November 2019, Miraheze became a registered not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom as Miraheze Limited.[8][9][10]

Features

Miraheze is community-led, wikis are autonomous,[1][11] and the users are consulted in all decision-making. Stewards manage the community aspects and day-to-day admin tasks,[4] while the technical staff focus on the backend.[7]

Wikis are created upon request, and are approved by volunteer users known as 'wiki creators'. Wikis are created and hosted for free and can be either public or private. Miraheze is supported by its community and has no advertising.[1] Members can contribute their time, money, or expertise.

Miraheze allows wiki bureaucrats to choose to implement or remove a variety of MediaWiki extensions that Miraheze offers on their wikis, as well as choose the licensing status of their wiki.[12] They also allow wiki owners to put a custom domain to their wikis. Wikis hosted on Miraheze can also use images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Miraheze uses Phabricator in order for volunteer users to collaborate on the source code of the site, as well as for users to request and propose new features to be added.[13]

Miraheze extensions

Notable wikis

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, Monster Girl Quest, Agent Aika and Polandball, among others.[14] They have also become home to various long standing LGBT+ wikis forcefully merged into one and purged of many articles by Fandom, such as the LGBTA Wiki and EZGender Wiki.[1]

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.[15]

Miraheze is used by the University of Hildesheim as an educational tool[16] and is used by wikis such as Rosetta Code.[17]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Orain was founded in July 2013 in response to other wiki farms at that time with restrictions on content, either for free with advertising or without advertising for a fee and with few options for customisation. Orain encouraged their users to help with the infrastructure and released their system under open-source licensing. In September 2015, their servers were compromised and all content was deleted. Subsequently, their domains redirected users to pornographic websites for a while before completely going offline.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Holmes, Juwan J. (2022-02-22). "What's Happening with the LGBTQIA+ Wiki?" (in en-US). https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/whats-happening-lgbtqia-wiki/. 
  2. ↑ "Miraheze". https://github.com/miraheze/. 
  3. ↑ Epler, Pam; Jacobs, Jodee (2022). Guide to Integrating Problem-based Learning Programs in Higher Education Classrooms. IGI Global. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-79988-179-7. OCLC 1311489671. https://books.google.com/books?id=hvZ7EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22miraheze%22&pg=PA27. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Build Your Own Wiki Platform And Grow Your Community With Miraheze" (in en). https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/miraheze-interview/. 
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named three
  6. ↑ "Why are you called Miraheze | FAQ". https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_are_you_called_Miraheze.3F. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Yaron Koren (30 March 2019). "Episode 31: John Lewis". Between the Brackets (Podcast).
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named incorporation
  9. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named filing-history
  10. ↑ "Miraheze's Future – How Miraheze Limited Will Remove Current Limits". 26 December 2019. https://blog.miraheze.org/post/10/miraheze_s_future/. 
  11. ↑ "FAQ – To what degree are wikis autonomous?" (in en). 2022-10-19. https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ#To_what_degree_are_wikis_autonomous?. 
  12. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named licenses
  13. ↑ "Miraheze Phabricator". https://phabricator.miraheze.org/. 
  14. ↑ "Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To 'Fetish' Content". Kotaku. 16 November 2021. https://kotaku.com/monster-girl-encyclopedia-wiki-will-be-sacked-by-host-d-1848068972. 
  15. ↑ Bak, Jesica (1 November 2022). "Student-created Huskypedia aims to provide resources, information to students". The Huntington News. https://huntnewsnu.com/69493/campus/student-created-huskypedia-aims-to-provide-resources-information-to-students/. 
  16. ↑ Franziska Frank, Ninon (20 December 2021). ""Dazu haben wir ein Video!" – Tutorials als asynchrone Schulungsmittel" (in de). German Medicial Science. doi:10.3205/mbi000515. https://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/mbi/2021-21/mbi000515.shtml. Retrieved 17 September 2022. 
  17. ↑ "Rosetta Code" (in en). 2022-08-24. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code. 

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