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* [[https://tumblrsexymen.fandom.com/wiki/Sexypedia_Wiki Sexypedia Wiki]]: Website/{{Tumblr}} "sexymen", fictional characters which have attracted {{Estrogen|Brigade}} or {{Testosterone Brigade}}s based on qualities [[KarkovaMan not usually considered attractive]]

* [[https://tumblrsexymen.fandom.com/wiki/Sexypedia_Wiki Sexypedia Wiki]]: Website/{{Tumblr}} "sexymen", fictional characters which have attracted {{Estrogen|Brigade}} or {{Testosterone Brigade}}s based on qualities not usually considered attractive

* [[https://tumblrsexymen.fandom.com/wiki/Sexypedia_Wiki Sexypedia Wiki]]: Website/{{Tumblr}} "sexymen", fictional characters which have attracted {{Estrogen|Brigade}} or {{Testrogen Brigade}}s not intended by the creator(s)

* [[https://tumblrsexymen.fandom.com/wiki/Sexypedia_Wiki Sexypedia Wiki]]: Website/{{Tumblr}} "sexymen".[[note]]Probably the closest definition is DracoInLeatherPants for fanon versions of characters not originally intended to be attractive.[[/note]]

* [[https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Grandmaster_of_Demonic_Cultivation_Wiki Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation]]: ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''.

* [[https://heaven-officials-blessing.fandom.com Heaven Officials Blessing Wiki]]: ''Literature/TianGuanCiFu''.

** [[http://dubbingpedia.pl/ Dubbingpedia]]: Polish, which happened in the same aforementioned year.

** [[https://albaniandubs.weebly.com/ Albnaian Dubs]]: Albanian.

* [[https://es.doblaje.fandom.com/ Doblaje Wiki]]: A wiki about the whole dubbing business of Latin America in Spanish.

Fan-made wikis are usually made on wiki farms, such as Wikia/Fandom/Wikicities.[[note]]A list of Fandom wikis can be found [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wikia.com here]], but a warning: It is a 10mb.txt file(!) and is best downloaded and keyword searched.[[/note]] Few are hosted on preexisting fansites, like hrwiki.org & tfwiki.net. Recently, organizations such as [[https://www.niwanetwork.org/ NIWA]] (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance) have spoken out against the commercialization that takes place on wiki farms, and have encouraged fans to set up their websites, while [[https://awa.shoutwiki.com The Anti-Wikia Alliance]] is against Wikia specifically.

* [[https://cluecluedo.fandom.com/wiki/Clue_Wiki]]: ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}''

* [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Disney_Wiki The Disney fandom]]: A Wiki for all Creator/{{Disney}}.

** [[https://frozen.fandom.com/wiki/The_Frozen_Wiki The Frozen Wiki]]: ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}''.
** [[https://liloandstitch.fandom.com/ Lilo & Stitch Wiki]]: ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''.

* [[https://laikafilms.fandom.com/wiki/LAIKA_Films_Wiki LAIKA Films Wiki]] and [[https://laika-entertainment.fandom.com/wiki/Laika_Wiki]]: Creator/Laika's works.

There is no area of interest, no matter how narrowly defined, where a person cannot put up a wiki for it and attract at least a few editors with similar interests. Increasingly, in fact, there is a chance that someone already ''has'' put up a wiki for it. For example, here's one for [[http://cactus.fandom.com/ cacti]]. The plants.

In the early days of the Internet, there was a similar phenomenon, the "everything has its own home page" rule. Anyone with enough HTML savvy and a powerful enough interest in one particular subject could and often would create a site dedicated to it. This was largely how the early Web was forged. In fact, all the stuff we know and love today -- e-commerce, social networking -- that came later. Except [[RuleThirtyFour pornography.]] [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters Porn was there]] [[TheInternetIsForPorn from the beginning.]]

However, a number of factors kept Wikipedia from being a perfect replacement for the old system. A desire for greater detail on the topic than Wikipedia is willing to allow, for one. Schisms or differing schools of thought on the topic was another. Fan-made wikis sprang up to bring back the world of homemade sites with the added benefits of the wiki model. Wikis are also popular with open source software projects for documentation as wikis can be updated much more quickly than static pages.

The "wiki-sphere" is becoming a vast depository of information at all levels of detail. The encyclopedic wikis are collecting a great breadth of topics at an increasingly shallow level of detail, and the topic-intensive wikis are gathering all the details.

Not all Wikis are on the major search engines, though. Corporations use wikis behind firewalls, the American CIA uses one to collate data among agents and analysts, and even publishers of dead-tree books use them to coordinate edits among authors, editors and copy editors.

Fan-made wikis are usually made on wiki farms, such as Wikia/Fandom/Wikicities.[[note]]A list of Fandom wikis can be found [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wikia.com here]], but a warning: It is a 10 mb .txt file(!) and is best downloaded and keyword searched.[[/note]] Few are hosted on preexisting fansites, like hrwiki.org & tfwiki.net.

Recently, organizations such as [[http://www.niwanetwork.org/ NIWA]] (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance) have spoken out against the commercialization that takes place on wiki farms, and have encouraged fans to set up their own websites, while [[http://awa.shoutwiki.com The Anti-Wikia Alliance]] is against Wikia specifically.

Wikis can reach truly huge sizes. To put them up as candidates for a {{Doorstopper}} is an understatement. [[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis See the list of largest wikis]].

Also, due to the ever-increasing importance of wikis in modern internet culture as well as the ever-increasing amount of information stored in said wikis, several archival initiatives such as the ''[[http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WikiTeam Wiki Team]]'' by Wiki/ArchiveTeam (which in and on itself is a wiki) have sprung up in order to protect these valuable codexes of information from maladies such as expired domains and wikifarm shutdowns. Show them some love.

* [[https://creativesci-fi.fandom.com/wiki/Creative_Sci-Fi_Wiki:Main/ Creative Sci-Fi Wiki]]: Wiki for people who like to create their own sci-fi settings.

* [[https://deadliestfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Deadliest Fiction Wiki]]: A wiki where users can write their own battles in the vein of ''Series/DeadliestWarrior''.

* [[https://halloween.fandom.com/wiki/Halloween_Wiki Halloween Wiki]]: For [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween-themed TV episodes]] and [[HalloweenSpecial specials]]. This one is notable for also having a few articles on real-world Halloween traditions and notable events related to the holiday, as well as for taking the url 'halloween.fandom.com', before the wiki for the film series of the same could, forcing that one to use 'halloweenmovie'.

* [[https://heroism.fandom.com/wiki/Heroism_Wiki Heroism Wiki]]: [[ForGreatJustice For everything that are associated with heroes in fiction.]]

* [[https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/VS_Battles_Wiki Vs Battles Wiki]]: [[TitleTheAdaptation Character Tiering: The Website.]] Has records of almost every major fictional character in recent memory (and a number of obscure ones as well), their feats, their power levels (down to the calculated numbers), and whether or not they would win against someone in a fight. It's basically WebAnimation/DeathBattle UpToEleven.

* Fanfic/CodeGeassColorlessMemories Has its own fanon wiki at ''Anime/CodeGeass'' Fanon wiki [[https://codegeassfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Code_Geass_Colorless_Memories here]] a WIP. Which includes a timeline, character pages, Knightmare Frame pages and even an eventful soundtrack for it all.
* [[https://drwhofanfilm.fandom.com/wiki/DrWhoFanfilm_Wiki Doctor Who Fanfilm Wiki]] - A Wiki for a internet community/webseries/internet franchise of tongue-in-cheek, parodic, StylisticSuck-filled ''Series/DoctorWho'' Fanfilms. Mostly a community wiki edited by the makers of the films themselves, although there are a few ‘fan’ users.

** [[https://henson-alternative.fandom.com/ Henson Alternative Wiki]]: All Jim Henson Company stuff aimed for more mature audiences (Puppet Up, Late Night Liars, etc.)

* [[https://ludism.org/ppwiki/ Piecepack Wiki]]: Games for the piecepack, a public-domain board game system created in 2000.

* [[https://www.eftepedia.nl/ Eftepedia]]: All about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efteling Efteling]], the theme park in the Netherlands; it's one of the most-visited of Europe, and is older than the orignal Disneyland.

* [[https://monsterinmypocket.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Monster In My Pocket Wiki]] for the Toys/MonsterInMyPocket minifigure line.

** Now there's even [[http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/ a wiki]] exclusively dealing with [[http://xkcd.com/1190 "Time"]].

* [[https://fuckofferino.ml/wiki/Who_Wiki Doctor Who General Wiki]] ([[ScrewedByTheNetwork formerly]] hosted on fandom, now a Wikimedia wiki- which is why so many of the [[CameBackWrong pages and images are broken]]) a wiki for 8chan’s /doctorwho/ board ([[ScrewedByTheNetwork formerly]] 4chan’s /who/ general, and also now hosted in its own location thanks to the death of 8chan after a controversy involving mass shooters that [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement we will not go into here]]). Note that this IS, above all, an 8chan /doctorwho/ (and, of course, Website/{{FourChan}} /who/) wiki, and not just a wiki for either generic Series/DoctorWho shitposting or or generic /tv/ shitposting (although some articles are admittedly just that), and the users of the site [[BerserkButton REALLY don’t like it being mistaken for either one]].

* [[https://meta-verse.fandom.com/ Metaverse Wiki]]: A wiki for what original started as a semi-fanfiction set loosely in the Franchise/UltraSeries 'verse, based on the users and their antics in chat. Eventually spiraled into its own universe.

* [[https://scp-wiki.net/ The SCP Foundation]]: ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''; a case where the wiki ''is'' the work rather than ''about'' the work.

* [[https://googology.wikia.org/ The Googology Wiki]]: A wiki about extremely large integers, such as the Googol, Googolplex, Graham's Number and TREE(3).

* [[https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/Mafia_Wiki Mafia Wiki]]: A wiki dedicated to the history of the real-life [[TheMafia American Mafia]] and law enforcement cases against them.

* [[http://portlandwiki.org/PortlandWiki PortlandWiki]]: A wiki on the city of Portland, Oregon.

** There was also the [[https://rationalwikiwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Rational Wiki Wiki]], which is a catalogue of RW that was ''technically'' made as a joke, but still manage to score up several hundred articles before it shut down. There was ''even'' a [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:RationalWikiWikiWiki Rational Wiki Wiki Wiki]], although that one was shorter-lived and existed entirely as a joke.

* [[https://7seg.fandom.com/wiki/Segment_Displays_Wiki Segment Displays Wiki]]: Numeric and alphanumeric segment displays, such as those on digital clocks, calculators and media players.

** Not to be confused with [[https://sjwlist.com/index.php?title=Main_Page The Complete List Of SJWs]], which is basically the "Vox Day's Personal Enemies List" Wiki. (Vox Day, for the uninitiated, is a sci-fi author and publisher who got hurled bodily out of the SFWA for using its Twitter to hurl racist insults at Creator/NKJemisin.)

* [[http://wookieepedia.org/ Wookieepedia]]: The hirsute encyclopedia "by and for contemporary Wookiees". Not to be confused with the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Wiki of the same name.
* [[https://world-war-2.wikia.org/ World War II Wiki]], a wiki all about UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

The "wiki-sphere" is becoming a vast depository of information at all levels of detail. The encyclopedic wikis are collecting a great breath of topics at an increasingly shallow level of detail, and the topic-intensive wikis are gathering all the details.

Fan-made wikis are usually made on wiki farms, such as Wikia/Fandom/Wikicities.[[note]]A list of Fandom wikis can be found [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wikia.com here]], but a warning: It is a 10 mb .txt file(!) and is best downloaded and keyword searched[[/note]] Few are hosted on preexisting fansites, like hrwiki.org & tfwiki.net.

* [[https://aliens.fandom.com/ Alien Wiki]]: An interesting wiki documenting every alien species ever created in fiction.

However, a number of factors kept Wikipedia from being a perfect replacement for the old system. A desire for greater detail on the topic than Wikipedia is willing to allow, for one. Schisms or differing schools of thought on the topic was another. Fan-made wikis sprang up to bring back the world of homemade sites with the [[Administrivia/WikiMagic added benefits]] of the wiki model. Wikis are also popular with open source software projects for documentation as wikis can be updated much more quickly than static pages.

* [[https://erma.fandom.com/wiki/Erma_(comic) Erma Comics Wiki]]: ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}

* [[https://erma.fandom.com/wiki/Erma_(comic)Erma Comics Wiki]]: ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}

* [[https://incryptid.fandom.com/wiki/InCryptid_Wiki InCryptid Wiki]]: ''Literature/InCryptid''.

* [[https://pbs-kids-sprout-tv.fandom.com/PBS Kids Sprout TV Wiki]]: {{Creator/Sprout}} and its programming blocks and shows.

* [[https://pbs-kids-sprout-tv.fandom.com/PBS Kids Sprout TV Wiki]]: {{Creator/Sprout}} and its programming blocks and shows.

* [[https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page All The Tropes.org]], [[https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/All_The_Tropes_Wiki All the Tropes Wiki]], and Wiki/TVTropes: Television tropes ([[NetworkDecay and other]] media tropes).

* [[https://tales-of-the-hunger-game.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Hunger_Games_Wiki Tales of the Hunger Games Wiki]]: ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheHungerGames'', a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' video fanfic about the Victors before (and after) Katniss and Peeta.