Comments on: Free hosted wikis: comparison of wiki farms

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By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:26:06 +0000

Anyone have a verdict on Netcipia in terms of ease of use?

By: Edu wiki

Edu wiki — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:16:48 +0000

In my case everything I need is a sidebar and advanced list pages, lists that are automatically generated basead on dynamic criterias. The mediawiki default category lists is fixed with headings, subheadings and 3 columns, it’s really not a solution for specific scenarios. And templates and transclusion is more than welcome as well.

Some farms display too many ads that disturbe the wiki’s content, others can’t handle large wikis with either thousands of pages or thousands of people generating database traffic overloads. Other put many features that I wouldn’t need, things like pop ups for making this, rollovers for that, buttons that I never use, etc. And lastly, limits like 100mb and/or 100 pages are really unfriendly.

By: Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:07:35 +0000

Free and ad free wikis using wikipedia markup are available to educators here.

http://www.mycompwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

Mycompwiki is mostly geared toward teachers of writing and design, but all educators are welcome. This includes anybody who just wants to learn wikipedia markup :)

wiki on!

mobius

By: Kumar

Kumar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:21:33 +0000

I could get ad free wiki from http://thewikiz.com. Semantic wiki farms, Drilldown, Daily sitemap generation, 2 days support for back end maintenance script execution.

By: Tom Haws

Tom Haws — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:47:45 +0000

I just found http://www.yourwiki.net/wiki/YourWiki I am very impressed. Community! Mediawiki! Adsense (no banners)! New!

I have a hunch this is the one to watch. Small but healthy and active.

By: Tom Haws

Tom Haws — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:49:27 +0000

The ads at Wikia are unacceptable, but Wikia is run my a corporation.
Bluwiki is a sole proprietorship, but its ads are more discrete.

By: Shivam Vij

Shivam Vij — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:03:14 +0000

What about Wikia and Bluwiki?

By: Sergiu Dumitriu

Sergiu Dumitriu — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:47:01 +0000

Although XWiki stops the free “professional” hosting on the http://www.xwiki.com farm, there is still the free farm on http://www.myxwiki.org which is more actively maintained and upgraded, but which comes with no uptime guarantees. Still, IMO the new farm is a much better alternative to the old farm, since it gets updated in a few days after each release.

By: Pascal

Pascal — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:24:44 +0000

Xwiki will stop free hosting. From my inbox:

“We are stopping our free hosting service in order to provide our
customers and users with an improved hosting experience.
Our new entry-level hosting offering is available for 600€ / year for
companies and 300€ / year for associations.
Additionally, we can provide you with professional support and services.
We’re looking forward getting back in touch with you and receiving your
instructions about what should happen to your website.

Our free service will stop on February 13, 2009. Please note that you
can export your wiki’s data as a XAR from the administration panel.”