wikifarm

English

Etymology

From wiki +‎ farm.

Noun

wikifarm (plural wikifarms)

1. A service that offers wiki hosting.
   • 2005 September, Jeffrey Hastings, “Cool Tools”, in School Library Journal, volume 51, number 9, page 45, column 2:

     Educators interested in experimenting with wiki projects should check out the many “wikifarms” that host wikis for free or for a small fee.

   • 2006, John Marshall Baker, Internet: Systems and Applications, St. Paul, Minn.: EMCParadigm, →ISBN, page 274:

     Wikifarms offer wiki software and hosting services for those who do not have the facilities or technical ability to create and host their own wiki.

   • 2008 June, S. Shenoy, M.W. Lim, “[Scata-Esctaic 2007: Lecture Abstracts] Selecting a Departmental Wiki Solution – Cardiff’s Experience”, in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 252, column 2:

     We reviewed a range of wikifarms for suitability for our department’s needs. Methods: We referred to the list of wikifarms as listed in Wikipedia. By trial and comparison, we identified the features necessary for a departmental wiki. We selected a wikifarm based on these criteria.

   • 2014 November, Rik Hunter, “Hypersocial-Interactive Writing: An Audience of Readers-As-Writers”, in Literacy in Composition Studies, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 40:

     Wowpedia.org is a project fork of Wowwiki.com. […] This forking occurred in October 2010 after a dispute between most of the Wowwiki administration—including the wider community—and Wikia, the wikifarm hosting Wowwiki.

   • 2018, Sven Hertling, Heiko Paulheim, “DBkWik: A Consolidated Knowledge Graph from Thousands of Wikis”, in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI:

     Popular knowledge graphs such as DBpedia and YAGO are built from Wikipedia, and therefore similar in coverage. In contrast, Wikifarms like Fandom contain Wikis for specific topics, which are often complementary to the information contained in Wikipedia, and thus DBpedia and YAGO.

Further reading

• Wiki hosting service on Wikipedia.Wikipedia