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Find the right wiki — and know what you're actually getting. Every listing tells you who runs it, what license it uses, and what software keeps it alive. 100+ wikis. 3 languages. Ranked by real votes — not by who pays.
Everything's free to browse. Spend a deep dive when a wiki deserves a closer look. Voting and submissions keep the index honest — because rankings should be earned.
Filter by topic, language, license, or platform. Each card shows you at a glance who governs it and how open it really is.
License, software, founding year, scope, governance — side-by-side. Same facts, plain table. No marketing copy hiding the catch.
Explorer ($1/mo) gives you a real vote and lets you submit a wiki. Researcher ($5/mo) opens the board where curators hash it out.
Six we keep coming back to — chosen by editors, not by algorithm.
The largest multilingual general-reference encyclopedia. Open editing meets layered governance and citation policies.
Collaboratively edited knowledge graph feeding Wikimedia projects and linked open data apps — CC0.
Task-oriented Linux documentation that stays current. Command examples with explicit prerequisites.
Large collaborative reference for the Star Trek universe — distinguishes canon from production context.
Documentation and tagging conventions for the OSM ecosystem — community-negotiated vocabulary.
Peer-reviewed, continuously updated — invited experts, subject editors, archived versions.
Highest votes first. Featured breaks ties. Nobody can buy their way up — voting takes Explorer ($1), so spam stays low and signal stays high.
Multilingual general reference — baseline for moderation & licensing comparisons.
Structured data for apps and research — CC0 dedication, query service.
Gold-standard Linux docs — rolling-release, prerequisites explicit.
Moderated, high-signal. Curators, editors and owners swap notes. Read everything free — post when you're Explorer ($1/mo).
Discussing architectures, D1 sharding, ingestion of the long tail. Propose deep-dive targets — voting stays honest.
DokuWiki flat files → R2 effortlessly; MediaWiki needs D1 sharding for revisions. War stories welcome.
Serving llms.txt + WebMCP at root cut scrapers 80%. Let us standardize across indexed wikis.
We review every submission by hand — license, scope, and whether it's genuinely useful. If it clears, it gets a real profile (not a scraped stub). Explorer ($1) to submit. Answer in 72 hours.
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Every entry is written and checked by hand — governance, license, software, scope, and a sense of what it's really for. No scraping. Images are ours (/assets/og-image.svg and /assets/images/wiki-atlas.svg), never stock filler. The leaderboard is earned with votes. The board is gated so threads stay worth reading. That's how an index stays useful.
Browse everything free. Explorer gets you a vote and a submission; Researcher unlocks unlimited deep dives and the curator board.
Search, compare, read open summaries.
Your vote actually moves the ranking. Submit a wiki, too.
For editors who live in the footnotes.
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