How to make a free wiki

Having your own website helps you to do whatever you want. For example, your own blog, a website that helps you to find more friends, or even a project like Wikipedia! Some people might want to have their own wiki, here is how to make a free one without a domain name (only MediaWiki will be covered in this article).

Method

 * 1) Find a free wiki provider (See How to make a free wiki), such as editthis, fandom, or Miraheze. If you have edited Wikipedia before, the recommended provider would be miraheze as they are constantly updated to new MediaWiki versions. The other advantages includes no pop-up advertisements, mobile view supported.
 * 2) Have a idea of what your wiki will be like. After that, check to see that if there is your wiki already. If no, create an account in your wiki provider.
 * 3) There should be a special page for you to request your wiki. If you are using Miraheze, request a wiki at Special:RequestWiki, don’t just search “RequestWiki”. You can’t find anything if you do that. i
 * 4) Choose your wiki name and your subdomain, and will it be a private wiki. Normally it will be like this:
 * (your chosen subdomain). .org
 * E.g. example.fandom.com
 * 1) Your wiki will be created by a Wiki creator (if you are using Miraheze) after some time. Just wait. If you are not using Miraheze, your wiki will be automatically created.
 * 2) After your wiki is created, you can design your Main page, your userpage and your own logo so that the visitors will know who you are. Also remember to choose a license such as Creative Commons, which is used by Wikipedia.
 * 3) You can create your content now.

Free wiki hosting list

 * Miraheze
 * Non-profit wiki farm with no ads and free wiki hosting. Subdomains (*.miraheze.org) are included by default and custom domains and custom SSL certificates are possible for wikis. Custom settings which includes extreme amount of options including logo, favicon, extensions, etc. can be enabled via ManageWiki. Wikis can either be public or private. All sites are in HTTPS so no worries about security. It had been the best wiki farm here, but due to high intervention of stewards on miraheze, it can’t get a higher score than high tier.


 * ShoutWiki
 * Free wiki hosting supported by advertisments (though it can be disabled by paying) on a subdomain of *.shoutwiki.com. No HTTPS support so your passwords may be hacked. Choice of skins include Aurora, CologneBlue, Monaco, Monobook, Modern, Nimbus, Truglass, and Vector (mobile view also supported). Only 5 wikis per user are allowed. Hosts wikis for individuals, companies, school, universities and communities. Wikis can be created through Special:CreateWiki. Offers three types of wikis: public wikis, private wikis and school/university wikis. Not recommended while given the fact that they show ads, no https support, bad community support as not much users engaged in this platform. The only advantage here is that they support lots of skins (unlike fandom) but still much inferior to Miraheze. Mid tier.


 * Fandom
 * A profit based platform which supports free wiki hosting. It is generally supported by advertising on subdomains of fandom.com. Uses a fork of MediaWiki with a choice of WYSIWYG or wikitext editing, easy image and video insertion, the Oasis skin (other skins are no longer available), and a number of extensions. Wikis are owned by Fandom rather than the community or the founder, which means that the community can decide to leave but they cannot have the wiki deleted or advertise their new location. All content is freely licensed under the Creative Commons license to make it compatible with the Wikimedia projects. Offers free database backups, full CSS customization, spam blacklisting and vandal patrol, help from Community Team. Site CSS is heavily restricted by the customization policy. Only recommend it if you like their interface, but because the bunch of ads and less-user control (you can’t even manage the wiki logo), low tier.


 * Wiki-site.com
 * Another provider that doesn’t support https. MediaWiki with WYSIWYG farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection user rights control. However only monobook interface is supported and they don’t even plan to upgrade their MediaWiki version. Interface in 150 languages. Fast setup. A free *.wiki-site.com domain is offered. Google text-ads added to the right sidebar. Very low tier.


 * Referata
 * Nothing to say on this one. Just try to click on the link it takes 3 minutes to load the website. If you can’t use a service, it is useless, therefore shit tier.


 * EditThis.info
 * No https at first. A very easy and fast way to set up your wiki. You won't get a subdomain for your wiki (for example, if the name of the wiki you create was Example, the url of it would be editthis.info/example/). The only available skin for your new wiki would be Monobook. You don't need to be a registered user to add a wiki and you can create as many wikis as you want. But again, no user control and very old MediaWiki version plus no subdomain support, very low tier.


 * Myht
 * This is not really a wiki farm, but you can get a subdomain and change its database into MediaWiki’s. Only for advanced users. If you intended to create a wiki that you have full control, this is for you! Finally, Highest tier in list!