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  • Comment: There still do not appear to be multiple independent reliable sources offering in-depth coverage of this topic. —Alalch E. 21:10, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: The references in this draft often do not substantiate the information that is cited from them. This means they are not verifiable. I do not believe the sources used are reliable either. 11WB (talk) 20:31, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Miraheze
Miraheze logo
Screenshot
Screenshot of the Meta Miraheze home page
Company typeNot-for-profit charitable organization
Available inMultilingual
Country of origin
England, United Kingdom
OwnersWikiTide Foundation
Miraheze Limited (former)
FoundersJohn Lewis & Ferran Tufan
Key peopleOwen Baines (Secretary, Treasurer and Chair)
RevenueDonations
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (requirements for editing differ between wikis)
LaunchedJuly 2015; 11 years ago (July 2015)
Current statusActive
Content license

Miraheze is a free, ad-free wiki hosting service and wiki farm founded in July 2015.[1] It is operated by the WikiTide Foundation, a United States-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.[2] As of early 2026, Miraheze hosts over 22,000 wikis, supports more than 60,000 wiki requests, and has over 680,000 registered users, with funding provided entirely through community donations.[3] The website is powered by MediaWiki.

History

Miraheze was founded in July 2015 by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan.[4] It was named after two Wikimedia Foundation servers, "mira" and "heze".[5] In November 2019, Miraheze became a registered not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom as Miraheze Limited.[6]

In May 2019, the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence based in Estonia created the Cyber Law Toolkit using Miraheze with the aim of providing a repository of information accessible to professionals and students regarding online security.[7][8]

Miraheze has previously been used by several Scottish non-governmental organizations, including Scotland's International Development Alliance, which previously held an Edit-a-thon on the platform in 2020.[9] In the same year, students from The Arts Foundation, in collaboration with Chisenhale Studios, created a public repository of information using Miraheze that catalogued the work of various British artists as part of the alternative art program “Into the Wild”.[10]

Later in 2021, more British organizations would begin using the platform as a database, including Tees Valley Arts, an arts charity based in Redcar.[11] The platform has also been used by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology to implement the “Tutorials in Bibliotheken” initiative supported by the German National Library of Science and Technology.[12][13]

Services and features

The platform has tools for facilitating the customization of encyclopedia content, as well as a variety of tools for translating and formatting articles.[14] Additionally, the platform maintains an inactivity policy where websites that have not been maintained or edited for a period of 60 days are considered for deletion.[15]

Content

Since 2021, Miraheze has become home to wikis closed by Fandom, deemed to violate their community creation policy. One prominent example is the Monster Girl Encyclopedia.[16] In 2024, the collaborative project “Sexypedia”, a repository dedicated to cataloging information about the online phenomenon Tumblr Sexyman, moved to Miraheze after sudden changes in Fandom's policies.[17]

The platform has hosted content related to sexuality and gender, including the Non-Binary Wiki, which documents information about gender identity and language use.[18] They have also become home to various long-standing LGBTQ+ wikis forcefully merged into one and purged of many articles by Fandom, such as the LGBTA Wiki and EZGender Wiki.[19]

Role in education

The platform had previously been used by several US universities, such as Wright State University, to help instructors review student contributions in real time,[20] Miraheze is also listed by the Semantic Web library at UCLA.[4] European universities have also used the platform to share information, including the University of Hildesheim[21] and is used by wikis such as Rosetta Code.[22]

A student-led wiki for Northeastern University students called Huskypedia was started in 2022 on Miraheze, in face of dissatisfaction with existing online resources of student information provided by the university.[23]

In addition, the platform has also been used for teaching in Latin America, specifically to give courses on article writing and wikitext editing for students at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) as an alternative to the courses provided by Portuguese Wikipedia.[24]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2026/Feb/25/dedicated-digital-archive-to-document-art-of-theyyam-across-kerala
  2. ↑ "Miraheze". MediaWiki. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  3. ↑ "Free Wiki Hosting, No Ads - Miraheze". Miraheze. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  4. 1 2 Rhonda, A. (2022). "UCLA Semantic Web and Linked Data LibGuide" (PDF). University of California via eScholarship. p. 60.
  5. ↑ "Build Your Own Wiki Platform And Grow Your Community With Miraheze". Website Planet. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "Incorporation of Miraheze Limited". Companies House. 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  7. ↑ Sterling, Bruce. "Interactive Cyber Law Toolkit". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "International Cyber Law in Practice: Interactive Toolkit". Cybil Portal. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "Improving Policy Coherence in Scotland Wiki" (PDF). Scotland's International Development Alliance. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  10. ↑ "AF 2020 Fellow Esther McManus creates artist's wiki with Chisenhale Studios". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  11. ↑ "The Arts in Teesside". Tees Valley Arts. 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  12. ↑ Frank, Ninon Franziska; Waldschmidt-Dietz, Frank; Leisering, Philipp; Senst, Erik (2021). Das Graswurzel-Netzwerk "Tutorials in Bibliotheken". Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB). Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  13. ↑ Knüttel, Helge; Semmler-Schmetz, Martina; Metzendorf, Maria-Inti (1 September 2020). "Medizinbibliotheken in Deutschland als Unterstützerinnen Evidenzbasierter Medizin: Situation und Entwicklung". GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information; 20(1-2):Doc07. 20 (1–2): Doc07. doi:10.3205/mbi000464. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  14. ↑ Schaunitzer, Georg; Dall’Olio, Raffaele; Vejsnæs, Flemming; Brodschneider, Robert (2025). "WikiBeedia.eu: A Multilinguistic Encyclopedia on Bees and Beekeeping". Bee World. 0: 1–3. doi:10.1080/0005772X.2025.2505351. ISSN 0005-772X. For technical implementation we decided to use the wiki platform "miraheze.com" as it offers an uncomplicated approach to the customization of our encyclopedia and furthermore offers a very good support service.
  15. ↑ "Protokoll der 36. Sitzung der Arbeitsgruppe Informationskompetenz (AGIK) im BVB". Bavarian Library Network (in German). 8 July 2019. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 3 August 2025. Grundsätzlich verfolgt Miraheze die Politik, Wikis, die 60 Tage keine Aktivität vorweisen, zu löschen. Auf Anfrage wird dies für das ikgroßegruppenwiki nicht durchgeführt werden
  16. ↑ "Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To 'Fetish' Content". Kotaku. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  17. ↑ Bumas, Adam. "How Fans Saved Sexypedia From Being Erased From the Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 3 August 2025. The day Fandom denied their appeal, Lee officially requested space from Miraheze, a nonprofit hosting service, as a new home. The community lent their full support to the decision, and for the next two weeks the Discord was a hive of activity.
  18. ↑ Merlini, Sara (2020). Género e transgressão: des/fazendo o masculino e o feminino em Portugal e no Reino Unido (PDF) (in Portuguese). ICS, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. p. 69. ISBN 978-972-671-599-3. Em que realizámos uma análise documental e mediática da plataforma Nonbinary wiki (nonbinary.miraheze.org). Selecionámos este caso como exemplo ilustrativo do discurso e movimento não binário.
  19. ↑ Holmes, Juwan J. (22 February 2022). "What's Happening with the LGBTQIA+ Wiki?". INTO. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  20. ↑ "The Wright State - Lake Campus (2016-2017 Scholarly Review)" (PDF). Wright State University - Lake Campus. p. 24. Retrieved 2 August 2025. The private wikifarm Miraheze can be configured to allow instructors to view student contributions in real time. Advanced students are quite proficient at reading chapters and producing quality questions, with little or no supervision.
  21. ↑ Franziska Frank, Ninon (20 December 2021). ""Dazu haben wir ein Video!" – Tutorials als asynchrone Schulungsmittel" ['We have a video on this!'– tutorials as asynchronous training tools]. German Medicial Science (in German). 21 (3): Doc26. doi:10.3205/mbi000515. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  22. ↑ "Rosetta Code". Rosetta Code. 24 August 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  23. ↑ Bak, Jesica (1 November 2022). "Student-created Huskypedia aims to provide resources, information to students". The Huntington News. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  24. ↑ Marques, Juliana Bastos; Santangelo, Federico (15 December 2022). Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-350-26946-0. However, in order to control the access of the selected texts for review, while also avoiding disruption of regular work on Wikipedia, I chose to conduct the experiment on another website, identical to Wikipedia in code, navigation, and layout, but not subject to the same content rules, called Miraheze.

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