Miraheze

Miraheze is a nonprofit, volunteer-run wiki hosting service that provides free hosting for user-created wikis and collaborative projects. It aims to offer an alternative to commercial hosting by emphasizing openness, community governance, and ad-free operation. The platform runs on MediaWiki software, the same engine used by Wikipedia, and supports multiple languages, extensions, and skins.

Wiki on Miraheze can be public or private, with user accounts, page protections, and revision history. The service emphasizes privacy options, flexible permissions, and a decentralized, community-driven approach to policy and software development. It supports a multisite installation that allows many wikis to be hosted under a single account and domain structure.

Governance and funding: Miraheze is organized as a non-profit entity and is maintained by volunteers. It relies on donations and grants to cover operating costs, and its policies and features are developed through community processes, discussions, and consensus, with input from editors, administrators, stewards, and staff.

Impact and reception: It is used by a wide range of communities, including hobbyists, scholars, and fans, as a neutral hosting platform for collaborative knowledge projects not tied to any single encyclopedia. It positions itself as a permissive and open platform for community-created content.