Category:Referata

Referata – wiki databases — offered hosting of semantic wikis; allowing you to add, structure, and store data so it can be managed, shared, browsed, and analysed in as many ways as you choose, within a wiki environment.

Referata was primarily run by Michael D Suarez, along with it's founder Yaron Koren, and was hosted by WikiWorks.[1] It provided free wiki hosting for public wiki sites (aka a 'wiki farm') using the MediaWiki wiki engine, along with the Semantic MediaWiki plugin and associated Semantic Wiki suite of extensions, and also previously utilised the OpenID universal login. Referata also offered commercial paid-for wiki hosting, with enhanced^{[clarify please]} facilities. All Referata sites supported Google Analytics.

Combined with the collaborative abilities of a wiki, a site hosted on Referata could serve as a true user-powered database, with a minimal amount of setup work or technical knowledge. Referata wiki sites could be public or private, open or closed. Public wikis could be set up and run at no charge, but had a limit of 100 MB file storage. There were three paid-for service levels; at 20, 50, and 80 US$ per month.[2]

As of November 2016, the Referata developers and other staff appear to have at least partially abandoned the 'home' Referata (meta) wiki site. The feature requests page has dozens of requests that have seemingly been ignored, and the recent changes list is mostly full of new user account creations. It seems like the site has become just a dormant host for individual wiki sites.

Referata's servers and databases were hacked in 2019, which took all Referata wikis offline and the service was never fully restored. A small number of large wikis reportedly received backups, but most content was lost. As of 2025, Yaron Koren has stated that he does not currently have any plans to restart the service.

See also

• User:Emijrp/Referata — for a bot-generated list of all wikis hosted on Referata.
• List of over 150 wikis at Referata.com — from the WikiTeam at GitHub.com

External links

• WikiStats v2.2 – List of Referata wikis — sortable list table of Referata wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
• Farm: Referata (id: 1597) — list of wiki sites (active and defunct) hosted on the Referata wiki farm, at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites
• Referata wikifarm dump 2011-12-04 — by Hydriz from WikiTeam, at Archive.org
• Referata wikifarm dump 2013-08-24 — by Hydriz from WikiTeam, at Archive.org