Draft:Miraheze

Miraheze is a non-profit wiki hosting service provided by Miraheze Limited, founded in July 2015 and run by a small group of volunteers. Miraheze hosts over 4000 wikis on the MediaWiki software.

History
Miraheze was founded in July 2015 by John Lewis and Ferran Tufan and within a couple of weeks they drafted the support of a couple of existing Orain volunteers. The goal was to create a community-led wiki farm based on a Wikimedia community model of governance where the community is consulted in all decision making. At the time John was volunteering for the Wikimedia Foundation and deploying two servers there named after stars Mira and Heze and suggested the name Miraheze for the new wiki farm.

Miraheze opened wikis to the public on the 3rd or 4th of August of 2015.

In November 2019, Miraheze became an registered non-profit in the UK as Miraheze Limited.

Management
Miraheze is community-led, wikis are autonomous and the users are consulted in all decision making. Stewards manage the community aspects and day to day admin tasks, the technical staff focus on the backend.

Features
Wikis are created upon request, and are approved by volunteer users known as wiki creators. Wikis are created and hosted for free and can be either public or private. Miraheze is supported by it's community and has no advertising. members can contribute their time, money, or expertise.

Miraheze allows wiki owners to choose to implement or remove a variety of MediaWiki extensions that Miraheze offers on their wikis, as well as choose the licensing status of their wiki. They also allow wiki owners to put a custom domain to their wikis. Wikis hosted on Miraheze can also use images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Miraheze uses Phabricator in order for volunteer users to collaborate on the source code of the site, as well as for users to request and propose new features to be added.