Miraheze

Miraheze is a wiki farm that is funded solely by donations. It is currently hosting wikis (update number).

History
Miraheze was founded in July 2015 by John Lewis (John) and Ferran Tufan (Southparkfan). Within a couple of weeks, they enlisted the support of a couple of existing Orain volunteers. The goal was to create a community-led wiki farm based on a Wikimedia community governance model 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 the stars Mira and Heze and suggested the name Miraheze for the site.

Opening
Miraheze opened wikis to the public on August 3, 2015. In November 2019, Miraheze became a UK registered non-profit organization as Miraheze Limited.

Orain
Orain, another similar wiki farm (no ads and completely donation-funded wiki farm hosting original non-modified mediawiki wikis) which was founded in 2013 inspired Miraheze. In September 2015, Orain's servers were hacked and completely destroyed. A lot of Orain wikis moved over to Miraheze as a result. An Orain user who is also on Miraheze, mh:meta:User:Agent Isai, archived the Orain meta and it can be accessed here, although some pages are private.

Achievements

 * On 3 January 2022, Miraheze hit the 5,000 wikis hosted mark, although it had already hit the mark in early 2020. However, a very large portion of the 5,000 wikis in early 2020 were wikis that were supposed to be deleted, but a glitch in the dormant wiki deletion system didn't mark them as deleted, so it actually didn't reach 5,000 wikis, but counters display it had.

Notable wikis
Miraheze has some notable wikis:
 * Miraheze has 5 officially maintained wikis, two core wikis and three officially maintained repository wikis:
 * Login Wiki - Global user pages are hosted here
 * Miraheze Meta - The center of all of Miraheze
 * Miraheze Commons - The central repository for files. Files uploaded to this wiki will appear on every other Miraheze wiki, similar to Wikimedia Commons
 * Template Wiki - The central repository for templates
 * Dev Wiki - The central repository for CSS files, Javascript files, user scripts, and gadgets
 * The largest Miraheze wikis are:
 * Polandball Wiki - 148,276 pages