Top 10 Best Wikis
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia created on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The website is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
It is consistently one of the 10 most popular websites ranked by the Similarweb and former Alexa; as of 2022, Wikipedia was ranked the 7th most popular site. It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through donations. Taking the gold spot, we have the wiki about everything! Wikipedia is one of the few wikis that have ever gained prominence in internet culture. You can look up virtually anything on here. Want to look up WPXW? Go ahead. Wondering about the meaning of the number 8? Well, go ahead and look it up! Wikipedia is undoubtedly the best of the best. Even vandals can elicit some pretty funny reactions.
Of course it's number one! It's like the official library of the Internet.
Here, we have the wiki about Pocket Monsters (Pokemon). It's not just about all 890 (or so) of them. This wiki also covers the people, games, anime, manga, and even companies such as Viz Media and Disney. With every new game that arrives, this wiki becomes stronger than ever. While it is independent from FANDOM/Miraheze/ShoutWiki, meaning outages sometimes occur, the wiki is still jam-packed with information.
Wikipedia is not for schools.
There's almost an article for everything. This wiki must have a lot of true fans who search for reliable information before adding it to a page. Even obscure characters have a page on this wiki.
Unlike the four official ones, this wiki, along with the Talented Deviants wiki, has no political bias and focuses only on the bad actions of users. The Talented Deviants wiki also highlights users who create great drawings (excluding those who waste their talents on less admirable types of drawings) or engage in good actions. Additionally, this wiki is willing to give anyone a chance at redemption for their bad actions, as long as they don't repeat them.
However, they are not flawless and have two problems:
1. Some claims made against a bad user are also made against a good user on the Talented Deviants wiki. For instance, they criticized one user for self-shipping with a fictional character while praising another user for doing the same thing with a different fictional character.
2. The page against crossover pairings shows a disrespectful opinion. To clarify, I personally dislike crossover pairings, but I do not consider them problematic or atrocious like ...more
Another single-subject wiki? Well, it was originally independent before the team at FANDOM decided to merge with Gamepedia. The wiki still holds up to this day and tries to adhere to modern standards. Plus, it's one of the few "official" wikis that actually include sound files. Even some unreleased mobs have audio files, which is actually impressive.
This is a rather underrated (and underappreciated) wiki, part of the Miraheze Reception Wikis. Unlike its sibling, the Rotten Websites Wiki, it isn't controversial. Plus, many sites with good reputations are featured there, and it explains why people enjoy them. The wiki even praises Miraheze's competitors, such as FANDOM (pre-2018 though) and even ShoutWiki, making it way better than many other incredible wikis and users wikis. The absence of TheTopTens isn't a mark against its quality, so stop saying that it is.