Referata

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Referata
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Type of site: Average wiki hosting service • average Fandom competitor
Language: English
Created by: Yaron Koren[1]
Owner: Yaron Koren (2008-2009)
WikiWorks (2009-present)[1]
Date of launch: July 2008[1]
Status: Open, but semi-active to inactive


Referata is a wiki hosting service. It was founded by Yaron Koren, in July 2008, who ran the site independently from 2008 to 2009. Since December 2009, it has been owned by WikiWorks, a MediaWiki company founded by Koren.[1]

In May 2019, Referata was hacked by a user known as Delicious. Although the site became usable again according to Yaron Koren,[2] as of an unknown date, Referata had been closed, and did not reopen until July 15, 2021.[3] However, as of unknown date, the site's central wiki has became inaccessible due to a database issue,[4] although several wikis have remained accessible.[5][6]

Bad Qualities[edit | edit source]

  1. It is a competitor to Fandom with little to no potential, as it does not have as many features as it does. While there are respectable Fandom competitors such as ShoutWiki and Miraheze, those websites had a lot more potential than Referata.
  2. Although this may be due to the site being hacked and/or other issues, it takes several minutes to load each page.
  3. It hosts a fork of Awful Movies Wiki that was made by Pinky Malinky/That One Stickman/ItMeansNothing/SpangusSus because of issues that could have been fixed.[5]

Good Qualities[edit | edit source]

  1. Despite BQ#1, it can still be a somewhat worthy alternative to Fandom, given that it allows more wikis.
  2. Its design is decent.

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