Forum:How many active wikis in wikia?

Just a question. Cheers Dan Bolser 20:51, April 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * When Wikia was upgraded to MW 1.16, Sannse mentioned that there were about 190,000 wikis on Wikia. It's been a month or so since then, so the number's likely gone up.
 * Out of curiosity, how many of those are actually active though. For argument's sake, let's say that "Active" means it could be listed on this page (i.e. more than 10 active contributors) --Tetrap 01:54, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Most of the old hub pages are woefully out-of-date or are rarely kept up-to-date. I wouldn't trust Hub:Most active communities. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 11 Apr 2011 10:27 PM Pacific
 * I'm not sure how that relates to my question of how many of the 190,000 wikis are active. I was pointing to that hub because it has the guideline on it about having more than ten active users, not because I believed it was an exhaustive list of active wikis. --Tetrap 21:05, April 12, 2011 (UTC)

I wrote an 'activity monitor' script for a bunch of MWs that I could use to automatically generate statistics for each wiki in wikia, however, I don't find a comprehensive list of wikis anywhere, so it's a non-starter. I'd like to ask all sorts of questions, such as, how many wikia wikis have more than 100 registered users, or more than 10,000 edits, etc. If someone can point me at a list of wikis, I'll write a trimmed down version of my activity monitor and dump the results somewhere appropriate. --Dan Bolser 08:00, April 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can try this. But I can't vouch for it being up to date or 100% accurate. Sovq 08:33, April 12, 2011 (UTC)

Want a list? Make it your self. http://community.wikia.com/api.php scroll down to "list=wkdomains" for how it works. little bit of looping, and some from/to math, you can get your list. Try not to get the whole list at once, it will time out. I try not to go more then 10k at once

As for the updated count, http://community.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=wkdomains&wkcountonly=1&wkto=500000&wkactive=1 -> 240233 (note: the wkactive here is not activity on the wiki, its a flag for a non-closed wiki. we have maybe 1000 non-open wikis for various reasons, some are recent spam deletes waiting to be purged, some are old wiki stuck in the cracks from older management system, we clean them out every couple months)

We're looking into ways to use code and not human time to answer the OP's question --Uberfuzzy 12:24, April 13, 2011 (UTC)