ShoutWiki (wiki farm, MediaWiki)
- Free allowance
- No published per-wiki storage cap; per-file ceiling is 100 MB (live siteinfo).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-file ceiling is 100 MB
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No published per-wiki storage cap; per-file ceiling is 100 MB (live siteinfo). Free, ad-supported; paid tiers exist for custom domains. unit MB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: 100 MB (104,857,600 B, from siteinfo). request-rate: the wiki HTML and the Action API are behind an Anubis proof-of-work challenge — a POST to /w/api.php returned the 'Making sure you're not a bot!' page instead of JSON, so programmatic access needs a PoW-capable client. Retention: no expiry published. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | No egress meter; images served from images.shoutwiki.com. |
| Per-object cap | per-file ceiling is 100 MB (100000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Standard MediaWiki Action API (1.43.6) + Pywikibot. No rclone backend. |
| Composes with | 100 MB/file x unlimited files x unlimited free wikis. Per-file cap is 10x Fandom's. |
| Reliability | Read path splits: the file CDN (images.shoutwiki.com) answers plainly (probe: 200, 12,472 B, real PNG 150x150) while the API is Anubis-gated. Browse/upload programmatically is the blocker, not retrieval. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&sipro | probe: GET (via fetch proxy) -> 200, MediaWiki 1.43.6, maxuploadsize = 104857600 |
| 2026-10-21 | images.shoutwiki.com/hub/b/bc/Wiki.png | probe: GET -> 200, 12,472 bytes, PNG 150x150 — read path open |
| 2026-10-21 | www.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php | probe: POST (action=upload) -> 200 but body is the Anubis PoW interstitial, not JSON |
| 2026-10-21 | www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services | ShoutWiki listed as a free wiki farm, 'free (with ads)' |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read