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PeanutButterWiki or PBwiki is a commercial wiki farm run by three graduates of Stanford University: David Weekly, Ramit Sethi, and Nathan Schmidt. The company claims to be the largest consumer wiki farm currently in operation^{[citation needed]}. According to Alexa, it has greater traffic and reach than competitors Wetpaint and Wikispaces, though less than Wikipedia or Wikia. Presumably the claim to be the largest wiki farm is based on the number of wikis, rather than the overall traffic to those wikis.

PBwiki's investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures and the Seraph Group, as well as angel investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh.^[1]

1 Software and features
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Software and features

PBwiki uses its own proprietary software and wiki syntax, both of which are under continuing development. It recently added WYSIWYG editing.

Users can create free advertising-supported wikis (it appears that PBwiki uses Google's AdSense program to run ads), or pay for a premium wiki to avoid ads. Wikis can be public or private and only viewable by those who know the wiki password.

Premium wikis offer extra features, including enhanced security management with secure HTTP and multiple passwords, CSS support, the ability to hide some pages in an otherwise public wiki, and more generous space allowances.

[edit] History

The beta test of PBwiki was released for public comment on Tuesday, 31 May 2005.^[2]

Legend has it that David Weekly wrote the initial PBwiki implementation as part of one of his SuperHappyDevHouse hackathon events. At another SHDH event, Weekly created singlestat.us, the MySpace status watcher that enjoyed a brief week of fame before being shut down by MySpace.

The site was launched in June 2005, and within 48 hours, over 1000 wikis had been created. Today there are over 150,000 wikis and over a million pages of user-created content.^{[citation needed]}