LyricWiki
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LyricWiki (also known as Lyrically or LyricWikia) was an online wiki-based lyrics database and encyclopedia. In March 2013, it was the seventh largest MediaWiki installation with over 2,000,000 pages including 1.5 million songs. Prior to its shutdown, users on the site could view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which were also available for purchase from links on the site. Users were told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, and copyright violations were removed upon request. All the lyrics on LyricWiki were licensed through LyricFind.
Key facts
- Website.name
- LyricWiki
- Website.logo
- LyricWiki Logo 2014-present.png
- Website.screenshot
- LyricWiki Main Page.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 250px
- Website.caption
- Screenshot of the main page
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Internet lyrics database
- Website.language
- Multilingual (13 active Main Page translations)
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- Fandom
- Website.author
- Sean Colombo
- Website.current_status
- Offline
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Application programming interface and apps
- Edit lock and closure
- References
LyricWiki (also known as Lyrically or LyricWikia) was an online wiki-based lyrics database and encyclopedia. In March 2013, it was the seventh largest MediaWiki installation with over 2,000,000 pages including 1.5 million songs. Prior to its shutdown, users on the site could view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which were also available for purchase from links on the site. Users were told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, and copyright violations were removed upon request. All the lyrics on LyricWiki were licensed through LyricFind.
==History== On April 6, 2006, Sean Colombo, then a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, created LyricWiki. Soon after, the site won the DreamHost Site of the Month award for April 2006 which helped jump-start its growth since winners of the contest are announced in DreamHost's monthly newsletter, which claimed to have over 50,000 subscribers at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LyricWiki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.