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WikiTeam dumps

Preserved dumps of more than 600,000 wikis, including Fandom/Wikia communities and niche MediaWiki sites, stored on the Internet Archive. The collection is searchable via the Archive's keyless search API, which our site uses directly. The place to look when a wiki has vanished and you need its content back.

Niche text API

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Why it’s useful & how it works

WikiTeam dumps are the archive of last resort when a wiki has gone offline: the project systematically downloads full XML exports of wikis and uploads them to the Internet Archive before they disappear, preserving article text, revision histories, and metadata. This is especially valuable for Fandom and Wikia communities, which have faced shutdowns and consolidations. You search the WikiTeam collection through the Internet Archive's search, which Echo queries directly using its keyless API to surface relevant preserved wikis.

What’s inside

As of 2026, WikiTeam has preserved more than 600,000 wikis, including thousands of Fandom and Wikia communities, niche MediaWiki sites, and several wikifarms. Dumps are stored on the Internet Archive alongside regular Wikimedia Foundation exports.

API access

IA advancedsearch collection:wikiteam

What we measured

Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.

Reachability

Direct request: Responded HTTP 200 231 ms
Through a datacenter proxy: Responded HTTP 200 1.2 s
API, direct: Responded HTTP 200 571 ms
API, through a proxy: Responded HTTP 200 1 s

Did a real search return anything?

Returned results · 435722 results for the sample query · median 829 ms · stable across runs

Sample query: wiki-dokuwiki.fl8.jp-20260303

Benchmark coverage

Found 2 of 2 test items (100%) in the Niche text cluster. Median response 1.1 s.

By how well known the item is: 1/1 well-known, 1/1 mid .

One item it found: wikipedia_pa_medicine_nopic_2018-10.zim

Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.