LyricWiki

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**LyricWiki**


URL	http://www.lyricwiki.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet lyrics database
Registration	Optional
Available language(s):	Multilingual (6 active Main Page translations)
Owner	Motive Force LLC [1]
Created by	Sean Colombo
Launched	April 2006
Current status	Active

LyricWiki.org is a site run by a MediaWiki wiki server. The site's purpose is to be "a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads". It is the 26th largest wiki, according to the list of largest wikis.

1 History
2 Features
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The site was created in April 2006 and soon after won the DreamHost Site of the Month award for April 2006.^[1] LyricWiki has received a great deal of press coverage around the world including an article on Wired Magazine's blog ^[2] and the popular blog Lifehacker.^[3] As of August, 2006, LyricWiki became the official lyrics provider of the social playlist-sharing site FIQL.

[edit] Features

Over 240,000 content pages
"Song of the Day" & "Album of the Week" featurettes
No-banner, no-popup policy (site currently sports a small, unobtrusive AdWords banner)
Feed of top iTunes songs for quick access on Main Page
SOAP Webservice [2]
Media player plugins and extensions for Winamp, Amarok, Windows Media Player, musicCube, foobar2000, etc. [3]