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''If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but Wikihack seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the [[Wikihack:Sandbox]]. If you want to learn about this wiki, read [[Wikihack:About]]. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wiki, from the perspective of this wiki.''
 
''If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but Wikihack seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the [[Wikihack:Sandbox]]. If you want to learn about this wiki, read [[Wikihack:About]]. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wiki, from the perspective of this wiki.''
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== Founding of this wiki ==
 
== Founding of this wiki ==
 
This wiki has an entry in the Central Wikia at [[w:NetHack]]. It was founded at 11 October 2005 by [[User:Sgeo]]. Users immediately began the task of [[Meatball:SeedPosting|SeedPosting]] the wiki with new articles.
 
This wiki has an entry in the Central Wikia at [[w:NetHack]]. It was founded at 11 October 2005 by [[User:Sgeo]]. Users immediately began the task of [[Meatball:SeedPosting|SeedPosting]] the wiki with new articles.
  
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== Origin of wiki ==
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== Contrasting Wikipedia ==
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The wiki concept starts with the WikiWikiWeb, nominally the "Portland Pattern Repository". You can find it at [[Wiki:WelcomeVisitors]]. The intention was to discuss "[[Wiki:PeopleProjectsAndPatterns|PeopleProjectsAndPatterns]] in [[Wiki:SoftwareDevelopment|SoftwareDevelopment]]" by letting users write and edit wiki pages. As the WikiWikiWeb grew, people established several [[Wiki:SisterSites|SisterSites]] for other topics.
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It is interesting to note that several popular Wikia behave like Wikipedia.
  
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One of those sister sites was Meatball, which you find at [[Meatball:MeatballWiki]]. Meatball is about online communities and [[Meatball:BarnRaising|BarnRaising]]. Their wiki script, [[Meatball:UseModWiki|UseModWiki]], became the basis for online reference site Wikipedia, which you find at [[Wikipedia:Main Page]] -- an attempt to use wiki to build a free encyclopedia, distributed through the [[Wikia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]. They took many features from UseMod and put it in their wiki script, [[Wikia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]].
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Some wikis at Wikia tend to emulate Wikipedia by calling themselves encyclopedias. The Star Wars wiki, ''Wookieepedia'' -- at [[w:c:StarWars]] -- does this extremely. A read through [[w:c:StarWars:Wookieepedia:Welcome, newcomers]] shows Wookiepedia not only considers "neutral point of view" to be policy, but links to Wikipedia for the policy.
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=== MediaWiki ===
 
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Wikipedia and MediaWiki advanced the wiki concept several ways. To make a link, WikiWikiWeb editors [[Meatball:SmashWordsTogether|SmashWordsTogether]] to form a [[Wiki:WikiWord|WikiWord]]. Wikipedia instead adopted the UseMod support for the [[Meatball:FreeLink|FreeLink]]; you use two pairs of square brackets, such as <tt><nowiki>[[soldier ant]]</nowiki></tt> for [[soldier ant]]. The other advancement to implement a [[Meatball:CopyLeft|CopyLeft]], the GNU FDL, thus causing the wiki to be [[free]] and giving users the [[Meatball:RightToFork|RightToFork]].
 
  
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Wikipedia also introduced the concept of [[MetaWikipedia:neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] or NPOV, an attempt to produce a useful reference from editors who disagree. However, NPOV introduces some serious restrictions on content. One result of this was Wikinfo, which you find at [[Wikinfo:Main Page]], an encyclopedia and fork of Wikipedia which drops the NPOV restriction by switching to [[Wikinfo:sympathetic point of view|sympathetic point of view]].
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Though some wikis apparently do want to follow Wikipedia policy, this approach has several problems. It requires consensus among wiki users that they want to be like Wikipedia. It causes problems, because Wikipedia has a community that wants to build a free encyclopedia, and that is not the purpose of most other wikis. However, this wiki welcomes users from Wikipedia and other wikis.
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As it is, Meatball chose to retain its [[Meatball:CamelCase|CamelCase]] WikiWords, and recommended against the [[Meatball:FreeDocumentationLicense|FreeDocumentationLicense]].
 
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=== Wikipedia is not typical ===
 
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Wikia, which you find at [[w:Wikia]], and of which Wikihack is a part, takes the MediaWiki engine from Wikipedia, and applies to a collection of hundreds of wikis. Wikia also has ''free links'', and it also uses the ''GNU FDL copyleft''.
 
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Some wikis at Wikia tend to emulate Wikipedia by calling themselves encyclopedias. The Star Wars wiki, ''Wookieepedia'' -- at [[w:c:StarWars]] -- does this extremely. A read through [[w:c:StarWars:Wookieepedia:Welcome, newcomers]] shows Wookiepedia not only considers "neutral point of view" to be policy, but links to Wikipedia for the policy.
 
  
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Though some wikis apparently do want to follow Wikipedia policy, this approach has several problems. It requires consensus among wiki users that they want to be like Wikipedia. It causes problems, because Wikia has a community that wants to build a free encyclopedia, and that is not the purpose of most other wikis. Some editors at Meatball stated that [[MeatBall:WikipediaIsNotTypical|WikipediaIsNotTypical]], but not necessarily for the same reasons mentioned here.
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== Links ==
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* [[Wikia:c:Internet:Wiki]] ''wiki and its origin''
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* [[Meatball:WikipediaIsNotTypical]]
  
 
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Revision as of 01:47, 8 April 2006

Wikihack is a wiki; it is a web site that allows all readers, including you, to edit almost any page. The process is simple: click "edit" at the top of a page, make some changes in the box that appears, and then save them.

If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but Wikihack seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the Wikihack:Sandbox. If you want to learn about this wiki, read Wikihack:About. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wiki, from the perspective of this wiki.

Founding of this wiki

This wiki has an entry in the Central Wikia at w:NetHack. It was founded at 11 October 2005 by User:Sgeo. Users immediately began the task of SeedPosting the wiki with new articles.

Contrasting Wikipedia

It is interesting to note that several popular Wikia behave like Wikipedia.

Some wikis at Wikia tend to emulate Wikipedia by calling themselves encyclopedias. The Star Wars wiki, Wookieepedia -- at w:c:StarWars -- does this extremely. A read through w:c:StarWars:Wookieepedia:Welcome, newcomers shows Wookiepedia not only considers "neutral point of view" to be policy, but links to Wikipedia for the policy.

Though some wikis apparently do want to follow Wikipedia policy, this approach has several problems. It requires consensus among wiki users that they want to be like Wikipedia. It causes problems, because Wikipedia has a community that wants to build a free encyclopedia, and that is not the purpose of most other wikis. However, this wiki welcomes users from Wikipedia and other wikis.

Links

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