Wiki

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

• Wikia:c:Internet:Wiki wiki and its origin
• Meatball:WikipediaIsNotTypical