The Wikimedia Foundation operates a number of other free knowledge projects: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Wikiversity. Wikipedia is operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which was founded by Jimmy Wales in 2003. Most of these projects are completely unrelated to Wikipedia. Among them are Wikihow, Wikitravel, WikiAnswers, and Wikia.
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Moreover, there are many, many content websites that use “wiki” in their names. They have names like Wikidot, TWiki, or Wikispaces. Today, you can go to the “ WikiMatrix” website to compare them all.
#Twiki vs mediawiki software
By that time, the word “wiki” was used already by a ton of different wiki software implementations. Wikipedia was created six years later, based on the same principles. This software allowed people to instantly edit web pages, collaboratively. The words “wiki wiki” on a shuttle bus in Honolulu inspired software engineer Ward Cunningham to name a revolutionary piece of software – the “ WikiWikiWeb” – in 1995.
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In the Hawaiian language, wiki means “quick”. If anyone has a claim to the word “wiki”, it would be the Hawaiian people. Occasionally even major news sources like the BBC get this wrong, which can lead to serious confusion, even when it’s quickly fixed. Wikipedia shares the generic “wiki-” prefix in its name, but there’s no relation.
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Anyone who’s been watching the news will have heard about Wikileaks by now.