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Thanks I wasn't aware of the differences, just use wikipedia randomly but never been part of the community or active contributor
by agustif 6y ago
Thanks I wasn't aware of the differences, just use wikipedia randomly but never been part of the community or active contributor
- JdeBP 6y agoCount your blessings. It gets a lot more confusing than that. The Wikipedia community, the people that write stuff on Wikipedia wikis, isn't the same as Wikimedia, and the various different language Wikipedia communities even divide themselves up from one another. The Wikimedia Foundation, conversely, doesn't just provide the Wikipedia wikis, but it also provides wikis for projects like Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikisource. It even has its own wiki, the foundation wiki, not to be confused with "Meta", the wiki that I just pointed to. The Wikimedia Foundation also allows, as aforementioned, use of its name by chapters and thematic organizations. And of course, "wiki" is not the abbreviation for "Wikipedia". It's a word for something else. * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don't_abbreviate_as_Wiki.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don't_abbreviate_as_... Then there's a piece of computer software, that one runs on a computer in order to provide a wiki, that is called MediaWiki …
- fakedang 6y agoJimmy Wales, proponent of creative commons, not so creative with names himself.