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[[File:MediaWiki.svg|thumb|right|200px|[[w:Mediawiki|Mediawiki]] is by most metrics the most successful wiki implementation.]] | |||
The word '''''"wiki"'''' comes from Hawaiian expression ''"wiki wiki"'' == to do something quickly. Wikicode is perhaps the quickest way for a human to enter hypertext. There are more than one wikicode in existence but quite naturally the one used in [[w:Mediawiki|Mediawiki]], the software that runs Wikipedia and many other wikis. | The word '''''"wiki"'''' comes from Hawaiian expression ''"wiki wiki"'' == to do something quickly. Wikicode is perhaps the quickest way for a human to enter hypertext. There are more than one wikicode in existence but quite naturally the one used in [[w:Mediawiki|Mediawiki]], the software that runs Wikipedia and many other wikis. | ||
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This wiki has [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons InstantCommons] activated so all [[w:Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]] images can be used on this wiki with the normal syntax: <nowiki>[[File:Filename.png|thumb|right|100px|Caption text]]</nowiki> | This wiki has [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons InstantCommons] activated so all [[w:Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]] images can be used on this wiki with the normal syntax: <nowiki>[[File:Filename.png|thumb|right|100px|Caption text]]</nowiki> | ||
== Lists of wikis == | |||
* https://wikiapiary.com lists Mediawikis and offers statistics. | |||
== WikiStudy list of wikis == | == WikiStudy list of wikis == | ||
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* [https://wikivoayage.org Wikivoyage.org] - A content creator fork back as Wikitravel went corporate. | * [https://wikivoayage.org Wikivoyage.org] - A content creator fork back as Wikitravel went corporate. | ||