Wikipedia's distinction shown on the table between a "conservative" and an "inclusive" number of pages originated in 2002 with the replacement of UseModWiki's spontaneous wiki modes with MediaWiki's embedded namespaces. The Wikipedia logo. ... UseModWiki is a wiki engine developed from 1999 to 2000 by Clifford Adams in the Perl programming language. ... MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... In general, a namespace is an abstract container, which is or could be filled by names, or technical terms, or words, and these represent (stand for) real-world things. ...
Wikipedia-influenced wiki Susning.nu (Swedish, 2001), the Russian Wikipedia's fork WikiZnanie (2003), and wikis using MediaWiki, all have namespaces as well. Current logo of Susning. ...
For Wikimedia projects: The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ...
The conservative number for the Wikipedia excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages about Wikipedia. This may not be true for other wikis.
The conservative number for Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary excludes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages.
The Wikipedia logo. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey> (according to Ward Cunningham) is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content and is especially suited for constructive collaborative authoring. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...
The table of the largest wikis has been moved to the MetaWiki in order to simplify maintenance. Follow the link on the right to access it. Image File history File links Metawiki. ...
See also
Meatball:BiggestWiki
Linear-regression forecast of overtakings among Wikipedias
Wiki' with an upper case W and WikiWikiWeb are both used to refer specifically to the first wiki ever created (25 March, 1995).
A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a very simple, easier to use database.
Wikiwiki was the first Hawaiian term he learned on his first visit to the islands, when the airport counter agent directed him to take the wikiwiki bus between terminals.
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