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A Femi is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers. In information technology, a server is a computer system that provides services to other computing systems—called clients—over a network. ... A wiki (IPA: <WICK-ee> or <WEE-kee>[1]) is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. ...
While it is technically permissible to create new pages and edit old ones on almost any wiki, it is considered bad form to do this if the edits do not reflect the purpose of the wiki. This is called being off topic. Some wikis may not allow articles that are off topic and delete them. So it is often best for a user wanting to create a wiki to host his/her own. However, this may require the use of a server as well as wiki software; since not everyone has their own server or skills to set up wiki software, a viable alternative is the use of a wiki farm, or community wiki space. ... ...
Some of the external links below give clues as to where users can find hosting space for wikis. Users who require large spaces should either host their own, or make suitable arrangements with the providers.
A wiki farm is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers. ... A typical server farm. ... This is not a complete list of wikis (sites based on the wiki model); only wikis with their own entry in Wikipedia are listed here. ...
It is suggested that documentation authors avoid the agricultural terms, as tempting as they may be, and keep in mind that a wiki in a wikifarm is like a server in a serverfarm.
The home wiki needs special consideration because it holds the components that are shared by or affect the operation of all the wikis in the farm.
This is sometimes used to indicate a process, sometimes used to mean a single wiki in a farm, and sometimes refers only to the shared components of a farm.
A Wikifarm is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting.
While it is technically usually feasible to create new pages, and edit old ones on almost any wiki, it is considered bad form to do this if the edits do not reflect the purpose of the wiki.
The communities associated with some wikis may react very aggressively to the creation of such pages, and delete them almost as rapidly as they are created.
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