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If you've stumbled upon this site, you might be asking, "How are you different
;Modern Wiki Engine
:We have a website that supports multi-level namespaces, and where any character can be in
:[[User:Vorticity|I]]'ve chatted over dinner with Patrick Michaud, the author of PmWiki. I like him a lot. And his wiki software has seen better days. He's moved on to become the [http://perl6.org/ Perl 6] project, and so we should move on too.
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:If you want to help with the upkeep of our servers, you can [[m:Donate|Donate]] to Orain to help cover our costs. Or not. It's entirely up to you.
;We're
:We want to create a place where people are free to offer literary criticism (and in-jokes) about any work of fiction -- not just those that are approved as goodthink by the [[Censorship Bureau]]. This doesn't mean that we are free from censorship either -- we just have much less. Sexually explicit material will be removed, but discussion of explicit works is encouraged.
:This policy derives from our sense of [[wikipedia:academic freedom|academic freedom]] -- the idea that no researcher should be barred from any field of inquiry. While we're a lot more informal than a scientific paper, we believe that there is value to be had in looking at the tropes in famous works like ''[[Deep Throat (Film)|Deep Throat]]'', ''[[La Blue Girl (Anime)|La Blue Girl]]'', and ''[[Lolita (Literature)|Lolita]]'' (yes, even that was briefly banned). These works may be popular with some, but they address an important part of the human condition.
;Debate
:That's right -- this wiki is not a hugbox ''for the administrators''. We want people to feel comfortable disagreeing with the administrators without fearing retribution. Far, far too many people have been banned from TV Tropes for expressing opinions contrary to the staff. We even have a [[All The Tropes:Policy for Wiki Staff|Policy for Wiki Staff]] designed to prevent these kind of abuses.
:It's not a free-for-all, but TVT-style censorship is not the answer. Ultimately, the community will make the rules that it wants to see. All the administrators are there for is to ensure that the wiki space is open and fair to everyone. This is not "my site", this is ''everyone's'' site.
;Collaborative Culture
:While Fast Eddie [https://encyclopediadramatica.es/File:Fast_Eddie%27s_epic_asspain.png has described] the Creative Commons license used on
:We're 100% non-profit, so we could easily take the content from the current version of TV Tropes with its non-commercial license. We choose not to do so, because we want the knowledge on our site, such as it is, to be as freely available as possible. Instead, we use the same Creative Commons license as Wikipedia, so that content may be freely interchanged between our two sites and through any other means.
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