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** ''[http://www.homestarrunner.com/ccdo7.html Kitchen Commandos, a really bad idea! It closed down after three months!]''
* Also, [[The Wiki Rule|Wikis]]. Many are started because they have focused subject matter, but many others are founded because [[Wikipedia]]'s standards of notability and citation somehow exclude them, or they think there's something biased about it. For instance, [[Conservapedia]] was created by a group who decried Wikipedia's "evidence" and "objectivity", and made their own online encyclopedia with their ''own'' bias. [[TV Tropes|Another example]] specializes in covering the tropes of popular culture.
** Since various wiki farms allow anyone to start a Wiki, this happens often with those who don't like the guidelines or procedures of aan particularexisting wikiproject. It often doesn't end well, since most of these people are neither suited to be admins nor have the ability to gather followers to their new wiki. [[Wikia]] (now FANDOM) is prone to host this sort of content fork; Wikia is in turn also prone to [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis a long list of communities] leaving or attempting to leave because of [[Executive Meddling]] by staff in the project's content, endless [[Ad Nauseam]] reskins to crowd out content with paid advertising and [[Think of the Advertisers!]] censorship as the author or reader isn't Wikia's client... the advertiser is. Once the disgruntled authors leave to Start My Own, the old wiki is left online as a direct competitor and is usually censored by staff to remove mention of the new project. This harms communities like [[Uncyclopedia]], where the existence of multiple forks of the same project leads to a [[Broken Base]].
** Start My Own has also been necessary where an existing host has killed a project – for instance, the various incarnations of [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] after its original host tried to close it and launch a new site (OhInternet!) in its place.
* In some cases, [[Wikipedia]] will decide they don't want certain types of content (for instance, an entire encyclopaedia in the [[Star Trek|Klingon Language]]). Inevitably, as anyone can download the MediaWiki software for free and deploy it, a smaller and more specialised project will eventually be founded to serve that audience.
** One of the most prominent examples (and far more successful than most) is the ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|''Wookieepedia'']], which came about when Wikipedia purged a great many ''Star Wars'' articles as "non-notable". Copies of the purged articles were part of the core of Wookieepedia in its early days. Now Wookieepedia is the 5th-largest Wiki in existence.
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