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The encyclopedia project [[Wikipedia]] is the most popular wiki on the public web in terms of page views,<ref>[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines Top Ten Wiki Engines]</ref> but there are many sites running many different kinds of wiki software. Wikis can serve many different purposes both public and private, including knowledge management]], notetaking, community websites and intranets. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.
Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". "Wiki" (pronounced
== Wiki Engines Used For Troping ==
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PmWiki PmWiki] - A wiki engine created by Patrick Michaud, inventor of the Perl programming language. [[TV Tropes]] uses a modified form of this engine for their wiki and started the troping wiki as a concept.
* [[MediaWiki]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki (WP Page)] - is the same wiki engine used by [[Wikipedia]] and many other wikis all over the internet. The Tropes Mirror Wiki (now [[All The Tropes]] [Wikia]) on Wikia uses a modified variant of the software, and the one used on Miraheze is based on stock MediaWiki, though with many custom scripts and extensions.
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