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{{quote|''"At three in the morning I looked at my clock and thought, 'Good god! What on earth have I been doing for four hours?!' I looked at my screen. 'Plot summaries of [[Power Rangers]] episodes.' Damn."''|'''Anonymous Wikipedia addict'''}}
The Other Wiki. The wiki that most people are familiar with. The one that isn't us.
Wikipedia is the most famous wiki out there, and is mostly responsible for inspiring the creation of other wikis ([[Older Than They Think|although it was not the first]]). It presents its information as an encyclopaedia and focuses mainly on real-life information.
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Given Wikipedia's role as a central information source, you can probably gain more info on the "what" of (for example) [[Star Trek]] from it than you can from actually watching the show, and that's nice. Here?
Here, you can get a glimmering of ''why'' the show is like that.
Here at All The Tropes, we only care about how things apply to fiction. ''Don't'' just tell us the facts; tell us the memes, tell us the archetypes, tell us the catchy ideas and symbolic roles that get planted in people's heads. Got the kernel of an idea bouncing about your head? Throw it down here and see what grows. If we're lucky, our [[Neologism]] for it will catch on. (And quite a few have already.)
Wikipedia has [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|an entry on itself]] and its history, for further reading.
Wikipedia also has [[wikipedia:TV Tropes|an entry on the original TV Tropes wiki]], but not one on All The Tropes. Yet. It also lists ATT in its [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Alternative outlets|directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there. See the [[We Are Not Alone Index]] for tropes that have Wikipedia articles.
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* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]
* [[Fancruft]]: [http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced] by ''[[xkcd]]'' (again), and occurs in reality on some pages. The page for Earth used to have "DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH '[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Mostly harmless.]]' EVER." hidden in the markup. It still has "[[Serious Business|Humorous references to the Douglas Adams novel Mostly Harmless are inappropriate content for this article]]" on the talk page, and is semi-protected so that only registered users can edit it (for several reasons).
* [[Fannage]]: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The wiki craze started here, but this was not the first wiki. The [[Ur Example]] was Ward Cunningham's Portland Pattern Repository.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: And how!
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* [[Lumper vs. Splitter]]: Or [[wikipedia:m:Mergism|Mergist]] vs. [[wikipedia:m:Separatism|Separatist]].
* [[Locked Pages]]: Several forms, often involving different levels of user access required to edit.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid|Defied]] — each article is supposed to stand on its own, and references to "this website" are discouraged.
** In a something of a [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] [[Running Gag]], any article about computers or websites is likely to have Wikipedia mentioned somewhere in examples. Like web browser screenshots showing Wikipedia's main page — or [[Droste Image|the very page about the browser itself]].
* [[Meido]]: The various maintenance bots are sometimes personified as such.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Yes, they have their own one. In this case: Wikipe-tan.
* [[All The Tropes:
* [[Pothole]]: Called a "piped link" over there, and [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Piped link#Intuitiveness|discouraged]].
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Don't stuff up beans up your nose|Defied]].
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