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| 3 | %%MOD NOTICE: Examples have been removed after it was decided that Wikipedia is not a tropable work. Do not re-add them. |
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| 6 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wikipedia.png]] |
| 7 | [-[[caption-width-right:260:[[ThatsNoMoon Our memory banks can't repel information of\ |
| 8 | that magnitude!]]]]-] |
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| 10 | The Other Wiki. The wiki that most people are familiar with. The one that ''isn't'' us. |
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| 12 | [[http://wikipedia.com Wikipedia]] is [[TropeCodifier the most famous wiki out there]], and is mostly responsible for inspiring the creation of other wikis ([[OlderThanTheyThink although it was not the first]]). It presents its information as an encyclopedia and focuses mainly on real-life information. |
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| 14 | Given Wikipedia's role as a central information source, you can probably gain more info on the "what" of (for example) ''Franchise/StarWars'' or ''Franchise/StarTrek'' from it than you can from actually watching the show, and that's nice. Here? |
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| 16 | Here, you can get a glimmering of ''why'' the show is like that. |
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| 18 | Here at Website/TVTropes, we care only 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 around your head? Throw it down here and see what grows. If we're lucky, our {{neologism}} for it will catch on. |
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| 20 | ... Where were we? Oh yeah. |
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| 22 | Wikipedia was started in 2001 by Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales. In addition to popularizing wikis with Wikipedia, he also started the website Wikicities (later Wikia, and currently [[http://fandom.com Fandom]]), which is where you'll find most wikis that aren't Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites ever, it gets thrown around in the media sometimes; see WikiTropes. (SmallReferencePools is in full force here.) |
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| 24 | Wikipedia also has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives,]] encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there. See the WeAreNotAloneIndex for tropes that have Wikipedia articles. |
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| 26 | Oh, and if you're a frequenter of both TV Tropes and Wikipedia, try not to [[JustForFun/WikipediaBehavior mix up the two]]! |
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