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* [http://detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/ Detective Conan World Wiki]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'', ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' and Gosho Aoyama's works.
* [http://detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/ Detective Conan World Wiki]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'', ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' and Gosho Aoyama's works.
* [http://digimon.wikia.com/ Digimon Wiki]: ''[[Digimon]]''.
* [http://digimon.wikia.com/ Digimon Wiki]: ''[[Digimon]]''.
** Alternatively, [http://wikimon.net/ Wikimon].
** Alternatively, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130212000137/http://wikimon.net/ Wikimon].
* [http://dragonball.wikia.com/ Dragon Ball Wiki]: the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series.
* [http://dragonball.wikia.com/ Dragon Ball Wiki]: the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series.
* [http://duelmasters.wikia.com/ Duel Masters Wiki]: ''[[Duel Masters]]'', a Anime/Comic Wikia and TCG/OCG card database.
* [http://duelmasters.wikia.com/ Duel Masters Wiki]: ''[[Duel Masters]]'', a Anime/Comic Wikia and TCG/OCG card database.
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== Literature ==
== Literature ==
* [http://baroquecycle.wikia.com/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle_Wiki The Baroque Cycle Wiki]: [[The Baroque Cycle]].
* [http://baroquecycle.wikia.com/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle_Wiki The Baroque Cycle Wiki]: [[The Baroque Cycle]].
* [http://wiki.lspace.org/ Discworld Wiki]: ''[[Discworld]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705084014/http://wiki.lspace.org/ Discworld Wiki]: ''[[Discworld]]''.
* [http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/ The Dresden Files]: ''[[The Dresden Files]]''.
* [http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/ The Dresden Files]: ''[[The Dresden Files]]''.
* [http://finnegansweb.com/wiki/ Finnegan's Wiki] ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''.
* [http://finnegansweb.com/wiki/ Finnegan's Wiki] ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''.
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** [http://memory-beta.wikia.com/ Memory Beta]: ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]].
** [http://memory-beta.wikia.com/ Memory Beta]: ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]].
** [http://stexpanded.wikia.com/ Star Trek Expanded Universe]: ''Star Trek'' Fan Productions. Not to be confused with Memory Beta (above), the wiki for the various novels and comics that make up the ''literary'' [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]].
** [http://stexpanded.wikia.com/ Star Trek Expanded Universe]: ''Star Trek'' Fan Productions. Not to be confused with Memory Beta (above), the wiki for the various novels and comics that make up the ''literary'' [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]].
** [http://stowiki.org/ Star Trek Online Wiki]: ''[[Star Trek Online]]''.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20171121121900/http://stowiki.org/ Star Trek Online Wiki]: ''[[Star Trek Online]]''.
* [http://thementalist.wikia.com/ The Mentalist Wiki]: ''[[The Mentalist]]''.
* [http://thementalist.wikia.com/ The Mentalist Wiki]: ''[[The Mentalist]]''.
* [http://powerrangers.wikia.com/ The Morphing Grid]: Despite [[Power Rangers|its name and URL]], it covers ''[[Super Sentai]]'' as well as the ''[[Power Rangers]]'' franchise.
* [http://powerrangers.wikia.com/ The Morphing Grid]: Despite [[Power Rangers|its name and URL]], it covers ''[[Super Sentai]]'' as well as the ''[[Power Rangers]]'' franchise.
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* [http://adwr.wikia.com/ A Dance With Rogues Wiki]: A wiki for the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' [[Game Mod]] ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]''.
* [http://adwr.wikia.com/ A Dance With Rogues Wiki]: A wiki for the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' [[Game Mod]] ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]''.
* [http://deadisland.wikia.com/ Dead Island Wiki]: ''[[Dead Island]]''
* [http://deadisland.wikia.com/ Dead Island Wiki]: ''[[Dead Island]]''
* [http://deadrisingwiki.com/ Dead Rising Wiki] ''[[Dead Rising]]'', moved off Wikia in December and is now independent.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209185816/http://deadrisingwiki.com/ Dead Rising Wiki] ''[[Dead Rising]]'', moved off Wikia in December and is now independent.
* [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/ Diablo Wiki]: The ''[[Diablo]]'' series.
* [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/ Diablo Wiki]: The ''[[Diablo]]'' series.
** And [http://diablo.wikia.com/ another one].
** And [http://diablo.wikia.com/ another one].
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* [http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/ Mabinogi World], ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]''
* [http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/ Mabinogi World], ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]''
* [http://masseffect.wikia.com/ The Mass Effect Wiki]: ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
* [http://masseffect.wikia.com/ The Mass Effect Wiki]: ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
* [http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Master_of_Magic_Wiki Master of Magic Wiki]: ''[[Master of Magic]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170208133825/http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Master_of_Magic_Wiki Master of Magic Wiki]: ''[[Master of Magic]]''
* [http://megaman.wikia.com/ Mega Man Knowledge Base]: ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''.
* [http://megaman.wikia.com/ Mega Man Knowledge Base]: ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''.
* [http://metalgear.wikia.com/ Metal Gear Wiki]: ''[[Metal Gear]]''.
* [http://metalgear.wikia.com/ Metal Gear Wiki]: ''[[Metal Gear]]''.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105142416/http://en.mystlore.com/wiki/Main_Page MYSTlore]: "A wiki for all things ''[[Myst]]'', D'ni, and ''Uru''."
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105142416/http://en.mystlore.com/wiki/Main_Page MYSTlore]: "A wiki for all things ''[[Myst]]'', D'ni, and ''Uru''."
* [http://nethackwiki.com/ NethackWiki]: The ''[[Nethack]]'' wiki.
* [http://nethackwiki.com/ NethackWiki]: The ''[[Nethack]]'' wiki.
* [http://wiki.nexuswar.com/ Nexus War Wiki]: The wiki for the MMORPG ''[[Nexus War]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150211073956/http://wiki.nexuswar.com/ Nexus War Wiki]: The wiki for the MMORPG ''[[Nexus War]]''.
* [http://niwanetwork.org/ Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA)]: Not a wiki (though they do intend to put one on the hub site eventually), but an independent network of them. Founded by [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net Bulbapedia], [http://zeldawiki.org/ Zelda Wiki], and [http://mariowiki.com/ Super Mario Wiki] as a backlash against Wikia, as laid out in the [http://niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=98.0 NIWA manifesto]. Currently comprised of 18 wikis, including the above three.
* [http://niwanetwork.org/ Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA)]: Not a wiki (though they do intend to put one on the hub site eventually), but an independent network of them. Founded by [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net Bulbapedia], [http://zeldawiki.org/ Zelda Wiki], and [http://mariowiki.com/ Super Mario Wiki] as a backlash against Wikia, as laid out in the [http://niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=98.0 NIWA manifesto]. Currently comprised of 18 wikis, including the above three.
* [http://nookipedia.com/ Nookipedia] ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
* [http://nookipedia.com/ Nookipedia] ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
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* [http://wikiindex.org/ Wikiindex]: A wiki about... wikis!
* [http://wikiindex.org/ Wikiindex]: A wiki about... wikis!
* [http://wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
* [http://wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
** See also [http://wikimedia.org/ the other Wikimedia Foundation projects].
** See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20190904133753/https://www.wikimedia.org/ the other Wikimedia Foundation projects].
** Once Wikipedia decided that their Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense page was counterproductive... [http://bjaodn.org/ guess it.]
** Once Wikipedia decided that their Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense page was counterproductive... [http://bjaodn.org/ guess it.]
* [http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/ Zero Punctuation]: ''[[Zero Punctuation]]''.
* [http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/ Zero Punctuation]: ''[[Zero Punctuation]]''.

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There's a wiki for that.

There is no area of interest, no matter how narrowly defined, where a person cannot put up a wiki for it and attract at least a few editors with similar interests. Increasingly, in fact, there is a chance that someone already has put up a wiki for it. For example, here's one for cacti. The plants.

In the early days of the Internet, there was a similar phenomenon, the "everything has its own home page" rule. Anyone with enough HTML savvy and a powerful enough interest in one particular subject could and often would create a site dedicated to it. This was largely how the early Web was forged, in fact. All the stuff we know and love today—e-commerce, social networking—that came later. Except porn. Porn was there from the beginning.

With the advent of Wikipedia, the playing field changed. Rather than rely on a collection of sites each written by one person with questionable expertise, users could find most of the information they needed in an article written, edited, and fact-checked by an entire userbase of people with questionable expertise, but all on one easy-to-remember site. The interest in hand-crafted "fan sites" waned.

However, a number of factors kept Wikipedia from being a perfect replacement for the old system. A desire for greater detail on the topic than Wikipedia is willing to allow, for one. Schisms or differing schools of thought on the topic was another. Fan-made wikis sprang up to bring back the world of homemade sites with the added benefits of the wiki model.

The "wiki-sphere" is becoming a vast depository of information at all levels of detail. The encyclopedic wikis are collecting a great breadth of topics at an increasingly shallow level of detail, and the topic-intensive wikis are gathering all the details.

Not all Wikis are on the major search engines, though. Corporations use wikis behind firewalls, the American CIA uses one to collate data among agents and analysts, and even publishers of dead-tree books use them to coordinate edits among authors, editors and copy editors.

Fan-made wikis are usually made on wiki farms, such as Wikia, or else are hosted on a preexisting fansite. Recently, organisations such as NIWA have spoken out against the commercialization that takes place on wiki farms, and have encouraged fans to set up their own websites.

Wikis can reach truly huge sizes. To put them up as candidate for a Doorstopper is an understatement. See the list of largest wikis. Note: If you're looking for TV Tropes, they're on the list at the bottom. "All The Tropes" hasn't even been noticed yet. The first list only has MediaWiki wikis.

Examples of The Wiki Rule include:

General

Anime and Manga

Comic Books

Fan Works

  • Sisterhood of Doom Wiki: For Desperately Seeking Ranma.
  • Averted for Undocumented Features, the fan work which is probably most likely to benefit from one. Primary writer Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins has discouraged a dedicated UF wiki for years on the grounds that one would likely bring attention to the work from intellectual property lawyers, which he would rather avoid.

Films -- Animated

Films - Live-Action

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

Newspaper Comics

Tabletop Games

Toys

Video Games

Webcomics

Web Original

Western Animation

Real Life

"It was big and affected almost every nation in the world. Lots of people were poor."

  1. Largely a relocated Hetalia Archives after the creators decided to move in protest of the direction Wikia was taking with its ads.