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A wiki is commonly defined as:

n. A form of communism that uses a software program that never deletes anything but uses data compression of old edits, so if you fill it with something uncompressable like the exact value of pi, you can shut down a wiki. Similar to a blog, you can google bomb with a wiki by putting lots and lots of links with the same text to a website. Like a blog, wikis are the result of a single individual editor, SlimVirgin on Wikipedia and Taurin Fox on Wikifur and everyone else's edits are changed back to the one editor's. Wiki software uses no SSL so password theft is a regular occurrence - it's believed the one editor of Wikipedia is no longer Jimbo anymore, but Ytcracker who hacked the password from Quasidan's penis who took it from Ann Coulter.

This means that anyone can edit the content within this site - except for you! All your edits will be reverted, articles and pictures deleted, your user page vandalized, your talk page frozen.

If you are not quite sure how to use the site or want more information on how to write articles, we have extensive Help and FAQ sections. These sections will give you an idea about how to make edits and use the site. However, those sections can be edited as well! You are so fucked!

Most wikis run on MediaWiki.

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[edit] Primary RPG classes

Real Editor
A real editor edits in their interests, gets in edit wars over people removing their hard work, fights, cusses, throws tantrums when mad, etc. This type is the only type sincere about helping a wiki and unless someone occasionally vandalizes the userpage of another for reverting them, then they're just a poser. An example is User:Astanhope, regularly blocked for everything including vandalism, [1] and says things like "Why not keep your dick in your pants the next time and spend 20 seconds reading the article the next time before you delete?" [2] but continues useful editing.
Honest Troublemaker
Vandals, trolls, and even those who do sneaky vandalism, as long as they do it before trying to weasel into the power structure, they should be respected for at least being to a degree honest about it.
Power Climber
If you see someone doing boring maintenance or being civil, then they don't care about helping the wiki at all. They're only out to power climb. People in this class don't even want the power as much as the status to compensate for being losers in real life with no significant other and they also have no job or they could afford to buy a real MMORPG. People in this class may also be old people who are retired, their children never call or visit, and a real video game seems too kiddie for them. Example, see this RFA. 83 votes for and none against, and not even a single neutral. Obviously too perfect. That person also has a two year gap in the middle of their contributions during which time they possibly went around vandalizing on sock puppets.
Griefer
This class starts out similar to a power climber, but they don't do as much work and do a lot of sucking up. They make friends with everyone in power so they can bully all the real editors on the site. Where a power climber will watch recent changes and revert vandalism, a griefer will watch recent changes and revert useful contributions from people without a circle of friends on the wiki. This class is drawn to popular wikis, but they have trouble because so are the power climbers since every nerd thinks it's cool to be an admin of Wikipedia. Semi-popular wikis are where the griefer class really shines (a good example is Wookieepedia) because almost nobody cares about being admin of a little shit-wiki, so griefers can come in and eventually replace every single administrator with a griefer and once that is done, it's a military coup and all hell breaks loose.

[edit] Other Wikis

[edit] Lulz Wikis

This is a list of wikis which also aim to document the lulz, memes and drama. Add things to these wikis that don't make the cut for ED but are fine for the wikis below.

[edit] Wikis that Aren't

This is a list of wikis which have wiki in the site name, but are not actually wikis. But they are of course funny. Otherwise, why list them, lol?

  • wikiHowl The How-To Manual YOU Can Laugh At

[edit] Categories

Ok, it goes like this. Wikis, like all websites, can be divided neatly and cleanly into two categories.

  • Category 1: Those that phail.
  • Category 2: Those that phail equally but are convinced they're better than all those in category 1.

Look at a couple of them and call me a liar. Anyway, this is where the shit gets real, right? There's one hell of a fine line between the two categories. Nobody knows which side ED is on. It is said by some prophet guy over 9,000 years ago that whoever finds the answer will be systematically brutalized.



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