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In my mind there's nothing about locking editing behind account creation that would discount this in being a wiki.


Only because the wikimedia foundation isn't taking people to court over the trademark. But their original vision was/is a website that is freely editable by the audience.


Not sure what you're getting at.

Wikimedia Foundation did not invent the word "wiki". They were not the first to apply the word to a collaboratively edited web page. And they do not assert rights to any words that would conflict with "Wikenigma".

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_trademarks


Wikimedia didn't invent wikis.

In fact wikipedia has many festures that are completely against the ethos of the first wiki.




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