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The '''founder''' of a [[wiki]] site is the [[user|person]], or {{tag|Wiki People|people}}, who originally created and started the wiki. | The '''founder''' of a [[wiki]] site is the [[user|person]], or {{tag|Wiki People|people}}, who originally created and started the wiki. | ||
Founders are distinct from [[leader]]s, although sometimes the two are the same person(s). In the case of [[WikiWikiWeb|Ward's Wiki]] (the original [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]]), [[Ward Cunningham]] is both the founder ''and'' one of the leaders of creating content. In [[:Category:Founded in 2000|2000]], [[Sunir Shah]] [[fork]]ed some of the content to create [[MeatballWiki]] which had few real leaders. Another example of a founder/leader is [[ClericofMadness]], who created the [[Creepypasta Wiki]]. [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] was co-founded by [[Larry Sanger]] and [[Jimmy Wales]] in [[:Category: | Founders are distinct from [[leader]]s, although sometimes the two are the same person(s). In the case of [[WikiWikiWeb|Ward's Wiki]] (the original [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]]), [[Ward Cunningham]] is both the founder ''and'' one of the leaders of creating content. In [[:Category:Founded in 2000|2000]], [[Sunir Shah]] [[fork]]ed some of the content to create [[MeatballWiki]] which had few real leaders. Another example of a founder/leader is [[ClericofMadness]], who created the [[Creepypasta Wiki]]. [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] was co-founded by [[Larry Sanger]] and [[Jimmy Wales]] in [[:Category:Founded in 2001|2001]], but neither is very active today: Sanger left shortly after creating Wikipedia, and subsequently founded [[Citizendium]] in [[:Category:FoundedIn2006|2006]]; and Wales has mostly focused on outreach efforts, and subsequently co-founded [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] with [[Angela Beesley Starling|Angela Beesley]]. | ||
Here on WikiIndex, we can highlight the founder of a wiki we index by adding the <tt>|founder = </tt> field (and their name!) in the [[Template:Wiki|wiki infobox]]; or, alternatively, we can provide more detail in the prose of the article (outside of the infobox), along with the date of foundation by using [[template:Founded by]]. | Here on WikiIndex, we can highlight the founder of a wiki we index by adding the <tt>|founder = </tt> field (and their name!) in the [[Template:Wiki|wiki infobox]]; or, alternatively, we can provide more detail in the prose of the article (outside of the infobox), along with the date of foundation by using [[template:Founded by]]. | ||