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 ==further organisation questions==
-Should the wiki description page be in the [[:Category:Wiki Engine]]? I would say not, otherwise we end up with each wiki engine listed twice (since each also appears as a sub category). -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 05:56, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)
+Should the wiki description page be in the [[:Category:Wiki engine]]? I would say not, otherwise we end up with each wiki engine listed twice (since each also appears as a sub category). -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 05:56, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)
 ==Unpopular wiki engines==
-How to handle wiki engines where we find only one wiki using it. Maybe the article page should be added to [[:Category:Wiki Engine]], and we don't bother creating a category for it? -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 05:56, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)
+How to handle wiki engines where we find only one wiki using it. Maybe the article page should be added to [[:Category:Wiki engine]], and we don't bother creating a category for it? -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 05:56, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)
 :Yes, that sounds fine.
 :Alternatively, we could pretend that all those unique wiki engines are all using the same wiki engine. We would name that wiki engine something like "Unique wiki engine".
 :Or "Unpopular wiki engine", if we wanted to criticize their creativity :-).  --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 04:18, 5 Feb 2006 (EST)
 ::"Rare wiki engine" would be short and polite (NPOV) while still accurate. "Unique" would not be good applied to a class, especially if two or more were sufficiently similar that neither should be called "unique" and/or if one might find a second user and therefore definitely not be unique in one sense. [[User:Robin Patterson|robinp]] 01:51, 7 Feb 2006 (EST)
-:::Actually there's already something called [[:Category:Proprietary]] which was presumably created with this kind of intention. I reckon maybe we should put these wikis into the that category, then just mention on their article page, that they are powered by proprietary software called 'blahblah'. Note this will significantly reduce the number of subcategories in the 'Wiki Engines' category. -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 10:05, 13 Feb 2006 (EST)
+:::Actually there's already something called [[:Category:Proprietary]] which was presumably created with this kind of intention. I reckon maybe we should put these wikis into the that category, then just mention on their article page, that they are powered by proprietary software called 'blahblah'. Note this will significantly reduce the number of subcategories in the 'Wiki engines' category. -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 10:05, 13 Feb 2006 (EST)
 ==Naming of wiki engines==
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 I keep seeing "Wikia" in the "Wiki engine:" slot of pages at WikiIndex, but when I check those wikis at wikia.com i see "Powered by MediaWiki".
 #Is it ok to update those articles at WikiIndex from "Wikia" to "MediaWiki"? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] ([[User talk:EarthFurst|talk]]) 09:28, 30 April 2016 (PDT)
-#Should Wikia even be listed in [[:Category:Wiki Engine]]? Seems to me to be a wiki host, not an engine. (not even Wikipedia's article about Wikia says "wiki engine") --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] ([[User talk:EarthFurst|talk]]) 09:28, 30 April 2016 (PDT)
+#Should Wikia even be listed in [[:Category:Wiki engine]]? Seems to me to be a wiki host, not an engine. (not even Wikipedia's article about Wikia says "wiki engine") --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] ([[User talk:EarthFurst|talk]]) 09:28, 30 April 2016 (PDT)
 The Wikia-Software is certainly based on MediaWiki. But it is so heavily modified, that for us, it counts as its own wiki engine. At the same time wiki is a [[Wiki farm]]. We do not have any clear policy or any guidances at all to clearly decide or distinguish what is a modified or simply customized engine and what is a new engine. On the [http://api.wikia.com/wiki/Legacy_API#MediaWiki_API_Documentation API-Wiki of Wikia] it is said: "Since Wikia is built on top of MediaWiki, the MediaWiki API can be used to access most of the data on our sites. In addition, the LyricWiki API gives access to LyricWiki and the Wikia Custom API provides access to many of our Wikia-specific features".  [[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 10:01, 30 April 2016 (PDT)
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