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How many wikis can you fit on one page?

Posted by Angela Beesley on September 5, 2006 (Wiki, Wikia, Wikipedia)

How many wikis can you fit on one page appears to be the question Wired are going to end up answering as their interesting attempt at having a wiki-edited article about wikis is spammed to death by a hundred people each of whom want to make sure “their” wiki is linked to. After just over 200 edits, the article has 51 links (compared to 20 in the original) and this is after Kernigh boldly removed a huge chunk of text containing another 37 links. Wikispaces.com is linked 7 times, and Wikipedia.org is linked 5 times. I’d like for there to be some mention of Wikia in there, but only if there’s a way of that adding something to the article - something which would actually be useful or interesting to the reader - and not just as yet another “and here’s my favourite wiki” link.
Esquire’s attempt at something similar seemed far more successful - perhaps because it was only edited by Wikipedians who didn’t have a lot to promote, other than Wikipedia, which was the focus of the article anyway. You can see the results of that at “Improve this article about Wikipedia“.