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#It is multilingual, meaning pretty much anyone in the world can edit it, even non-English speakers; it also has multiple versions of the site for each language, with English Wikipedia being the most common.

#It revolutionized wikis as a whole and is responsible for making them popular.

#*It also inspired the creation of sites that allow you to create your own wiki, such as Fandom (known initially as Wikia and also co-founded by Wales), [[ShoutWiki]], [[Miraheze]], Wikidot,edit this. Info and Telepedia

#*It also inspired the creation of sites that allow you to create your own wiki, such as Fandom (known initially as Wikia and also co-founded by Wales), [[ShoutWiki]], [[Miraheze]], Wikidot, edit this. Info, and Telepedia.

==Bad Qualities==

#Some pages aren't well-detailed and have barely any information. One of them used to be the LU (biscuits) page, in which there was a dispute over whether LU is a French, Pakistani, or American brand despite it being French due to being part of the culture of Nantes. The page has fortunately since been fixed.

#There was an incident involving the then-contributor of the site Ryulong, and Crash Override Network.

#The admins, bots and users on the site can occasionally cause problems, such as ClueBot NG, NinjaRobotPirate, and MaterialScientist. Even standard users such as Island92, Serols, and Asher Heimermann also can sometimes cause problems. Some users can be considered unfriendly to some due to their political agendas.

#The admins, bots, and users on the site can occasionally cause problems, such as ClueBot NG, NinjaRobotPirate, and MaterialScientist. Even standard users such as Island92, Serols, and Asher Heimermann also can sometimes cause problems. Some users can be considered unfriendly to some due to their political agendas.

#*Asher, in particular, is an issue as he added a removed America link back and called the person who deleted it a vandal. He was once blocked for advertising and disruptive editing back in 2007.

#*An admin by the username SummerPhD<sup>v2.0</sup> threatened to block a user by the name of The Man from Snowy River for "vandalism", when all they did was add pertinent cast members to a page about the film ''Benji the Hunted''. Summer dismissed the user's arguments by claiming that being uncredited automatically makes an actor "minor", and therefore, does not belong on a certain film article. She also ignored the user's advice that he got most of the information from the director of the film, thus proving that the names of the actors were indeed sourced.

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 #It is multilingual, meaning pretty much anyone in the world can edit it, even non-English speakers; it also has multiple versions of the site for each language, with English Wikipedia being the most common.
 #It revolutionized wikis as a whole and is responsible for making them popular.
-#*It also inspired the creation of sites that allow you to create your own wiki, such as Fandom (known initially as Wikia and also co-founded by Wales), [[ShoutWiki]], [[Miraheze]], Wikidot,edit this. Info and Telepedia
+#*It also inspired the creation of sites that allow you to create your own wiki, such as Fandom (known initially as Wikia and also co-founded by Wales), [[ShoutWiki]], [[Miraheze]], Wikidot, edit this. Info, and Telepedia.
 ==Bad Qualities==
 #Some pages aren't well-detailed and have barely any information. One of them used to be the LU (biscuits) page, in which there was a dispute over whether LU is a French, Pakistani, or American brand despite it being French due to being part of the culture of Nantes. The page has fortunately since been fixed.
 #There was an incident involving the then-contributor of the site Ryulong, and Crash Override Network.
-#The admins, bots and users on the site can occasionally cause problems, such as ClueBot NG, NinjaRobotPirate, and MaterialScientist. Even standard users such as Island92, Serols, and Asher Heimermann also can sometimes cause problems. Some users can be considered unfriendly to some due to their political agendas.
+#The admins, bots, and users on the site can occasionally cause problems, such as ClueBot NG, NinjaRobotPirate, and MaterialScientist. Even standard users such as Island92, Serols, and Asher Heimermann also can sometimes cause problems. Some users can be considered unfriendly to some due to their political agendas.
 #*Asher, in particular, is an issue as he added a removed America link back and called the person who deleted it a vandal. He was once blocked for advertising and disruptive editing back in 2007.
 #*An admin by the username SummerPhD<sup>v2.0</sup> threatened to block a user by the name of The Man from Snowy River for "vandalism", when all they did was add pertinent cast members to a page about the film ''Benji the Hunted''. Summer dismissed the user's arguments by claiming that being uncredited automatically makes an actor "minor", and therefore, does not belong on a certain film article. She also ignored the user's advice that he got most of the information from the director of the film, thus proving that the names of the actors were indeed sourced.