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by teawrecks 1422 days ago
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.
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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.