MicroWiki

English

Etymology

From micro- (“pertaining to an aspect of micronationalism”) +‎ wiki. First attested before 2 August 2004 by Sander Dieleman—the erstwhile website MicroWiki.tk.

Proper noun

MicroWiki (plural MicroWikis)

1. (micronationalism, now rare) A generic name for an encyclopaedia or wiki that pertains to micronationalism.
   • 2004 August 19, “Main Page”, in MicroWiki.tk‎^[1], archived from the original on 2004-08-20:

     MicroWiki is, or at least is supposed to be a micronational encyclopedia in the style of Wikipedia.

   • 2005 June 13, Bill3000, “Why "Scott Alexander" is futile”, in Imperial Republic of Shireroth‎^[2]:

     [URL for a Google Search query] search result is the former MicroWiki entry "Scott Siskind: REDIRECT Scott Alexander." Plus even without that there's a lot of micronational stuff with Scott Siskind. It's cached, so that means it's not going away. Mwahaha.

   • 2006 December 11, Lachlan of Aerlig, “Re: Microwiki II”, in micronations.net forums‎^[3], archived from the original on 2007-06-07:

     I have created a main page too now for the new Microwiki.^[sic] Now to populate the database.

   • 2007 September 14, Yan, “National values:”, in Micro-Nations.com‎^[4], archived from the original on 2008-08-02:

     So I hope, egotrips having been properly enjoyed, that Sinclair from microwiki^[sic] stop overreacting over nothing.

   • 2008 October 8, Maximos, “Micronations.net is dead”, in Micras forums‎^[5]:

     The news feed is what I found the most valuable MNN resource- as well as MicroWiki, I should add :) At the end of the day, MNN was a great resource, but wasn't flexible enough to meet the needs of changing times.

   • 2009 August 9, George [Cruickshank], “MicroWiki Policy Shift”, in List of Micronations Forum‎^[6]:

     The LOM Micro Wiki^[sic] is already well down the path to establishing itself as the world's most reliable and objective data source on the subject of micronations. Indigo's comments refer to another wiki, which contains largely fictional content, which also uses the name "MicroWiki".

   • 2021, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

     They extend to social media sites like Facebook, Reddit and MicroWiki, where communities share and discuss micronationalism, a practice they refer to as the social science of micropatriology.

Usage notes

• Scarcely-attested following the popularisation of MicroWiki (founded 27 May 2005) as the largest micronational encyclopaedia around 2009.

See also

• MicroPedia