For those who don’t know wiki talk, a wiki is an online pile of articles. The pile relies on the kindness of strangers and/or the wisdom of crowds. Anybody can stop by a wiki and write or edit the articles. There's usually some type of self-policing to make sure the site doesn't go way off the rails.
The ultimate wiki, of course, is the huge Wikipedia, now in 12,346 languages with 598,103,276 articles. (These are slight exaggerations.) Once upon a time I worked on the Wikipedia farm for Jimbo Wales. He’s the site's founder or co-founder, depending on who you believe. Then I got tired of chipping in to somebody else's site for no money.
The U.S. Game Shows wiki is hosted by Wikia. Jimbo started that outfit as a for-profit venture, unlike the proudly profitless Wikipedia. The game show wiki looks impressive enough, with long articles on just about any American game show you can think of, and some you can't think of at the moment. It's good for random trivia and quick answers for clueless game show bloggers like moi.
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