It probably contributes to it. It’s pretty easy to assume a site is identical or similar to Wikipedia when they look almost identical. (Nitpick: Wikimedia is the foundation that owns Wikipedia and its related sites. The wiki software that they develop and run is called MediaWiki.)
TvTropes probably doesn’t suffer from this problem too much because 1) it doesn’t have “wiki” in its name; 2) it doesn’t run MediaWiki or look like it; and 3) the home page has a paragraph that starts “We are not Wikipedia. We’re a buttload more informal. . . .”
It probably contributes to it. It’s pretty easy to assume a site is identical or similar to Wikipedia when they look almost identical. (Nitpick: Wikimedia is the foundation that owns Wikipedia and its related sites. The wiki software that they develop and run is called MediaWiki.)
TvTropes probably doesn’t suffer from this problem too much because 1) it doesn’t have “wiki” in its name; 2) it doesn’t run MediaWiki or look like it; and 3) the home page has a paragraph that starts “We are not Wikipedia. We’re a buttload more informal. . . .”