A WikiPage is simply the basic building block of a WikiWikiWeb that contains text and images. See WikiStructures and WikiWikiWeb for more information.
Wiki pages can have an edit template to predefine initial content, see Cookbook:Edit Templates
Wiki pages are stored in individual flat files, see Page File Format and Flat File Advantages.
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