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Although it doesn't apply in this case, do you think the common use of WikiMedia (which defaults to the same dignified blue and gray look that Wikipedia has) contributes to the problem?
Do people expect TvTropes to be like Wikipedia?
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. . . ."