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Wiki page or Wiki site ?
SharePoint Online is undergoing some changes, so I wouldnt consider this the end all be all. That said a standard Team Site in SharePoint (before the Modern Team Sites) is essentially a Wiki Site. They already come with the Wiki Home Page enabled. A project site template does not come with the Wiki site/pages configuration and locks you in to web part pages with defined zones, where as the wiki pages are more flexibile from a layout perspective (without code). You then just create new pages (wiki pages) in the same library as the Home Page for the site. You still have the ability to activate all the other site features, although I would not recommend activating Publishing as that changes how pages work in your site and you move away from wiki style pages. You could also add separate Wiki libraries in your site. For instance my team has a site that has a lot of documents and some other main pages and then we have a specific wiki library created for knowledge base purposes.
SharePoint Online is undergoing some changes, so I wouldnt consider this the end all be all. That said a standard Team Site in SharePoint (before the Modern Team Sites) is essentially a Wiki Site. They already come with the Wiki Home Page enabled. A project site template does not come with the Wiki site/pages configuration and locks you in to web part pages with defined zones, where as the wiki pages are more flexibile from a layout perspective (without code). You then just create new pages (wiki pages) in the same library as the Home Page for the site. You still have the ability to activate all the other site features, although I would not recommend activating Publishing as that changes how pages work in your site and you move away from wiki style pages. You could also add separate Wiki libraries in your site. For instance my team has a site that has a lot of documents and some other main pages and then we have a specific wiki library created for knowledge base purposes.
- The feature oriented nature of SharePoint makes possible to convert an existing team site into a Wiki one by simply activating required features in the site...so technically there is no a big difference between both since you can also create Wiki libraries in a team site and as Cory said, in both cases you have the same type of Wiki pages (the wiki library in the wiki site adds the rating capability for wiki pages...but you can also get this in a regular team site)
