Category:Read-only: Difference between revisions

'''Category: Read-only''' — the [[wiki]] sites listed in this '''read-only''' {{tag|Wiki Edit Mode|edit-mode}} [[Special:Categories|category]] here on WikiIndex can not be [[edit]]ed by anyone; except the wiki sites' {{Cambridge-Dictionary|system-operator|system operators}} ([[Sysop|SysOps]]).  These wiki sites deny [[user]]s the one thing that makes wikis special.  Despite the '[[:Category:Wiki|wiki]]' format and [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki software]], they effectively function like a conventional [[:Category:Website|website]], where users are only able to read someone else's opinion.  Users can not change anything that they feel is wrong or factually incorrect, or add anything that they know or feel can improve the site; however, some {{Cambridge-Dictionary|read-only}} wiki sites ''may'' be facilitate direct contact to the SysOps via e-mail offering suggestions or alterations to content on existing articles.

Many [[:Category:Wiki people|people]], including [[:Category:Active contributors to this wiki|folks]] here at [[WikiIndex]] think these wiki sites listed in this [[category]] are not true to the {{Cambridge-Dictionary|fundamental}} spirit or {{Cambridge-Dictionary|ethos}} of wikis! In fact, [[SwitchWiki]] (the predecessor to WikiIndex) only listed [[:Category:OpenEdit|open-edit]] wiki sites.  However, there may be very valid reasons why a wiki is set to read-only; one such scenario may be a wiki which was created as an editable wiki for a forthcoming [[:Category:Conference|conference]] or similar event, and then '[[:Category:Locked|locked]]' to read-only following the conclusion of said conference.  Other reasons for read-only wiki sites could be when the original scope or [[:Category:Wiki Topic|subject matter]] has shifted away, the [[owner]] of the wiki has [[:Category:Goal abandoned|abandoned]] due to personal reasons, or the wiki just wants to be preserved as an [[:Category:Archives|archive]], maybe as a result of moving to different [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki software]].