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The [[:Category:Wiki People|people]] of '''[[WikiIndex]]''' are creating a complete [[:Category:Directory|directory]] of all wiki websites on the [[:Category:Internet|internet]]; current and former.  We describe each wiki using several systems of [[Special:Categories|categorisation]].  We want to help people find the kind of [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]] they are most interested in, and to map out the internet-wide wiki landscape, or [[wikisphere]].

*'''[[{{SITENAME}}]]''' was [[Founder|founded]] in '''[[:Category:FoundedIn2006|2006]]''' by [[John Stanton]], [[MarkDilley|Mark Dilley]], and [[Raymond King]].

*'''WikiIndex is not an encyclopaedia''' — if you've seen [https://www.Wikipedia.org Wikipedia.org] (or one of its many related sites), you'll recognise the [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software that this WikiIndex wiki site uses.  [[:Category:Wiki Engine|Wiki software]] allows you to create pages, and interlink topics very easily, but here we are interested only in creating pages of a particular type; we are not building an [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopaedia]].  That is what [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] is for!  On this WikiIndex wiki, every regular page (i.e. every article page in the main [[WikiIndex:Namespace conventions|namespace]]) is a page describing either another [[:Category:All|wiki]], or a [[:Category:Wiki People|wiki person]], or a [[:Category:WikiIdea|wiki idea]].  We have pages dealing with wiki related topics like [[:Category:Wiki Engine|wiki engines]] (ie, wiki software) and [[:Category:WikiFarm|wiki farms]] as well.  Generally, administrative 'meta' pages like this one, which provide supporting information about the task of building WikiIndex, are in [https://WikiIndex.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&namespace=4 the 'project' namespace], so people wanting to browse by using the '[[Special:Random|random page]]' feature will find wikis or people, not instructions or discussions.  (This is not a decision that has full consensus, some folks think that instructions and discussion are worthy topics for 'random page').

*'''WikiIndex is not a website directory''' — we are indexing (or making a [[:Category:Directory|directory]] of) only wiki websites.  Not just any website.  It has to be a website powered by [[:Category:Wiki Engine|wiki software]].  Although we may be interested in other websites, e.g.; websites with articles about wikis, these do not appear as listings in this index (with their own page, added to categories etc).  If you want to list your website on a wiki, check out [[Wikidweb]] or [[AboutUs]].  If a website listed here does not appear to be powered by wiki software, you may have found a page that we should [[WikiIndex:Deleting pages|delete]]; however, we do list [[:Category:ReadOnly|read-only wikis]] where the wiki software may not be immediately apparent.

*'''WikiIndex is not a business directory''' — although we may have listings that appear to be about a particular [[:Category:Company|company]], that is only because that company has a wiki!  We are listing wikis, not companies.  You can create a listing for ''any'' company if you go to [[Yellowikis]].

*'''WikiIndex is not a link farm''' — we are creating this index for the benefit of real [[:Category:Humans|human]] visitors.  It is not about search engine rankings.  Any edits that are crammed full of keywords for '[[:Category:Search engine optimisation|search engine optimisation]]' (SEO) purposes should be adjusted for the benefit of human visitors of this site.  Wiki-[[spam]] should be [[WikiIndex:Deleting pages|removed]] immediately!

See: [[WikiIndex: FrequentlyAskedQuestions]].