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Welcome to the wiki of wikis, '''WikiIndex'''. This is an effort to create a complete directory of wiki websites out there on the internet, with a description of each wiki, and various systems of categorisation. We want to help people find the kind of wikis they are most interested, and to map out the internet-wide wiki landscape. | Welcome to the wiki of wikis, '''WikiIndex'''. This is an effort to create a complete directory of wiki websites out there on the internet, with a description of each wiki, and various systems of categorisation. We want to help people find the kind of wikis they are most interested in, and to map out the internet-wide wiki landscape. | ||
Since this site is also a "wiki", its pages are created and edited by people like you, so please join us and contribute to this effort, [[Add a Wiki]] or check out [[Community Portal]]! By the way, because we are still trying to get these entries further developed, please wait to broadcast to the internet that we are here. We will have a ''BIG PARTY'' to launch this! | Since this site is also a "wiki", its pages are created and edited by people like you, so please join us and contribute to this effort, [[Add a Wiki]] or check out [[Community Portal]]! By the way, because we are still trying to get these entries further developed, please wait to broadcast to the internet that we are here. We will have a ''BIG PARTY'' to launch this! | ||
== What WikiIndex is not == | |||
* '''WikiIndex is not an encylopedia''' - If you've seen [http://wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org] you'll recognise the MediaWiki software which this site uses. Wiki software allows you create pages and interlink topics very easily, but here we are only interested in creating pages of a particular type, we are not building a full encyclopedia. That's what [http://wikipedia.org/ wikipedia] is for (And it's very good at it. Check it out if you've done so already!) On this wiki every page is a page describing a wiki, with the exception of a few 'meta' pages like this one, which provide supporting information about the task of building WikiIndex. | |||
* '''WikiIndex is not a website directory''' - We are indexing (or making a directory of) wiki websites. Not just any website. It has to be a website powered by 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 [http://wikidweb.com wikidweb.com] . If a website listed here, does not appear to be powered by wiki software, you may have found a page which we should delete, however we do list [[:Category:ReadOnly| read only wikis]] where the wiki software may not be immediately aparent. | |||
* '''WikiIndex is not a business directory''' - Although we may have listings which appear to be about a particular company, that is only because this company has a wiki! We are listing wikis, not companies. You can create a listing for ''any'' company if you got [http://yellowikis.org yellowikis.org] | |||
* '''WikiIndex is not a link farm''' - We are creating this index for the benefit of real human visitors. It is not about search engine rankings. Any edits which are crammed full of keywords for 'search engine optimisation' purposes, should be adjusted for the benefit of human visitors of this site. Wiki Spam should be removed immediately! | |||
Revision as of 19:36, 29 January 2006
Welcome to the wiki of wikis, WikiIndex. This is an effort to create a complete directory of wiki websites out there on the internet, with a description of each wiki, and various systems of categorisation. We want to help people find the kind of wikis they are most interested in, and to map out the internet-wide wiki landscape.
Since this site is also a "wiki", its pages are created and edited by people like you, so please join us and contribute to this effort, Add a Wiki or check out Community Portal! By the way, because we are still trying to get these entries further developed, please wait to broadcast to the internet that we are here. We will have a BIG PARTY to launch this!
What WikiIndex is not
- WikiIndex is not an encylopedia - If you've seen Wikipedia.org you'll recognise the MediaWiki software which this site uses. Wiki software allows you create pages and interlink topics very easily, but here we are only interested in creating pages of a particular type, we are not building a full encyclopedia. That's what wikipedia is for (And it's very good at it. Check it out if you've done so already!) On this wiki every page is a page describing a wiki, with the exception of a few 'meta' pages like this one, which provide supporting information about the task of building WikiIndex.
- WikiIndex is not a website directory - We are indexing (or making a directory of) wiki websites. Not just any website. It has to be a website powered by 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.com . If a website listed here, does not appear to be powered by wiki software, you may have found a page which we should delete, however we do list read only wikis where the wiki software may not be immediately aparent.
- WikiIndex is not a business directory - Although we may have listings which appear to be about a particular company, that is only because this company has a wiki! We are listing wikis, not companies. You can create a listing for any company if you got yellowikis.org
- WikiIndex is not a link farm - We are creating this index for the benefit of real human visitors. It is not about search engine rankings. Any edits which are crammed full of keywords for 'search engine optimisation' purposes, should be adjusted for the benefit of human visitors of this site. Wiki Spam should be removed immediately!