Template:Wiki.yt
Wiki.yt was a wiki farm created by Guaka. There are two main goals:
- Develop real social wikis
- Make money through advertising, hosting and consulting
These goals can be in conflict, in which case, goal #1 prevails.
- Real social wikis
We want to provide a space that is currently not well covered. Wikimedia Foundation is too big and too bureaucratic, and Wikia is way too commercial and annoying for small wikis.
- Community before profit;
- Only ads on wikis where it's not inappropriate, (e.g. no AdSense on Veganwiki since it leads to ads for non-vegan products);
- 'Sensible' wikis are hosted for free.
- Money
We make money through
- Professional MediaWiki consulting, including Pywikibot coding, system administration, development of extensions and MediaWiki spam removal;
- Quality MediaWiki hosting;
- Advertising where this does not have adverse affect on the community.
- News
- 2013-12-24 - launched Deletionpedia.org v2
- 2013-09-12 - Nomadwiki, took over Cheap Travel Wiki
- 2013-05-09 - started Cheap Travel Wiki
- 2013-05-07 - 1. interfamily links, 2. Wiki.yt Google discussion group, 3. recent changes dashboard
- 2013-04-28 - set up Velowiki with shared user and interwiki database, later we'll merge some of the user tables of other wikis
- We're already running several successful wikis
Hitchwiki is not on this server but is definitely a friendly wiki. Mirror.Hitchwiki.org will be on this server.
And then there are some less successful ones, possibly to be revived.
- New
- Possible new ones
- Busk.wiki.yt
- permaculture.wiki.yt
- volunteer.wiki.yt
- amsterdam.wiki.yt
- bxl.wiki.yt
- berlin.wiki.yt
- healthy.wiki.yt, actually, this would be reviving one that died a while back
More todo
- People
Wiki.yt was not just built by Guaka (talk). Some other people were essential to its growth and success: Sigurdas, Simison, MrTweek, Robino and way many more other people.
- Why .yt?
Most wiki.* domains were taken, what do You Think? Well, and it was cheap.