Bureaucrats, checkuser, interwiki, staff, Administrators
9,132
edits
Founder: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
User ---> Person / People
Rock-O-Jello (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
MarkDilley (talk | contribs) (User ---> Person / People) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
The '''founder''' of a [[wiki]] site is the [[user]] (or {{tag|Wiki People| | The '''founder''' of a [[wiki]] site is the [[user|person]] (or {{tag|Wiki People|people}}) who originally started it. Founders are distinct from [[leader]]s, although sometimes the two are the same person(s). In the case of [[Ward's Wiki]] (the original [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]]), [[Ward Cunningham]] is both the founder and one of the leaders of creating content. In [[:Category:FoundedIn2000|2000]], [[SunirShah]] [[forking|forked]] some of the content to create [[MeatBallWiki]] which had few real leaders. Another example of a founder/leader is [[ClericofMadness]], who created the [[Creepypasta Wiki]]. [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] was co-founded by [[Larry Sanger]] and [[Jimmy Wales]] in [[:Category:FoundedIn2001|2001]], but neither is very active today – Sanger left shortly after creating Wikipedia, and subsequently founded [[Citizendium]] in [[:Category:FoundedIn2006|2006]]; and Wales has mostly focused on outreach efforts, and subsequently co-founded [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] with [[Angela Beesley Starling|Angela Beesley]]. | ||
Here on WikiIndex, we can highlight the founder of a wiki by adding the <tt>|founder =</tt> field (and their name!) in the [[Template:Wiki|wiki infobox]]; or, alternatively, we can provide more detail (outside of the infobox), including the date of foundation by using [[template:Founded by]]. | Here on WikiIndex, we can highlight the founder of a wiki by adding the <tt>|founder =</tt> field (and their name!) in the [[Template:Wiki|wiki infobox]]; or, alternatively, we can provide more detail (outside of the infobox), including the date of foundation by using [[template:Founded by]]. | ||