WikiIndex:About: Difference between revisions

*'''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:Wiki idea|wiki idea]].  We have pages dealing with wiki related topics like [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki engines]] (ie, wiki software) and [[:Category:Wiki farm|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 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]].