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	+ No. Our ["Community Guidelines"] prohibit wikis created for commercial gain. If you want to create a wiki using our software on your own webhost, though, you can download it at [wiki:sycamore Project Sycamore]. --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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	+ ------ + ''2009-11-20 17:23:54'' [[nbsp]] hi! can I make a commercial wiki? for business? obviously in a wiki way...interactive ;-) can I? --93.43.17.66

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- ''2009-11-18 19:19:10'' [[nbsp]] Can you create a Pony Club Wiki for a local pony club? --69.230.110.170	+ ''2009-11-18 19:19:10'' [[nbsp]] Can you create a Pony Club Wiki for a local pony club? Thanks!

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	+ ------ + ''2009-11-13 16:35:21'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki as a source and collaboration page for sustainable community design. We are a business but want to use the wiki not to promote ourselves, but to share our research. Our idea is to bring our collaborators to the wiki and have them share their research as well. Is this an acceptable site under the Community Guidelines? --209.117.99.26

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- Before we being introducing you to the voting requirements, I would like to ask some very simple questions. - Are you a citizen of the U.S.? - Are you a legal resident	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- <--	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] + * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 + Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. + Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? + The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. + For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl + Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :) + ------ + ''2009-10-29 09:53:40'' [[nbsp]] I am sorry to bother you. I am having a difficult time registering a new username with a previously disabled e-mail account. I cannot log on nor can I create an account using the e-mail address. What should I do? I am also wondering if username is my name or my e-mail address. Thank you for the help. --76.209.228.72 + + Try: fill out the log in form with anything. Then click "forgot password". Enter your email address. You should get a password reset email.

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ -->[http://451heat.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/republican-vs-democrat1.jpg] = '''Let This Be Your Choice, Not Just Their Fight''' = [http://451heat.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/republican-vs-democrat1.jpg]
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] - * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 - Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. - Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? - The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. - For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl - Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :) - ------ - ''2009-10-29 09:53:40'' [[nbsp]] I am sorry to bother you. I am having a difficult time registering a new username with a previously disabled e-mail account. I cannot log on nor can I create an account using the e-mail address. What should I do? I am also wondering if username is my name or my e-mail address. Thank you for the help. --76.209.228.72 - - Try: fill out the log in form with anything. Then click "forgot password". Enter your email address. You should get a password reset email.	+ <--

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- = '''Mantels Fireplace, Wood Mantel Shelf - Mantel Works, LLC''' =	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- '''Products:''' - -------------- - Mantel Works, LLC mantels comes in standard oak, maple, poplar and paintgade. Call for pricing and availability. Each order is custom made to your specifications! Your order will ship in less then 10 business days. After ordering you will get an order confirmation with shipping date. - Some of their products are:	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- '''Contact Details''' - -------------------- - Company Name: Mantel Works, LLC - Name - Barnaby Tomazevic (owner), - Company Email - [barnaby@mantelworks.biz] - Website -[http://www.mantelworksllc.com/] - Phone No - 920-419-0675 - Address - 210 N. Tower Dr., Black Creek, WI 54106 (Wisconsin)	+ [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]
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- '''Keywords:''' mantels fireplace, mantel shelf, fireplace mantel shelf, wood fireplace mantels, rustic fireplace mantels, wood mantel shelf	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] + * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 + Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. + Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? + The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. + For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl + Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)

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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ • Mantels + • Carlton Wood Surround + • Concord Wood Surround + • Gothic Wood Surround + • Hampton Wood Surround + • Harrisburg Wood Surround + • Heartland Wood Surround + • Keystone Wood Surround + • Oxford Wood Surround
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- [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]	+ '''Contact Details''' + -------------------- + Company Name: Mantel Works, LLC + Name - Barnaby Tomazevic (owner), + Company Email - [barnaby@mantelworks.biz] + Website -[http://www.mantelworksllc.com/] + Phone No - 920-419-0675 + Address - 210 N. Tower Dr., Black Creek, WI 54106 (Wisconsin)
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- Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] - * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 - Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. - Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? - The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. - For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl - Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)	+ '''Keywords:''' mantels fireplace, mantel shelf, fireplace mantel shelf, wood fireplace mantels, rustic fireplace mantels, wood mantel shelf

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- ==Title== - Football & Basketball Trophy, Medals & Awards At AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp - - ==Description== - Purchase trophy, award and medals from AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp. They provide different types of trophies, awards and medals for every competitive event. They provide free shipping on all orders over $100 including medals, trophies, plaques, pins, dog tags, mascots, business gifts, acrylics, resins and more! - - '''Company Overview''' - - Ad Trophy Manufacturing Corp has a selection of trophies, awards & medals that is large enough to offer anyone a great option. There are dozens of different designs to choose from. In addition to their collection of trophies, awards & medals, you'll also find a number of other great award and gift ideas. They have an assortment of sports-related bobble heads, in addition to snow globes, key chains, pins and even dog tags. They can even engrave your gifts, so you can have them personalized for that special someone. You can also shop their online store for trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons, gifts for coaches, and exciting corporate award collection.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- ==Contact Information== - :''' AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp.''' - : 248-44 Jericho Turnpike - : Bellerose, NY 11001 - : Phone: 516.352.6161 - : Fax: 516.352.8502 - : Business Email: andrew@adtrophy.com - : Website: http://www.adtrophy.com	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] + * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 + Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. + Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? + The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. + For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl + Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ ==Title== + Football & Basketball Trophy, Medals & Awards At AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp + + ==Description== + Purchase trophy, award and medals from AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp. They provide different types of trophies, awards and medals for every competitive event. They provide free shipping on all orders over $100 including medals, trophies, plaques, pins, dog tags, mascots, business gifts, acrylics, resins and more! + + '''Company Overview''' + + Ad Trophy Manufacturing Corp has a selection of trophies, awards & medals that is large enough to offer anyone a great option. There are dozens of different designs to choose from. In addition to their collection of trophies, awards & medals, you'll also find a number of other great award and gift ideas. They have an assortment of sports-related bobble heads, in addition to snow globes, key chains, pins and even dog tags. They can even engrave your gifts, so you can have them personalized for that special someone. You can also shop their online store for trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons, gifts for coaches, and exciting corporate award collection.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] - * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 - Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. - Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? - The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. - For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl - Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)	+ ==Contact Information== + :''' AD Trophy Manufacturing Corp.''' + : 248-44 Jericho Turnpike + : Bellerose, NY 11001 + : Phone: 516.352.6161 + : Fax: 516.352.8502 + : Business Email: andrew@adtrophy.com + : Website: http://www.adtrophy.com

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StaceyEllis — 2009-10-14 17:10:54

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- '''A Choice of Intellect'''	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- The sun was shining brightly, the city is crowding with different strangers, these people is on a hurry creating a line of busy bees, their direction is peculiar, it seems that they complementing each other’s move, pointing into one particular place with a large billboard with prints on it saying “were on a crazy sale, clothes 50 % discount” you look at your clock and there you remember that it is your payday. You are thinking to buy a new cloth for your use, considering the sale as such a good offer for you as a consumer, you pause for I while and think of your possible expenses, a beep suddenly caught your attention until you have realized how much you will save by purchasing your clothes in an online store which offers the latest fashion clothing trend in a [http://www.apparelus.com wholesale clothing] acquisition.
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- The given scenario is a common scene on department stores during payday; people are swarming into a small space just to take an advantage of what the store is currently offering, how sure are we that we are saving a small amount of penny from what we believe is sale?	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- There is no better way of purchasing clothes but by wholesale means, [http://www.apparelus.com wholesale clothing] is far better than those of in retail, quality is never put into risk, every piece ensures a quality craftsmanship. The wholesale industry has gained a good acclamation as a good clothing provider not only for online consumers.	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- As consumers let us make an intellect choice, let us put different factors into the our deepest consideration, let us consider quality including the material used, and let us weigh things, ask yourself “ Is my spending worthy of what I will be getting? “	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]
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- When choosing the clothes that we will be wearing, brand is not advisable, although we can have the assurance to have well-crafted apparel; there are those who have similar quality of works but offered in a cheap price in comparison to branded ones. As long as we are comfortable with what we are wearing, that’s the most important thing.	+ [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] + * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 + Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. + Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? + The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. + For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl + Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ '''A Choice of Intellect'''
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	+ The sun was shining brightly, the city is crowding with different strangers, these people is on a hurry creating a line of busy bees, their direction is peculiar, it seems that they complementing each other’s move, pointing into one particular place with a large billboard with prints on it saying “were on a crazy sale, clothes 50 % discount” you look at your clock and there you remember that it is your payday. You are thinking to buy a new cloth for your use, considering the sale as such a good offer for you as a consumer, you pause for I while and think of your possible expenses, a beep suddenly caught your attention until you have realized how much you will save by purchasing your clothes in an online store which offers the latest fashion clothing trend in a [http://www.apparelus.com wholesale clothing] acquisition.
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- \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|	+ The given scenario is a common scene on department stores during payday; people are swarming into a small space just to take an advantage of what the store is currently offering, how sure are we that we are saving a small amount of penny from what we believe is sale?
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ There is no better way of purchasing clothes but by wholesale means, [http://www.apparelus.com wholesale clothing] is far better than those of in retail, quality is never put into risk, every piece ensures a quality craftsmanship. The wholesale industry has gained a good acclamation as a good clothing provider not only for online consumers.
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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]	+ As consumers let us make an intellect choice, let us put different factors into the our deepest consideration, let us consider quality including the material used, and let us weigh things, ask yourself “ Is my spending worthy of what I will be getting? “
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- [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] - * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-10-11 15:02:35'' [[nbsp]] I would like to create a wiki dedicated to my homebrew fantasy role-playing game world using the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderrivs license. Is this an appropriate place to do that? --209.105.204.82 - Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - Specifically, my purpose was to create a reference for all the players and co-GMs involved in this "world" - it is already a collaborative project, with a small but clearly defined "community" as it is. It is my intent to define a user group with rights to modify the information. The choice of licensing was to prevent giant companies who shall remain nameless from taking and using what we have produced for profit. - Perhaps I misunderstand the freedoms and limitations granted in the CC licenses. Does my choice of license still apply if the work is attributed to the entire contributing group? Is this even possible under such a license? - The community doesn't have to be anyone who wants to create an account. It's perfectly fine if you want to restrict editing to a certain group and not let the entire world edit; a closed community is still a community. As for the license, CC-by-nc seems sufficient to me to prevent commercial exploitation. However, the licensing issue is really not what we're interested in. As long as you can abide by our ["Community guidelines"], we're not going to interfere in how your community is run. - For more information on wiki licensing, check out ["Choosing a License"] and [wiki:meatball:"WikiCopyright" Wiki Copyright]. Happy editing! --wl - Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up. :)	+ When choosing the clothes that we will be wearing, brand is not advisable, although we can have the assurance to have well-crafted apparel; there are those who have similar quality of works but offered in a cheap price in comparison to branded ones. As long as we are comfortable with what we are wearing, that’s the most important thing.

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	+ Your homebrew fantasy role-playing game world would be an acceptable topic for a wiki here. The only issue I see is that Wiki Spot requires that the wikis we host have an intended community. Wikis are really tools for collaboration and we want to promote collaboration. By using the CC-by-nc-nd license, you are making it legally impossible for anyone other than you to contribute to your wiki, which leaves your wiki with an intended community of one. A community of one is no community at all. If you were to use a CC-by-nc license and encouraged other people to contribute to your wiki, however, we'd be happy to host your wiki. If you have any additional questions or would like clarification of anything I've said, please don't hesitate to ask. --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- -Home - -new games - -reviews - -	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] + * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - ''2009-10-04 20:38:12'' [[nbsp]] ha wow bout one to help kid with website and computer technology --["Users/aheyman"] - * If it's a community, sure. If it's an educational tool, absolutely. If it's a single kid creating a personal website, it might be better elsewhere. But keep in mind that there are communities composed of families here: extended families planning weddings or family reunions. The size of the community isn't an issue. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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- ==Title== - Dog Training, Dog Obedience, Dog Trainer - - ==Description== - K9 training courses are available to dogs as young as four months old to 8 years of age and are offered in three convenient training styles: on field, in home or through boot camp dog training. K-9 Companions certainly has a trusted name in dog training. - - '''Company Overview''' - - Since 1979 K-9 Companions has provided exceptional professional dog training services for Southern California families with discriminating tastes for value and quality. George and Karen Duet are the Owners of K-9 Companions and also authors of 4 internationally recognized books on dog training. Their popular Boot Camp for Dogs has made a name for itself because of its unparalleled success with California canines.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- ==Contact Information== - :'''K-9 Companions''' - : 13703 JJ Lane - : Perris, CA 92570 - : Phone: (800) 870-5926 - : Fax: (951) 780-2128 - : Business Email: info@k-9companions.com - : Website: http://www.k-9companions.com/	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ ==Contact Information== + :'''K-9 Companions''' + : 13703 JJ Lane + : Perris, CA 92570 + : Phone: (800) 870-5926 + : Fax: (951) 780-2128 + : Business Email: info@k-9companions.com + : Website: http://www.k-9companions.com/

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- welcome to the wiki info on the world wide wrestling entertainment. - - WWWE - the wwwe is a pro wrestling compnay owned and maneged by stephans dalce. the wwwe was created in 1995 but seriously created in 2003. the wwwe has been know as a business company starting when it was born. many people didnt know the wwwe until it was created by stephans dalce. in the year of 2003 stephans dalce created the wwwe the reason why stephans create the wwwe is because he loved to wrestle he would wrestlie with his friends every day in school and on the weekends with his brother and friends thta live near him.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- stephans dalce - stephans dalce was born august 11 , 1995 , created the wwwe , he's an business man , owns wwwe , business incoprate , money incoprate , multi dude skate boarding , and more..........	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- life stories - stephans dalce know the business man . in the years of 1995 and to 2009 stephans mother and father were together , when stephans was five years old his mother and father seperated , stephans has two sister name manouchka and shaniya and a brother name donovald. when stephans parents had divorced he became upset but he wouldnt let that take away his dream to become a pro wwe wrestler. stephans started wrestling at the age of 3 years old , what got stephans into wrestling was the wwe , stephans would watch wwe wrestlinge every monday night and friday nighht , stephans would always wrestle in the house with his friends. stephans wrestled everyday of his life , stephans started wrestling in school with his friends. when stephans was 7 years old he was thinking to create a wrestling compnay when he becomes older, stephans told his friends that he was gonna create a wrestling company. when stephans was in the 4 grade he would always wrestle with his friends and he owuld get in trouble by the teachers, the teachers would say " stop wrestling its gonna hurt you" he would he dont care. through out the years in school stephans kept on wrestling and wrestling in the year of 2008 stephans was in the 8 grade one day stephans asked his ap assistant pricipal could he create a wrestling team the ap said he dont know " yet" stephans printed flyer for people to join , he wante dto create bake sale have fund rasiers but the school year was abou to end but he did fail his mission but as stephans grauted from middle school and moved on to high school stephans has join the wolves wrestling he now goes to enterprise , business nad technology in brooklyn ny .	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]
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	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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	+ Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.
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- The wwwe has announced today it has reached a milstone of 250 million people viewing wwwe webiste from mobile devices and computers. the wwwe has said if more people visit their webiste they would produce a amount of $450,000,000 . scince the wwwe website has been promoted the wwwe has been viewed off google and yahoo. also on twitter 56,000 people has viewed the wwwe twitter page. the wwwe is on twitter.com , blogspot.com and facebook.com	+ [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? ==
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	+ A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis.
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	+ The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications.
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- you can visit www.dalce.webs.com to view the wwwe	+ Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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	+ + + + + The wwwe has announced today it has reached a milstone of 250 million people viewing wwwe webiste from mobile devices and computers. the wwwe has said if more people visit their webiste they would produce a amount of $450,000,000 . scince the wwwe website has been promoted the wwwe has been viewed off google and yahoo. also on twitter 56,000 people has viewed the wwwe twitter page. the wwwe is on twitter.com , blogspot.com and facebook.com + + + + you can visit www.dalce.webs.com to view the wwwe

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worldwidewrestlingentertainment — 2009-09-28 15:48:41

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Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ life stories - stephans dalce know the business man . in the years of 1995 and to 2009 stephans mother and father were together , when stephans was five years old his mother and father seperated , stephans has two sister name manouchka and shaniya and a brother name donovald. when stephans parents had divorced he became upset but he wouldnt let that take away his dream to become a pro wwe wrestler. stephans started wrestling at the age of 3 years old , what got stephans into wrestling was the wwe , stephans would watch wwe wrestlinge every monday night and friday nighht , stephans would always wrestle in the house with his friends. stephans wrestled everyday of his life , stephans started wrestling in school with his friends. when stephans was 7 years old he was thinking to create a wrestling compnay when he becomes older, stephans told his friends that he was gonna create a wrestling company. when stephans was in the 4 grade he would always wrestle with his friends and he owuld get in trouble by the teachers, the teachers would say " stop wrestling its gonna hurt you" he would he dont care. through out the years in school stephans kept on wrestling and wrestling in the year of 2008 stephans was in the 8 grade one day stephans asked his ap assistant pricipal could he create a wrestling team the ap said he dont know " yet" stephans printed flyer for people to join , he wante dto create bake sale have fund rasiers but the school year was abou to end but he did fail his mission but as stephans grauted from middle school and moved on to high school stephans has join the wolves wrestling he now goes to enterprise , business nad technology in brooklyn ny .

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- ==Title== - Colon Surgery, Laparoscopic Colectomy, Colon Resection, Colon Surgery - - ==Description== - Laparoscopic colon surgery, also known as band-aid colon surgery, is a revolutionary colorectal surgical technique pioneered and perfected by Dr.David Blumberg, a Board Certified General and Colorectal Surgeon while in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. - - '''Company Overview:''' - - '''[http://www.bandaidcolonsurgery.com Band-aid colon surgery]''' is a revolutionary colorectal surgical technique pioneered and perfected by Dr. David Blumberg, a Board Certified General and Colorectal Surgeon while in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. - Most colon operations are performed either via a full length abdominal incision open colectomy or an incision half the length of the abdomen. They have shown that our approach assures successful treatment of patients' illnesses while minimizing the trauma of traditional surgery. Because of these beneficial quality-of-life effects, laparoscopic colectomy and colon surgery is becoming a new standard for most colon diseases including polyps, colon cancer, rectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohns disease, rectal prolapse and diverticulitis. - They look forward to partnering with you in the care of patients with colon and rectal diseases. Dr. Blumberg has the unique experience, expertise, technical instrumentation and track record of performing total laparoscopic colectomy.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- ==Contact Information== - :''' Bandaid Surgery, PC ''' - : The Coronado Medical Building - : 500 South Aiken Ave, Suites 107-110 - : Pittsburgh, PA 15232 - : Phone No.: (412) 682-3333 - : FAX: (412) 682-3335 - : Business Email: davidsurg@aol.com	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ ==Title== + Colon Surgery, Laparoscopic Colectomy, Colon Resection, Colon Surgery + + ==Description== + Laparoscopic colon surgery, also known as band-aid colon surgery, is a revolutionary colorectal surgical technique pioneered and perfected by Dr.David Blumberg, a Board Certified General and Colorectal Surgeon while in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. + + '''Company Overview:''' + + '''[http://www.bandaidcolonsurgery.com Band-aid colon surgery]''' is a revolutionary colorectal surgical technique pioneered and perfected by Dr. David Blumberg, a Board Certified General and Colorectal Surgeon while in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. + Most colon operations are performed either via a full length abdominal incision open colectomy or an incision half the length of the abdomen. They have shown that our approach assures successful treatment of patients' illnesses while minimizing the trauma of traditional surgery. Because of these beneficial quality-of-life effects, laparoscopic colectomy and colon surgery is becoming a new standard for most colon diseases including polyps, colon cancer, rectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohns disease, rectal prolapse and diverticulitis. + They look forward to partnering with you in the care of patients with colon and rectal diseases. Dr. Blumberg has the unique experience, expertise, technical instrumentation and track record of performing total laparoscopic colectomy.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ ==Contact Information== + :''' Bandaid Surgery, PC ''' + : The Coronado Medical Building + : 500 South Aiken Ave, Suites 107-110 + : Pittsburgh, PA 15232 + : Phone No.: (412) 682-3333 + : FAX: (412) 682-3335 + : Business Email: davidsurg@aol.com

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WilliamLewis — 2009-09-22 14:36:09

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- ='''Questa è una prova'''= - Quello che state leggendo è un test sul software Sycamore	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. + + + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- '''Cars Helping America – Working Online To Enhance The Concept Of Vehicle Charity''' - - Cars Helping America (CHA) is a vehicle donation centre authorized by the government that works on behalf of the approved charities to accept vehicle donations from interested donors. The company enjoys the status of being a bonded agent between vehicle donors and associated charities to popularize the concept of vehicle donation on internet. - - '''History''' - - Cars Helping America began its operation in 2004 in the Middleton town of Massachusetts. It was incorporated at New Hampshire the same year and attained the status of being a limited liability company. From the beginning, the company came up with online system of accepting and processing vehicle charities. - - '''Overview''' - - Cars Helping America is the online charity agent with a twofold goal of providing tax benefits to the vehicle donors and highest possible donation benefits to the charities. IRS rules govern the [http://www.carshelpingamerica.org/ car donation] benefits for the donor and the recipient charity. CHA follows the strict guidance of IRS and communicates the rules to the donors and charities before the process of donation begins. - - CHA has an online system to communicate with the car donors and the charitable organizations. The company accepts donations through online donation form. Having a huge network online, the company accepts vehicle donations from most of the states of the country, except Alaska, Hawaii and Michigan. - - '''Founding Members''' - - CHA belongs to two esteemed residents of Middleton, Marty Schloss and John Nicholls, who are also credited as the founding members of the company. Marty is an expert in business development and business consulting services. With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he works with non-profit organizations, advising them to obtain growth and development. John, with 20 years of experience in automobile wholesale, has a well-established bond with auctioneers, dealers and other individuals in the industry, - - '''How It Works?''' - - For Donors: CHA accepts donations in the form of cars, boats, trucks, vans, SUVs, RVs and motorcycles. The company asks the donors to fill online forms to donate a vehicle. Free pickup from the donor’s place and carrying out of necessary repairs are some of the services CHA offer to the donors. It also communicated the IRS tax rules for donation to the donors and assists them in preparing required documents for claiming tax deductions. - - For Charities: CHA supports charities that possess legal IRS status for receiving donations in different forms. The company sells the donated cars and donates a significant part of the earned money to the charities, after deducting the fixed costs like auction fees, towing and minor repairs. - - '''Supported Charities''' - - CHA works on the behalf of various well-known charities that support variety of noble causes in the United States. ‘A Better Chance’, ‘Red Cross’, ‘Helping Hands School’, ‘Liberty House’, ‘Pets Alive’ and ‘Sharing Foundation’ are some of the names in the list of hundreds of charities. Visit the official website for the complete list of charities that CHA supports. - - - - '''Address''' - - 15 Campbell Road - Middleton, MA 01949 - - '''Contact''' - - Phone: (866) 949-3668 - (978) 304-3024 - - Fax: (866) 240-2579 - - '''Email:''' info@carshelpingamerica.org - '''Website:''' www.carshelpingamerica.org	+ ='''Questa è una prova'''= + Quello che state leggendo è un test sul software Sycamore

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ '''Cars Helping America – Working Online To Enhance The Concept Of Vehicle Charity''' + + Cars Helping America (CHA) is a vehicle donation centre authorized by the government that works on behalf of the approved charities to accept vehicle donations from interested donors. The company enjoys the status of being a bonded agent between vehicle donors and associated charities to popularize the concept of vehicle donation on internet. + + '''History''' + + Cars Helping America began its operation in 2004 in the Middleton town of Massachusetts. It was incorporated at New Hampshire the same year and attained the status of being a limited liability company. From the beginning, the company came up with online system of accepting and processing vehicle charities. + + '''Overview''' + + Cars Helping America is the online charity agent with a twofold goal of providing tax benefits to the vehicle donors and highest possible donation benefits to the charities. IRS rules govern the [http://www.carshelpingamerica.org/ car donation] benefits for the donor and the recipient charity. CHA follows the strict guidance of IRS and communicates the rules to the donors and charities before the process of donation begins. + + CHA has an online system to communicate with the car donors and the charitable organizations. The company accepts donations through online donation form. Having a huge network online, the company accepts vehicle donations from most of the states of the country, except Alaska, Hawaii and Michigan. + + '''Founding Members''' + + CHA belongs to two esteemed residents of Middleton, Marty Schloss and John Nicholls, who are also credited as the founding members of the company. Marty is an expert in business development and business consulting services. With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he works with non-profit organizations, advising them to obtain growth and development. John, with 20 years of experience in automobile wholesale, has a well-established bond with auctioneers, dealers and other individuals in the industry, + + '''How It Works?''' + + For Donors: CHA accepts donations in the form of cars, boats, trucks, vans, SUVs, RVs and motorcycles. The company asks the donors to fill online forms to donate a vehicle. Free pickup from the donor’s place and carrying out of necessary repairs are some of the services CHA offer to the donors. It also communicated the IRS tax rules for donation to the donors and assists them in preparing required documents for claiming tax deductions. + + For Charities: CHA supports charities that possess legal IRS status for receiving donations in different forms. The company sells the donated cars and donates a significant part of the earned money to the charities, after deducting the fixed costs like auction fees, towing and minor repairs. + + '''Supported Charities''' + + CHA works on the behalf of various well-known charities that support variety of noble causes in the United States. ‘A Better Chance’, ‘Red Cross’, ‘Helping Hands School’, ‘Liberty House’, ‘Pets Alive’ and ‘Sharing Foundation’ are some of the names in the list of hundreds of charities. Visit the official website for the complete list of charities that CHA supports.
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- Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.	+ Fax: (866) 240-2579
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- [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ '''Email:''' info@carshelpingamerica.org + '''Website:''' www.carshelpingamerica.org

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- Hey guys I am trying out this wiki thing. I heard you are trying to plan a trip to Halloween Horror Nights, so I thought we could try to plan here and see if I could join you on this trip or others you are planning. I dont know how to use this really so if you don't then we are all in the same boat but lets give it a try. - Andrea	+ + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- - \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ Hey guys I am trying out this wiki thing. I heard you are trying to plan a trip to Halloween Horror Nights, so I thought we could try to plan here and see if I could join you on this trip or others you are planning. I dont know how to use this really so if you don't then we are all in the same boat but lets give it a try. + Andrea

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- The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications and could substantially help you in writing your [http://www.bestessays.com.au \| term papers], research, and other activities.	+ The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications.

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- '''Personal Injury Compensation-No Win No Fee'''	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- Hey friends! Have you or any of your acquaintances (GOD forbid) been in a car accident, motorcycle accident or in an accident in your work place? Or have you happened to be the poor pedestrian or cyclist knocked down by a vehicle? Or still further, have one of you been a passenger in a car accident? Take heart! Any of you who has suffered the misery and injury resulting from one or the other of the afore said situations has the legal right to claim for [http://www.accidentconsult.com/ Personal Injury] Compensation up to a period of 3 years from the date of the accident provided you are able to provide solid proof that the mishap was caused by not yours, but some one else’s negligence.
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- In other words, the onus of proving your eligibility for preferring a claim for personal injury compensation will be entirely with the accident victim whether it be a road traffic accident or a work place injury. In the case of traffic accidents, one must collect - all relevant details of the other erring vehicle and if the incident happened at the work place, it is imperative that the victim ensures that his employer has recorded the accident or mishap in the “Accident Book” and also informed the statutory authorities, failing which, you will not be able to make a successful personal injury claim.	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- It is regrettable that many of us are so ignorant about the procedures to be followed in the aftermath of a personal injury. Many have a misconception that pursuing claims is a complex and costly process. Please rest assured that this is not true.	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- In today’s world, the road traffic and other incidents which result in personal injury has become a Million Dollar Industry much on the same lines as the Funeral Services Sector which has been labeled “The Death Industry” Good Personal injury compensation claim attorneys are specialized in every branch such as minor injury, whiplash, head injury, loss of limbs, disability and a multitude of other claims.	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]
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- The best option therefore, is to get hold of a good attorney (by reputation and record) and entrust the whole matter into their hands. For this, at the outset you will have to fill in their on line claim form and after studying it, they will first tell you whether or not you are eligible to process a claim. If yes, then they will take up the whole issue on a [http://www.accidentconsult.com/ No Win No Fee] basis which means, you have literally no expenses at all during the entire procedure, from the time of making your claim until you get your 100% compensation. Their legal fees and costs are covered by the insurance company of the losing side.	+ [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]
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- At the same time, you need not worry about the pros and cons and all your genuine doubts will be cleared when your attorney visits you and discusses all aspects threadbare until you are satisfied that you are in good and efficient hands. You just sign your attorney’s claim form and then sit and relax.	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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alfreadgeorge — 2009-08-28 07:55:31

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ '''Personal Injury Compensation-No Win No Fee'''
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	+ Hey friends! Have you or any of your acquaintances (GOD forbid) been in a car accident, motorcycle accident or in an accident in your work place? Or have you happened to be the poor pedestrian or cyclist knocked down by a vehicle? Or still further, have one of you been a passenger in a car accident? Take heart! Any of you who has suffered the misery and injury resulting from one or the other of the afore said situations has the legal right to claim for [http://www.accidentconsult.com/ Personal Injury] Compensation up to a period of 3 years from the date of the accident provided you are able to provide solid proof that the mishap was caused by not yours, but some one else’s negligence.
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- \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|	+ In other words, the onus of proving your eligibility for preferring a claim for personal injury compensation will be entirely with the accident victim whether it be a road traffic accident or a work place injury. In the case of traffic accidents, one must collect + all relevant details of the other erring vehicle and if the incident happened at the work place, it is imperative that the victim ensures that his employer has recorded the accident or mishap in the “Accident Book” and also informed the statutory authorities, failing which, you will not be able to make a successful personal injury claim.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ It is regrettable that many of us are so ignorant about the procedures to be followed in the aftermath of a personal injury. Many have a misconception that pursuing claims is a complex and costly process. Please rest assured that this is not true.
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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]	+ In today’s world, the road traffic and other incidents which result in personal injury has become a Million Dollar Industry much on the same lines as the Funeral Services Sector which has been labeled “The Death Industry” Good Personal injury compensation claim attorneys are specialized in every branch such as minor injury, whiplash, head injury, loss of limbs, disability and a multitude of other claims.
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- [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]	+ The best option therefore, is to get hold of a good attorney (by reputation and record) and entrust the whole matter into their hands. For this, at the outset you will have to fill in their on line claim form and after studying it, they will first tell you whether or not you are eligible to process a claim. If yes, then they will take up the whole issue on a [http://www.accidentconsult.com/ No Win No Fee] basis which means, you have literally no expenses at all during the entire procedure, from the time of making your claim until you get your 100% compensation. Their legal fees and costs are covered by the insurance company of the losing side.
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- Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ At the same time, you need not worry about the pros and cons and all your genuine doubts will be cleared when your attorney visits you and discusses all aspects threadbare until you are satisfied that you are in good and efficient hands. You just sign your attorney’s claim form and then sit and relax.

Create a wiki

RyanMikulovsky — 2009-08-25 03:13:43

Revert to version 345 (someone is either confused or mean).

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- = Headline text = LilWill - --><-- Youtube Comedian/Musician Groups-Bloodz,Cripz,EastCoast Records,Brooklyn Record,Will Williams (LilWillPimp) on Twitter,YouTube - Broadcast Yourself,YouTube - LILWILL GETS A SPANKING,real mutha gs \| Gaia Online,http://www.youtube.com/user/LilWhttp://profile.myspace.com/480083863illPimp,	+ + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- - \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ = Headline text = LilWill + --><-- Youtube Comedian/Musician Groups-Bloodz,Cripz,EastCoast Records,Brooklyn Record,Will Williams (LilWillPimp) on Twitter,YouTube - Broadcast Yourself,YouTube - LILWILL GETS A SPANKING,real mutha gs \| Gaia Online,http://www.youtube.com/user/LilWhttp://profile.myspace.com/480083863illPimp,

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StaceyEllis — 2009-08-25 02:28:41

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- deleted	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. + + + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. - - - \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ deleted

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NickSchmalenberger — 2009-08-21 08:13:24

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- '''Article Alley- An Online Information Hub Of Free Articles'''	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- Articlealley serves as an online library of [http://www.articlealley.com/ free articles]. Officially termed as an article directory the website came into existence in 2004. All kinds of writers are free to submit their work to the article directory's database. This allows authors to reach out to their target audience totally free of cost. Articlealley has experienced exceptional growth since its inception and is currently counted amongst the top ranking online article directories.	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- With over 60,000 active contributing authors the website has an extensive database that covers a wide range of categories. The number of content pages for the site has crossed half a million. Thousands of Internet users have registered themselves as members of this website whereas many others search the directory's database for information on various subjects of their choice.	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- The website also serves as an excellent marketing platform for online businesses. Companies can reach out to their target audience by providing useful information, answers to problems and how to guides in the form of [http://www.articlealley.com/ submit articles]. When articles are syndicated to the website they are manually reviewed by a group of editors. If the article passes the quality check then it is published in the appropriate category.	+ [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]
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- What makes this website an excellent platform for marketing is that it allows every author to post their URL in an author bio box at the end of the article. Companies can use this place to give an introduction to their online venture while giving out a call to action to their readers and providing them with an easy way to reach their website where they can buy the products and services of their interest. It is this opportunity to gain a free one-way permanent link to your website which has made Articlealley and indispensable tool for Internet marketing.	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- Another reason why this article directory is preferred by webmasters and online businesses is because it has an extensive fan base of its own which considers the site to be a trusted source of valuable information. Hence contributing to their database guarantees that your content will be viewed with trust which will make it easy to gain the confidence of your target audience. Furthermore since it is researched by thousands of people on a daily basis it promises great potential to reach out to a large number of people.	+ Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.
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- '''Network and Partnership'''	+ [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? ==
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- Articlealley maintains its own network of partner sites. A large number of these sites have been set up by Article Alley where as many others are independent websites. Articles that are syndicated to the directory’s database can also be published on the partner sites depending on the particular niche with they cater to. Independent partner sites are free to collect article from the directory's database to add to their own totally free of cost. This further maximizes the marketing potential of Article Alley as all articles submitted to the website are free to be republished on various other sources on the Internet.	+ A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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FordWalston — 2009-08-21 08:10:21

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ '''Article Alley- An Online Information Hub Of Free Articles'''
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- \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|	+ Articlealley serves as an online library of [http://www.articlealley.com/ free articles]. Officially termed as an article directory the website came into existence in 2004. All kinds of writers are free to submit their work to the article directory's database. This allows authors to reach out to their target audience totally free of cost. Articlealley has experienced exceptional growth since its inception and is currently counted amongst the top ranking online article directories.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ With over 60,000 active contributing authors the website has an extensive database that covers a wide range of categories. The number of content pages for the site has crossed half a million. Thousands of Internet users have registered themselves as members of this website whereas many others search the directory's database for information on various subjects of their choice.
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- [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]]	+ The website also serves as an excellent marketing platform for online businesses. Companies can reach out to their target audience by providing useful information, answers to problems and how to guides in the form of [http://www.articlealley.com/ submit articles]. When articles are syndicated to the website they are manually reviewed by a group of editors. If the article passes the quality check then it is published in the appropriate category.
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- Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ What makes this website an excellent platform for marketing is that it allows every author to post their URL in an author bio box at the end of the article. Companies can use this place to give an introduction to their online venture while giving out a call to action to their readers and providing them with an easy way to reach their website where they can buy the products and services of their interest. It is this opportunity to gain a free one-way permanent link to your website which has made Articlealley and indispensable tool for Internet marketing.
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- Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.	+ Another reason why this article directory is preferred by webmasters and online businesses is because it has an extensive fan base of its own which considers the site to be a trusted source of valuable information. Hence contributing to their database guarantees that your content will be viewed with trust which will make it easy to gain the confidence of your target audience. Furthermore since it is researched by thousands of people on a daily basis it promises great potential to reach out to a large number of people.
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- A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ Articlealley maintains its own network of partner sites. A large number of these sites have been set up by Article Alley where as many others are independent websites. Articles that are syndicated to the directory’s database can also be published on the partner sites depending on the particular niche with they cater to. Independent partner sites are free to collect article from the directory's database to add to their own totally free of cost. This further maximizes the marketing potential of Article Alley as all articles submitted to the website are free to be republished on various other sources on the Internet.

Create a wiki

PhilipNeustrom — 2009-08-17 17:53:12

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- '''Five Parish Education Practitioner Survey'''	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- This is a wiki for the development of a survey for the Educational Technology department at McNeese State University. Please review what we have and feel free to comment and add more freely. I have never used this method before for the development of an instrument but I thought it might be useful so you can access it 24/7 when you have ideas.
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- To add to this document or change it please do the following: - 1. Read the current revisions - 2. Click on the Edit link near the bottom of the text. - 3. Please fill in the change comments area with whether the changes are mandatory, simply suggestions, or any other comments you wish to make.	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- - \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ This is a wiki for the development of a survey for the Educational Technology department at McNeese State University. Please review what we have and feel free to comment and add more freely. I have never used this method before for the development of an instrument but I thought it might be useful so you can access it 24/7 when you have ideas.

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- ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of nently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77	+ ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77
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- ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a	+ ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------
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	+ The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"]
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- * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly comm	+ * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------
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- That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliLewis"]	+ That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77	+ ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of nently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77
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- ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------	+ ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a
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- * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------	+ * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly comm
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- [Huvafen Fushi was exposed] [http://huvafenfushiresort.co.uk/]as a elite sumptuousness resort in summer 2004 after a complete rearrangement of the former atoll Nakatchafushi and offers his guests apart from multilingual staff still much more. Huvafen Fushi is a place where the depth of the water element can be experienced like never before. Huvafen Fushi has a total of 43 bungalows. You can do a bunch of things on this tinny isle.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- Pleasure waits for you in a Huvafen Fushi fashionable blend. Every Huvafen Fushi villa, whether on the seaside or over water, has its own freshwater throw pond. You would have to visit Huvafen Fushi to see how attractive it is. Set within its very own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi exudes a classy progressive vibe where the stunning location above and below the waterline is an desirability in itself. Scrupulously sourced from all corners of the earth by Huvafen Fushis Master of Wine. All Huvafen Fushi cabin, whether on the shore or over water, has its own freshwater dive pool. Set contained by its own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi is a naturalist's wonderland, where the landscape over and underneath the waterline is an draw in itself. Set inside its very own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi is a naturalist's wonderland where the striking location - over and under the waterline - is an pull in itself. Legendary, the peak summit in the Maldives is barely four meters over marine point, so maybe its not shocking that the Huvafen hot tub is sunken, something wholly elite to this resort. And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, you found Huvafen Fushi's sunken hot tub… In low season, from $880-$4,720; high time of year, from $1,320-6,600; the Shoreline Pavilion, $4100-$7500; Symphony cruiser, $3,300-4,200. Calm down in stylishness at the Huvafen Fushi Maldives yoga refuge. Just to wet your need to eat, here is a list of a a small amount of of the dive sites accessible from HuvafenFushi:Nakatcha Thila:Setting: 10 minutes north of Huvafen Fushi.
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- If star clientele are an pointer of a hotel's reputation, the Maldives super-lux Huvafen Fushi is about as hot as it gets.	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- For the last word in pampered luxury, take your pick of two Ocean Pavilions, set a full 200m out in the ocean and facing the sunset. The atoll has recently being developed to meet its exacting standards of lavishness and service with a multi-million dollar new build project. Huvafen Fushi is to be found 25 minutes (by a sumptuousness speed vessel) away from Male' International Airfield.	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- Huvafen Fushi is to be found 25 minutes (by a lavishness speed boat away from Male' International Airfield. Huvafen Fushi is devoted to delivering an feel further than each guest’s wildest dream while remaining dedicated to the sustainable and perceptive development of the land and natural resources of the isle, country and the Maldivian inhabitants. Huvafen Fushi is set within its very own private pond amongst mesmeric settings of transparent ocean.	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ [Huvafen Fushi was exposed] [http://huvafenfushiresort.co.uk/]as a elite sumptuousness resort in summer 2004 after a complete rearrangement of the former atoll Nakatchafushi and offers his guests apart from multilingual staff still much more. Huvafen Fushi is a place where the depth of the water element can be experienced like never before. Huvafen Fushi has a total of 43 bungalows. You can do a bunch of things on this tinny isle.
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	+ Pleasure waits for you in a Huvafen Fushi fashionable blend. Every Huvafen Fushi villa, whether on the seaside or over water, has its own freshwater throw pond. You would have to visit Huvafen Fushi to see how attractive it is. Set within its very own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi exudes a classy progressive vibe where the stunning location above and below the waterline is an desirability in itself. Scrupulously sourced from all corners of the earth by Huvafen Fushis Master of Wine. All Huvafen Fushi cabin, whether on the shore or over water, has its own freshwater dive pool. Set contained by its own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi is a naturalist's wonderland, where the landscape over and underneath the waterline is an draw in itself. Set inside its very own lagoon, Huvafen Fushi is a naturalist's wonderland where the striking location - over and under the waterline - is an pull in itself. Legendary, the peak summit in the Maldives is barely four meters over marine point, so maybe its not shocking that the Huvafen hot tub is sunken, something wholly elite to this resort. And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, you found Huvafen Fushi's sunken hot tub… In low season, from $880-$4,720; high time of year, from $1,320-6,600; the Shoreline Pavilion, $4100-$7500; Symphony cruiser, $3,300-4,200. Calm down in stylishness at the Huvafen Fushi Maldives yoga refuge. Just to wet your need to eat, here is a list of a a small amount of of the dive sites accessible from HuvafenFushi:Nakatcha Thila:Setting: 10 minutes north of Huvafen Fushi.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ For the last word in pampered luxury, take your pick of two Ocean Pavilions, set a full 200m out in the ocean and facing the sunset. The atoll has recently being developed to meet its exacting standards of lavishness and service with a multi-million dollar new build project. Huvafen Fushi is to be found 25 minutes (by a sumptuousness speed vessel) away from Male' International Airfield.
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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ Huvafen Fushi is to be found 25 minutes (by a lavishness speed boat away from Male' International Airfield. Huvafen Fushi is devoted to delivering an feel further than each guest’s wildest dream while remaining dedicated to the sustainable and perceptive development of the land and natural resources of the isle, country and the Maldivian inhabitants. Huvafen Fushi is set within its very own private pond amongst mesmeric settings of transparent ocean.

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- deleted	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. + + + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. - - - \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ deleted

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- Useful Credit Card Reviews - [Credit card reviews]will often tell you more than a credit card company will about the terms of their loans. Ask anyone who has ever received a credit card statement, or viewed a credit card provider’s webpage if they understood more that 50% of what was written. Sure the offers come in easy to understand words, but it’s the fine print that will get you in the end. - The most honest [credit card security] would be from disinterested parties, or those that will not suffer nor benefit from a credit card provider’s business. But, although these credit card reviews are honest, and well-meant, they can come from personal experiences, and may be biased. They can also be from a minor number of credit card holders or people who did not understand what they were signing up for. They will likely not touch on the aspects that are pertinent to you, either. - There are credit card reviews from parties that have a vested interest in giving out credit cards, and these must not be ignored completely either, because these kinds of review can give you the information on a credit card provider that you are looking for. It also doesn’t necessarily mean they would be lying to you. Some facts may be glossed over, so learn to read between the lines. - A good credit card review will be a write up that will not just overwhelm you with offers from credit card companies, or sob stories from people who feel that they have been taken advantage of. Here are a few things that you should look for in a credit card review: - 1) Interest rates- look for reviews that will state how much, a clear explanation of how they are computed, and from what date does you loan start earning interests. Also what kind of interest computation is applicable (compound or simple). - 2) Finance Charges- what are included in the term “finance charges”, what the rates are, and when do they become applicable. - 3) Billing Periods- a write up that will lay out to you if a provider has a “double billing period” (when the due date for the principal amount is different for the minimum payment date) is also very helpful. - 4) Late Payment Fees- again, the rates and applicability (when and how) - 5) Minimum Payment Due- also the rates, and perhaps some opinion on how to make this option work for you. The usual minimum is 1 or 2% of the principal debt plus finance charges. - 6) Offers such as cash back, rebates, and discounts- plus the terms and conditions on exactly how you will be able to avail of these offers (such as if you have to buy $200 worth of goods at a certain store in a specified time to get a $20 rebate, etc.) - The more you read about credit cards, no matter if they are conflicting, the better it would be for you. Getting a credit card may offer a convenience now, but it is something that can haunt you for the rest of your life.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki. + + + \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| + + ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- All about Web Hosting - - The Internet has definitely opened up an infinite number of possibilities, not only in terms of social interaction, but in the world of business as well. The one virtual structure that is ever present and is the most essential to the world wide web is the web site. Log on to the internet, and you will see it the moment the connection to the web is made. For the ordinary person, it’s something that’s just always been there, but for those with a bit more curiosity, they would be asking how did it get there? - Sowing the Seeds - The very first step in building a web site is to find a [web hosting] service provider, or a service that will give the individual or the organization its own unique address on the web. These web hosting sites will lease out a space on their server (that’s the ware that will be providing the service) where they can “park” their website with its own domain name. If you own the house, the domain name will be the assigned address (e.g. Andy’s House), and the website will be the actual house (the one that has the doors and the windows). - A web hosting service provider can sometimes offer a “domain name” registration alone, or a package that will include domain name registration along with your website hosting. Again to go back to the house analogy, the service can either register the address under a person’s name or register the address which has an actual lot that one can build the house (website) on. Most websites are “prefabricated” and uploaded on to the “lot” by the leaseholders without any modification from the leasers. - There are website owners and administrators that would rather have the domain name registered first and then find a webhost, to make sure that there will be no one else who will use the address that they want. - Size Matters - Depending on the [best blog hosting] outfit, the amount of leased virtual space (bytes) on the servers can be from a few gigabytes or “unlimited”, which in reality is a relative term. As large as the Internet world is, it’s not infinite, what “unlimited” can actually mean is “well-nigh impossible to reach the limits in the ordinary course of business.” - The price of the lease often also increases with the size of the leased space, which will in turn be dependent on the purpose of the site. Personal websites are small and often just one-page deals and are oft-times free, but business websites require more pages and can run to hundreds of dollars. - - Dot What? - Looking at website addresses you will see it end in .com, .org, .net, .biz or .com.uk, and .net.ph, etc. These “suffixes” will give the net surfer an idea on where the web hosting company is physically located in the real world (sometimes), probably because the owner or administrator of that particular site is also located in or around the same location, or they find it more convenient to have a service provider in that area. - [http://www.example.com]	+ Useful Credit Card Reviews + [Credit card reviews]will often tell you more than a credit card company will about the terms of their loans. Ask anyone who has ever received a credit card statement, or viewed a credit card provider’s webpage if they understood more that 50% of what was written. Sure the offers come in easy to understand words, but it’s the fine print that will get you in the end. + The most honest [credit card security] would be from disinterested parties, or those that will not suffer nor benefit from a credit card provider’s business. But, although these credit card reviews are honest, and well-meant, they can come from personal experiences, and may be biased. They can also be from a minor number of credit card holders or people who did not understand what they were signing up for. They will likely not touch on the aspects that are pertinent to you, either. + There are credit card reviews from parties that have a vested interest in giving out credit cards, and these must not be ignored completely either, because these kinds of review can give you the information on a credit card provider that you are looking for. It also doesn’t necessarily mean they would be lying to you. Some facts may be glossed over, so learn to read between the lines. + A good credit card review will be a write up that will not just overwhelm you with offers from credit card companies, or sob stories from people who feel that they have been taken advantage of. Here are a few things that you should look for in a credit card review: + 1) Interest rates- look for reviews that will state how much, a clear explanation of how they are computed, and from what date does you loan start earning interests. Also what kind of interest computation is applicable (compound or simple). + 2) Finance Charges- what are included in the term “finance charges”, what the rates are, and when do they become applicable. + 3) Billing Periods- a write up that will lay out to you if a provider has a “double billing period” (when the due date for the principal amount is different for the minimum payment date) is also very helpful. + 4) Late Payment Fees- again, the rates and applicability (when and how) + 5) Minimum Payment Due- also the rates, and perhaps some opinion on how to make this option work for you. The usual minimum is 1 or 2% of the principal debt plus finance charges. + 6) Offers such as cash back, rebates, and discounts- plus the terms and conditions on exactly how you will be able to avail of these offers (such as if you have to buy $200 worth of goods at a certain store in a specified time to get a $20 rebate, etc.) + The more you read about credit cards, no matter if they are conflicting, the better it would be for you. Getting a credit card may offer a convenience now, but it is something that can haunt you for the rest of your life.

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	+ The Internet has definitely opened up an infinite number of possibilities, not only in terms of social interaction, but in the world of business as well. The one virtual structure that is ever present and is the most essential to the world wide web is the web site. Log on to the internet, and you will see it the moment the connection to the web is made. For the ordinary person, it’s something that’s just always been there, but for those with a bit more curiosity, they would be asking how did it get there? + Sowing the Seeds + The very first step in building a web site is to find a <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com">web hosting</a> service provider, or a service that will give the individual or the organization its own unique address on the web. These web hosting sites will lease out a space on their server (that’s the ware that will be providing the service) where they can “park” their website with its own domain name. If you own the house, the domain name will be the assigned address (e.g. Andy’s House), and the website will be the actual house (the one that has the doors and the windows). + A web hosting service provider can sometimes offer a “domain name” registration alone, or a package that will include domain name registration along with your website hosting. Again to go back to the house analogy, the service can either register the address under a person’s name or register the address which has an actual lot that one can build the house (website) on. Most websites are “prefabricated” and uploaded on to the “lot” by the leaseholders without any modification from the leasers. + There are website owners and administrators that would rather have the domain name registered first and then find a webhost, to make sure that there will be no one else who will use the address that they want. + Size Matters + Depending on the <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/bestbloghosting.html">best blog hosting</a> outfit, the amount of leased virtual space (bytes) on the servers can be from a few gigabytes or “unlimited”, which in reality is a relative term. As large as the Internet world is, it’s not infinite, what “unlimited” can actually mean is “well-nigh impossible to reach the limits in the ordinary course of business.” + The price of the lease often also increases with the size of the leased space, which will in turn be dependent on the purpose of the site. Personal websites are small and often just one-page deals and are oft-times free, but business websites require more pages and can run to hundreds of dollars.
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- \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\| - - ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ Dot What? + Looking at website addresses you will see it end in .com, .org, .net, .biz or .com.uk, and .net.ph, etc. These “suffixes” will give the net surfer an idea on where the web hosting company is physically located in the real world (sometimes), probably because the owner or administrator of that particular site is also located in or around the same location, or they find it more convenient to have a service provider in that area.

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- ==Title== - Call Center - Healthcare, Insurance, Virtual , Financial Services , Medical, Business Process Outsourcing Services - ==Description== - ARO Inc. helps your organization with its business process outsourcing, back office outsourcing & call center services for medical healthcare, insurance & financial service industry in USA.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- ''' ARO ''' , Inc. provides leading-edge business process outsourcing (BPO) for companies. Eight years ago, our business model drastically changed to focus on a distributed workforce. This means we can save a lot of costs by using an at-home workforce. Since then, they have deployed this distributed workforce for an array of initiatives to serve various industries such as insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, and seminar/training. ARO's business model has always centered on using our remote workforce for the majority of this process. - ==Contact Information== - :''' ARO Outsourcing''' - : 3100 Broadway, Suite 100 - : Kansas City, MO 64111 - :Phone No.: 816-777-5000 - : Toll free 1-800-722-8827 - :Business Email: sales@callcenteroptions.com	+ \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|
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- '''Keyword''' - virtual call center - Call center healthcare - Call center insurance	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]

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- \|\|<tableclass="wikiSpotFrontOverview" tablewidth="100%" align="center">[#what What is a wiki?] \| [#good Good ideas for a wiki] \| [#bad Bad ideas for a wiki] \| [#after Next steps]\|\|	+ ''' ARO ''' , Inc. provides leading-edge business process outsourcing (BPO) for companies. Eight years ago, our business model drastically changed to focus on a distributed workforce. This means we can save a lot of costs by using an at-home workforce. Since then, they have deployed this distributed workforce for an array of initiatives to serve various industries such as insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, and seminar/training. ARO's business model has always centered on using our remote workforce for the majority of this process. + ==Contact Information== + :''' ARO Outsourcing''' + : 3100 Broadway, Suite 100 + : Kansas City, MO 64111 + :Phone No.: 816-777-5000 + : Toll free 1-800-722-8827 + :Business Email: sales@callcenteroptions.com
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ ==External Links== + * '''Alexa''': [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url= callcenteroptions.com CallCenterOptions.Com] + * [http://whois.domaintools.com/reviewitonline.net WHOIS for ReviewItOnline.net]
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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"]	+ '''Keyword''' + virtual call center + Call center healthcare + Call center insurance

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- ------ - - "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you - * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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- Title: - - Premier Accessible Van Rental – Transportation for Disable People - - Description: - - Premier Accessible Van Rental offers accessible vehicles for disable people on rent. Their featured vehicles have been adapted by the industry’s leading mobility equipment manufacturers. Their knowledgeable staff is also available to demonstrate the use of the adaptive features of the accessible vehicles to ensure safe and comfortable transportation. - - Company Overview: - - Premier Accessible Van Rental was founded in 2007 by two seasoned veterans of the Automobile Insurance Replacement Rental Industry, Ken Stocker and Ryan Eskridge. Long-time business associates, partners and friends, Ken and Ryan made a name for themselves in the 1990s with Premier Car Rental – one of the major competitors for the well-known Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Ken served in the capacities of Regional Finance Director and Regional Operations. Ryan served as Regional Sales & Marketing Director. Together, they successfully managed and were responsible for opening and/or training the teams in 3 of the 4 major regions of the United States.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- Premier Accessible Van Rental, LLC - Ryan Eskridge - 101 Metro Drive - Terrell, TX 75160 - Phone: 214-257-8386 - Email: mailto:reskridge@premiervanrental.com - Website: http://www.premiervanrental.com/	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] + + [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + + "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you + * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]] - - [[MakeWiki(http://, .wikispot.org)]] - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - - "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you - * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]	+ Premier Accessible Van Rental, LLC + Ryan Eskridge + 101 Metro Drive + Terrell, TX 75160 + Phone: 214-257-8386 + Email: mailto:reskridge@premiervanrental.com + Website: http://www.premiervanrental.com/

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WilliamLewis — 2009-06-26 10:55:00

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- Healthrajsoft is global[http://www.healthrajsoft.com "Healthcare IT business"] Company having offices at U.S.A, U.K. and India.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- [http://www.healthrajsoft.com "Healthcare Software Training"] has been probiding clinical solutions for large and small care facilities for over five years.
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- [http://www.healthrajsoft.com "Healthcare technology consulting"] provides Hospital software solutions for large and small care facilities with a foucus on medication management and patient referral.	+ ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- The objective of [http://www.healthrajsoft.com "healthcare training"] is to reduce the likehood of preventable medication error, thereby enhancing clinical outcomes for patients and client organisations.	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]
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- Many Technology and services vendors have yet to meet the needs and expectations. of healthcare providers and medical institutions. The vendors fail to address the entire contract lifecycle, and focus instead on specific problems at the departmental level.	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"].
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- Good health is the key to happy life. In a fast and demanding life, health unfortunately takes a backseat whereas it should be of prime concern, There are many questions that plague your mind , but answers to these are either insufficient or unavailable. Sometimes - one is too lazy or shy to discuss these with the doctor. - For a healthy life , numerous things have to be set in order.	+ Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.
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- watching the calories , good exercises and healthy food is absolutely essential . Besides these , we also with Healthcare IT consulting and development services to the healthcare client.	+ [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + + "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you + * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ Healthrajsoft is global[http://www.healthrajsoft.com "Healthcare IT business"] Company having offices at U.S.A, U.K. and India.
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- ''Wiki Spot is different'' -- we're a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We gladly provide a home to all projects that meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ [http://www.healthrajsoft.com "Healthcare technology consulting"] provides Hospital software solutions for large and small care facilities with a foucus on medication management and patient referral.
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- == Create a wiki: == - [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]	+ The objective of [http://www.healthrajsoft.com "healthcare training"] is to reduce the likehood of preventable medication error, thereby enhancing clinical outcomes for patients and client organisations.
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- Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"].	+ Many Technology and services vendors have yet to meet the needs and expectations. of healthcare providers and medical institutions. The vendors fail to address the entire contract lifecycle, and focus instead on specific problems at the departmental level.
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- Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page.	+ Good health is the key to happy life. In a fast and demanding life, health unfortunately takes a backseat whereas it should be of prime concern, There are many questions that plague your mind , but answers to these are either insufficient or unavailable. Sometimes + one is too lazy or shy to discuss these with the doctor. + For a healthy life , numerous things have to be set in order.
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- [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - - "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you - * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]	+ watching the calories , good exercises and healthy food is absolutely essential . Besides these , we also with Healthcare IT consulting and development services to the healthcare client.

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WilliamLewis — 2009-06-20 06:49:07

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- ==Title== - Employment background checks - Nanny Background Check For ChildCare - - ==Description== - Nanny Background checks are an important part of hiring a nanny. Making nanny hiring job easier for you Childcare Background Research Corporation provides nanny background checks, childcare background check and babysitter background checks services. - - '''Company Overview''' - - ChildCare Background Research Corporation is a full service company that focuses exclusively on conducting meticulous, in-depth nanny background checks. Their nanny background checks are especially designed for childcare candidates; any nanny background check that does not include all of the below searches could potentially put a child in jeopardy.	+ ## + ## + ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! + ## + ## + ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! + ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a + ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an + ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. + ## + ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. + ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.
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- :''' ChildCare Background Research Corporation''' - : 15530 East Broncos Parkway Suite 380 - : Centennial, CO 80112 - : Phone: 303-706-0005 - : Fax: 303- 858-8228 - : Business Email: info@childcarebackground.com - : Website: http://www.childcarebackground.com	+ == Create a wiki: == + [[Image(roundabout_wikispot.png, right, thumbnail, 120, noborder)]]
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- Background Check Nanny, Nanny Background Checks, Nanny Background Check, ChildCare Background Checks, Childcare Background Check, Child Care Background Check, Employment Background Check	+ Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. + + [[Anchor(what)]] + == What is a wiki? == + + A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + [[Anchor(good)]] + == Good ideas for a wiki == + + The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. + + Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. + + === City Wiki === + + How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. + + === Common-interest wiki === + + A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. + + [[Anchor(bad)]] + == Bad ideas for a wiki == + + The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: + + * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. + * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? + * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' + + Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. + + [[Anchor(after)]] + == Next steps == + Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." + + As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: + + * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki + * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home + * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki + * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help + * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. + + If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! + + [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] + + ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] + ------ + ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? + + [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang + ------ + ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 + + No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + ------ + ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 + + It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. + ------ + ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? + + Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] + + Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] + Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? + Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. + ------ + ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] + * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] + + What's the old name and the new name? + + The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O + * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] + + Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron + + All set! + ------ + ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 + * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 + * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + ------ + ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 + That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] + ------ + + "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you + * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] + * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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- ## - ## - ## Whoa! WAIT A SECOND... READ THIS FIRST!!! - ## - ## - ## If you just want to create a Wiki Entry (that is, a single page about something), don't edit this! - ## This is for creating a new Wiki... in other words, a whole set of a bunch of entries about a - ## subject. For instance, a town might have a single wiki. If you want to create an entry on an - ## already existing wiki, go to that wiki and edit there. - ## - ## Do a search for your new page title if you really, really want to create an entry here on the Wiki Spot Hub. - ## Just hit back on your browser, and scroll down if you actually want to create a wiki.	+ ==Title== + Employment background checks - Nanny Background Check For ChildCare + + ==Description== + Nanny Background checks are an important part of hiring a nanny. Making nanny hiring job easier for you Childcare Background Research Corporation provides nanny background checks, childcare background check and babysitter background checks services. + + '''Company Overview''' + + ChildCare Background Research Corporation is a full service company that focuses exclusively on conducting meticulous, in-depth nanny background checks. Their nanny background checks are especially designed for childcare candidates; any nanny background check that does not include all of the below searches could potentially put a child in jeopardy.
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- Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - Wiki Spot will send an e-mail to the account that you are logged on with. That email will have a simple link in it that will let you create a wiki. You'll find lots of further instructions and links to help pages on your new wiki's front page. - - [[Anchor(what)]] - == What is a wiki? == - - A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute. Wiki Spot is a nonprofit, member-supported effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - [[Anchor(good)]] - == Good ideas for a wiki == - - The most famous example of a wiki is [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia], an encyclopedia written entirely by its users. Of course, creating another encyclopedia of everything would be counterproductive; however, there are plenty of other applications for wikis! Think of the wiki as a versatile medium than can be used for many applications. - - Rather than creating a wiki for the sake of wikis, you should be creating a wiki to fulfill a need that you already have. The best potential wikis are those that have a community of people who would contribute. - - === City Wiki === - - How about a wiki about your town -- wouldn't it be great to have a comprehensive guide to everything to do and see in your town? A wiki can be more accurate and up-to-date than other resources because anyone at any time can improve it. City wikis can be a great resource for the people in the city where you live. A shining example of this is the [wiki:davis Davis Wiki], a wiki made by the residents of Davis, California about their town. Whereas a Wikipedia page about [wiki:wikipedia:"Dog" dogs] would have information about the diet, health, reproduction and history of man's best friend, the [wiki:davis:"dogs" Davis Wiki page on dogs] has valuable information about owning a dog in Davis such as where the dog parks are, a list of groomers, veterinarians and other service providers in the area, as well as a list of apartment complexes that allow dogs. - - === Common-interest wiki === - - A wiki can bring together any community, even one where community members don't live in the same geographic area. Suppose you play the ukulele. While wikipedia has a [wiki:wikipedia:"ukulele" generic page] on ukuleles, mostly about the history of the ukulele. An ukulele wiki could put ukulele players from across the world in contact with each other, allowing them to share advice, upload audio samples, show photos of instruments, discuss current trends in ukuleleing, share their favorite artists, and meet up with other ukulele enthusiasts in the area. Perhaps you can think of a person/place/thing/event a group of people can contribute their knowdege about. Together, everyone's knowledge becomes more than the sum of its parts. - - [[Anchor(bad)]] - == Bad ideas for a wiki == - - The goal of a wiki is to create a collaborative resource for a community, therefore a wiki that has too narrow of a focus is a bad idea. While wikispot is free of charge, creating a wiki uses CPU and hard drive space, which do cost money. Creating useless wikis taxes useful ones. Here are some topics that '''do not''' fit the criteria: - - * Yourself -- unless you're Paris Hilton, no one will visit or edit this wiki. If you are Paris Hilton, perhaps you might want to consider ["Donate" donating]. - * Some dude you knew in college - what was his name, anyway? - * My dog -- awww he's sooo cute! Maybe it would be better to create a wiki for ''a group of dogs!'' - - Wiki Spot is a non-profit, public-benefit organization, and we require that your wiki meet our ["Community Guidelines"]. - - [[Anchor(after)]] - == Next steps == - Start creating pages! Have Fun! To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page." - - As you develop your site further, look at some of our other help pages: - - * ["Wiki Creator Guide"] -- some basics to read over after you've first created a wiki - * ["Customizing wikis"] -- make your community feel at home - * ["Help for Wiki Administrators"] -- how to's for being an admin on a wiki - * ["Help with Editing"] -- general editing help - * ["Building Community"] -- building a successful wiki takes time and effort. Building community will likely be your most important challenge after building up a certain amount of seed content. - - If you like what we do around here, consider ["Donate" donating] to help keep Wiki Spot running and awesome! - - [[Comments(Ideas, Questions and Suggestions!)]] - - ''2007-10-20 03:47:36'' [[nbsp]] How about a "family wiki"? I'm thinking of "running one up a flag pole" with my extended family and seeing if "anyone salutes"! Hey! If it catches on we may have thousands of "family wikis" linking us together all the way back to Noah! May need some "family wiki" guidelines though. eg "No fair criticizing deceased family members--they can't defend themselves!" --["Users/RichLindvall"] - ------ - ''2007-10-27 17:10:42'' [[nbsp]] Is anybody thinking of mixing some features of social networking sites with the nonprofit wiki idea? I know tons of people would want to join a non-commercialized social network. The family thing could be worked in I bet, too. I live in Davis and I'm trying to get a project like this going! People tell me the compliance (lawyer-related) costs would be too much to do it non-profit -- does anybody know if that's reasonable to believe? - - [http://cslang.blogspot.com/2007/10/since-success-of-non-profit-web-sites.html Here are some thoughts] on how it would work. --Charles Lang - ------ - ''2007-12-27 08:42:17'' [[nbsp]] Ok I feel really stupid, but I didn't know what to use as my username when i tried to set up my profile. The instructions aren't really that specific and I'm not that familiar with what other people were using. I thought that when I permanently disabled the profile that it would just be deleted and I'd be able to set up another username with the same email address, but that's not the case. Is there any way to make this happen? Or can I only set up a wiki profile at this point by creating another email account? --69.89.111.77 - - No need to feel stupid -- you've actually hit a good question. You can't have two accounts with the same email address and you can't log into a disabled account, so you've hit a wall here! If you send me an email containing the email address of your old account I will "clear" it out so it can be used with a new account. My email address is on my page. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - ------ - ''2008-03-05 14:36:59'' [[nbsp]] Hi sorry to bug you, in the new user registration form, what the field Name is supposed to be? Is it username to login, or my wikispot name displayed in the header/window title? Thanks --202.69.98.152 - - It's your username to login. We use "name" rather than "username" because most communities would like to emphasize usage of real names rather than handles. - ------ - ''2008-03-19 15:59:45'' [[nbsp]] Hello! I would like to create a private wiki for my library system. Our public library would like to use the wiki as a resource for our government-funded organization, though we would like to maintain some privacy since we will be posting some information about staff members here. Does this fit within the community guidelines? Am I able to host a private wiki here? - - Thank you! --["Users/nmikysa"] - - Yes, that seems great! --["Users/PhilipNeustrom"] - Does this mean that you can host a private wiki? Can you password protect a wiki here? - Yes you can, provided it fits our usual ["Community Guidelines"]. See ["Help for Wiki Administrators"]. - ------ - ''2008-07-26 18:35:49'' [[nbsp]] Hello! This site looks great. I want to start a wiki on a particular family of board games written from a SPOV (sympathetic point of view). It would be a multi-lingual wiki with as many languages as wanted (starting with about 5-10). Often there would be articles in several languages about the same topic. The articles should be based on "truth", but allow original research. Sometimes a critical article may be written, e.g. about a game (if it is not very well balanced or if it has other known draw backs) and - and that's the touchy matter - about a person (e.g. a game inventor, a researcher) if (a) s/he is a public person; (b) the negative statements can easily be proved on the web (and are proved by providing links) (c) the negative stuff is directly related to board games. This could include disruptive behavior on the web (if a person is notorious for it) or the my-games-are-better-than-everything-else-attitude. These critical articles would be no more than 1-2% of all the articles and are generally discouraged unless they are about something rather well-known. I also would like to allow a wide variety of licenses: public domain, CC, GNU ... Please comment. --["Users/MrMancala"] - * Just go ahead and create it. Any rules regarding content are up to you (as long as it follows the ["Community Guidelines"], i.e., isn't purely commercial or illegal where the server is located). If you want advice, that's another thing, but you should feel free to make your own decisions. It's up to your own choice how to grow your wiki's community of editors. If it serves a community, set it up however you want. We're not sticklers (and indeed don't really care) how you handle things like point of view or copyright or openness or any of that -- we're here to support your community, not dictate how it should do things. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-02-03 17:21:45'' [[nbsp]] I would like to rename our wiki. Our community organization has taken on a new name. Is this possible? I would prefer not to create a new one, and leave the old name dangling in cyberspace. Thanks. Larry O --["Users/LawrenceOheron"] - - What's the old name and the new name? - - The group is 99% decided on a new name. I am inferring from your question that I can not myself make the change. Pls confirm if my inference is correct and that I must let you know when we are ready. Thanks, Larry O - * Well, there are two things going on here. You can change the website's name banner on your {{{Wiki Settings/General}}} and {{{Wiki Settings/Images}}}. However, if you want to change the wiki short name (''name.''wikispot.org), then you have to ask Philip to change things. We'd just need to know what your current short name is, and the new one you want. --["Users/BrentLaabs"] - - Philip, pls make the following changes to our current short name (http://auna-rochesterny.wikispot.org/) to the new name (http://notana-rochesterny.wikispot.org). Thank you. Larry O'Heron - - All set! - ------ - ''2009-03-12 12:10:10'' [[nbsp]] Is it a good idea to use a wiki to create groups for my college intranet?Extremely urgent --203.129.195.140 - * There are plenty of research groups and classes that use Wiki Spot, and a couple of inter-college conferences. Basically, if you are a community of people trying to connect and work together, we're here for you. Welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-04-17 01:14:59'' [[nbsp]] I have created a Wiki for the Southern Nevada branch of Organizing for America in which we wish to set up a community-based outlet in which we can share information about our contacts, our events, and resources. The commercial site I am now on classifies us as a business when we are a community group. You look interesting. Do you consider us a business or a community group? None of us are paid to do what we do. --72.193.228.232 - * Paid or not doesn't matter. Are you planning on using the site to make personal profit? If not, don't worry about it. In general, if you're a group of people coming together for a common goal (or you are trying to create a location for a group of people to come together), you're fine. It sounds from the little you've described like you're just the kind of group we're here to support. If you have any questions, just ask; we're a friendly community here on Wiki Spot. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - ------ - ''2009-05-09 08:02:24'' [[nbsp]] Would it be okay to create a wiki to use to write a novel collaboratively with a set group of people? --128.120.178.22 - That sounds like an interesting project. It sounds like such a project is consistent with our ["Community Guidelines"], so go ahead and create your wiki and get started! --["Users/WilliamLewis"] - ------ - - "2009-06-09" [[nbsp]] Hi, i am a professional [http://www.essaywriters.net freelance writer] and i am interested in creating a Wiki for all people who are interested in writing for sharing some experience, ideas and developing [http://www.essaywriters.net/signup.php freelance writing opportunities]. Thank you - * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards] - * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]	+ Background Check Nanny, Nanny Background Checks, Nanny Background Check, ChildCare Background Checks, Childcare Background Check, Child Care Background Check, Employment Background Check

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	+ * Okay, now it is starting to look like you're just trying to create linkspam. If you're a spammer, that's just blatantly rude to steal the hard work of volunteers and donations from people trying to support communities to make a profit. Keep in mind that Wiki Spot is for non-commercial community efforts. --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]

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	+ * Sounds like a neat idea for a wiki. I know some fiction writers who use a wiki to support each other. Good luck, and welcome to Wiki Spot! --["Users/JabberWokky" Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards]