There are many words I should explain:作者: Sonic Adolph
- * wiki is a concept, an idea of having a website that is freely editable by everyone and which keeps full records so that it can be rolled back to a previous state if necessary. There are thousands of separate wikis nowadays.
* MediaWiki is a particular type of wiki software, like KDE is for Linux. It is popular, mostly because Wikipedia uses it and helps to develop it, and so it is one of the best for dealing with problems caused by troublesome users.
* Wikipedia is a single group of websites that runs on MediaWiki software. It aims to be the best encyclopedia in the world.
* The Wikimedia Foundation runs Wikipedia, as well as other projects such as Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. It is headed by the Board of Wikimedia, which is led by the founder of Wikipedia. It is a non-profit organization - its objective is not to make money, but to make knowledge free to everyone.
* Wikia is a company that was made in the last few years by the same founder as Wikipedia. Its objective is to make money - or at least, to try doing things that could make money - using wiki technology. It is not the same as the Wikimedia Foundation, but some of the same people work for both.
* Wikicities is a collection of community-based wikis (no personal wikis) that are each around a particular topic. There are around 600 of them, though many are still small (list of the biggest - click each Website link to see the wiki). Wikicities is hosted and overseen by Wikia, which provides technical support, but the individual wikis are run by the community of contributors. Wikia only helps when needed. The wikis on it are free - the price you pay for hosting is having Google advertisements, as you can see on WikiFur.
I have led three wikis myself on Wikicities - two of them (the Creatures Wiki and WikiFur) are two of the largest of the wikis on Wikicities. The other one started last week and already has 140 pages. It is great fun . . . most of the time. :-D
And to me. Indeed, I would like to connect the whole world. In this past month I have talked with furs in Norway and China and Japan and Germany and Australia, as well as the UK and Canada and the USA. We can work together and help one another, even if we cannot easily meet one another. I would also be interested in learning about the things that Chinese furs do. :-)When we have a wiki, I think we can translate and write articles at the same time, as widen chinese fur's horizon is very important to me.
That would be an excellent use for it. I can see that it is good that we write about things that we all know in the English-speaking world, as they may be new concepts to people in other countries.For instance, chinese fur will find it convenient if we can translate the wikifur, as they can find useful things in the database.
This is one reason why I think it would be good to have it in one place, on one site. It makes it easier to go directly to the page that has the source information - all you would do is put [[en:Furry fandom]] and it links to it on the side of the page, like in Wikipedia.
However, if you would prefer to be on a different site and use normal links, then that would work too. Either way, you are free and welcome to use our text - indeed, it is guaranteed to be free for you by the license (the GFDL). The pictures would probably be OK as well for a translated article.
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