[WikiEN-l] Fiction and Wikia

Mon Nov 13 11:35:32 UTC 2006

/me is trying not to think about how Erik just promoted his own website

In any case, I thought a while back that if Wikia had all these wikis, then
all the unsourced highly specific details could be exiled to these wikis. It
sounded like a good idea.

On 11/13/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It occurs to me that many fictional worlds have superb wikis devoted
> > to them over in Wikia. These Wikis are often doing exactly what we're
> > trying to avoid doing in Wikipedia - providing large amounts of in-
> > universe information.
>
> True. Wikimedia is also strongly committed to free content, and so is
> Wikia. But so are other wikis which are not hosted on Wikia, such as
> Wikitravel. It would be unfair to prefer Wikia specifically. However,
> it would make sense, in my opinion, to build a network of free content
> websites. Fortunately there's already a definition we can use to
> identify those:
>
> http://freecontentdefinition.org/Definition
>
> Essentially, we could make a policy that any relevant external
> resource that meets the Free Content Definition may be linked in a
> more visible place than non-free resource. Going a bit beyond free
> licensing, we could also require that the site at least make complete
> dumps available on a regular basis, to enable community migration.
>
> --
> Peace & Love,
> Erik
>
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