Wikia
One of the giants of online applications is, as you must know, Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is "The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing."
It's a collaborative effort of thousands of minds writing, checking, rewriting, challenging, amending, and expanding information on millions of topics.
Wikipedia is based on Wiki technology. A wiki is "softwater that allows users to create, edit and link to web pages easily. Wiki are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. As you can see, the emphasis is always on community and collaboration.
Enter Wikia. "Wikia (oiginally Wikicities) is a selective free web hosting service for wikis (or wiki farm) operated by Wikia, Inc." (In other words, it's a for profit, even though wiki makers won't be doing the paying.)
As Wikia explains it, "Wikia is a community destination supporting the creation and development of wiki communities on any topic people are passionate about. We currently support over 4700 communities in more than 70 languages. Part of the free culture movement, Wikia is released under a free content license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Explore our existing communities or start a new one."
As a registered user, you can contribute to existing Wikis, start your own Wiki, or simply browse (which of course, anyone, registered or not, is free to do). Topics range from Spam to Ecology to Auto Dealers to Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? and far beyond. Anything and everything is fair game. I am amazed at the degree of passion and commitment people can exhibit to topics as mundane as Pencils, and as arcane as Finntheism. As might be expected, early entries revolve around Computers, SciFi, and popular culture.
To find out more, visit www.wikia.com.
Wikipedia is "The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing."
It's a collaborative effort of thousands of minds writing, checking, rewriting, challenging, amending, and expanding information on millions of topics.
Wikipedia is based on Wiki technology. A wiki is "softwater that allows users to create, edit and link to web pages easily. Wiki are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. As you can see, the emphasis is always on community and collaboration.
Enter Wikia. "Wikia (oiginally Wikicities) is a selective free web hosting service for wikis (or wiki farm) operated by Wikia, Inc." (In other words, it's a for profit, even though wiki makers won't be doing the paying.)
As Wikia explains it, "Wikia is a community destination supporting the creation and development of wiki communities on any topic people are passionate about. We currently support over 4700 communities in more than 70 languages. Part of the free culture movement, Wikia is released under a free content license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Explore our existing communities or start a new one."
As a registered user, you can contribute to existing Wikis, start your own Wiki, or simply browse (which of course, anyone, registered or not, is free to do). Topics range from Spam to Ecology to Auto Dealers to Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? and far beyond. Anything and everything is fair game. I am amazed at the degree of passion and commitment people can exhibit to topics as mundane as Pencils, and as arcane as Finntheism. As might be expected, early entries revolve around Computers, SciFi, and popular culture.
To find out more, visit www.wikia.com.
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