QUOTE(WikiWatch @ Wed 6th October 2010, 9:44am)
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QUOTE(Emperor @ Thu 7th October 2010, 2:54am)
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If you need a place to put your fancruft, there really aren't too many great alternatives
1) Band together with a bunch of other anonymous or not so anonymous freaks and start something which will probably fail and have lots of infighting
2) Go it alone
3) Find a free wiki farm with a proven record of years of responsible hosting of similar material
4 Try to integrate with a large general-purpose wiki like Encyc
5) Suck it up and leave your stuff on Wikia, where at least it's relatively safe
6) Give up on the wiki idea and get a free blog or MySpace account.
7) Give up the internet entirely and enjoy your free time with no ulcers.
Present company? Hah.
Why the hell does it have to be a wiki at all? Why fight with all that crap software?
If you're creating a specialized knowledgebase with a small group of users contributing,
why not just use have them post to a public (free) blog? Create a Blogger blog, pass out
the password to your users, and let them use it as a data dump. You can export the
results as an XML file and diddle with it later.
Everything2 is a good system, but you still have to contend with hosting issues. Unless you're in
it to make $$$$, the easiest and dumbest free host would be the best. Wikia doesn't qualify under
any such requirement--you have no control over it, there are ads you don't profit from, and you get
charming little "seekrit rules" that you must abide by, because Jimbo Shall Not Be Criticized.
We could take bets on how long it will be before someone puts up an anti-Wikimedia wiki.
(No, ED and Wikipedia Review don't count. I mean a wiki that does nothing but criticize Wikimedia.)