WikiFur/Wikipedia version

''This is an archived copy of Wikipedia's article about WikiFur prior to the article's deletion. Please do not modify it (except to fix things that are now broken).'' --GreenReaper(talk) 00:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiFur is a wiki created by and for the furry community, founded in July 2005 to represent furry culture and history. Like Wookieepedia, Memory Alpha and other fan encyclopedias, WikiFur covers topics which rarely meet Wikipedia's verifiability standards.

WikiFur's userbase primarily consists of furry fans, and content focuses on points of interest for the fandom, including virtual communities, comics and other media relating to anthropomorphic animals. Regular events and furry conventions like Anthrocon and Further Confusion are also covered. Editors are permitted to contribute to articles about themselves as long as they comply with the neutral point of view policy. All text content is licensed under the GFDL, with news also available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

WikiFur was initially hosted by Wikia, and become one of their larger and more active wikis, being featured in December 2005. . The site moved to its own hosting in August 2009. It had over 11,000 articles as of September 2009, and is listed on the Ursa Major Awards Recommended Anthropomorphics List.

Three weeks after its foundation, WikiFur was selected as Something Awful's Awful Link of the Day. Massive vandalism ensued, but the boost in traffic allowed rapid growth. More orthodox attempts at promotion have included the distribution of flyers, ribbons and membership cards, and the use of Google AdWords. Active localization projects exist in Czech, German, French and Portugese.