User talk:200.78.17.200

Yo GreenReaper ¡
Hello, I'm Alek Fuchs, furmaster of FurryLatino.org, thanks for you comments in the front page of the FurryPedia.

responding to your question:

Yes, I Want to Know More. X3

Cya ¡¡¡

(Sorry, my english sucks.)


 * OK. Here is how it is. I am saying this in English because I do not want a translation program to make my words mean something else. :-)


 * Wikicities provides hosting for community-based wikis, including WikiFur. They manage the servers, the MediaWiki software, the networking, and are also there to offer advice if you need it. It is like a free web hosting company. You and your community manage your wiki - you have control over the layout, and of course the content.


 * There are various requirements - these are the most important:


 * The wiki would be licensed under the GFDL
 * The wiki would be run by the community, not by you personally
 * It would have adverts at the side, like WikiFur does, to help pay for the server. The ads might change, but they will never be popup ads.


 * It should be possible to keep your old name as the "name of the wiki", so you would still be "FurryPedia", not "WikiFur Español" - unless, of course, you wanted to be! The DNS name of the site would probably be es.furry.wikicities.com. Similarly you could change it to look how you liked through the MediaWiki CSS system; you would not have to stick to our style, use our logos or rules, or be under our administrators.


 * It is important to emphasise that it would still be your community's wiki - the promotion and success of it would be up to you and the Spanish-speaking furry fans you recruited. I would of course be pleased to mention in our news that you had joined us, and could help if you have wiki-related questions, but I couldn't guarantee any significant personal involvement - I have my own wiki to run! Besides, I have no knowledge of Spanish so would be useless. ;-)


 * The main benefit apart from the hosting would be the ease of linking to and from WikiFur articles. You could just put a tag like this: Fursuit - and it would make a link to the WikiFur page, in an "other languages" box. You can see this on most Wikipedia pages, or at WikiMac, another wikicity. You would be very welcome to take our pages and just translate them, even if you decide not to actually join us at Wikicities.


 * I will say I have been very happy with Wikicities, and have always found the people in charge easy to work with (they are mostly the same people who run Wikipedia), but I understand that it is not for everyone. I recommend you read more about Wikicities and see for yourself why you might (or might not) want to join us. -- 18:38, 22 Oct 2005 (UTC)