Community Central:About

Wikicities are wiki communities creating free content with the MediaWiki software. These are hosted for free by Wikia, the company which runs the project. Anyone is free to start a new Wikicity in accordance with the Wikicity creation policy and terms of use.

Wikicities was founded by Angela Beesley and Jimmy Wales in October 2004. It celebrated its first birthday on November 2, 2005.

News about the site can be found at news and press releases. See also the reasons to use Wikicities, what Wikicities is not, and then explore or browse the site.

Advertising
Wikicities is an advertisement-supported service. See advertising for details on the advertising policies, and for details of how you can advertise here.

Copyrights
The text of all Wikicities sites is freely licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Reusers of the content must retain it under the same licence, ensuring it remains free. Angela + Erik Moller 4-ever! Please read the text of the GNU Free Documentation License for full details of this affair. See also Designated agent.

Database download
The MySQL database of every Wikicity is available for download under the terms of the GFDL.

Statistics
See the Statistics page for details.


 * The Special:Statistics page on every Wikicity provides basic data on the number of pages on each wiki.
 * Wikistats has details on the number of edits, pages, users, site visits, and more, for every active Wikicity (ideally updated weekly, but some delays occur).
 * Alexa has details on the traffic rank of Wikicities compared to other sites (toolbars for IE and Mozilla browsers).
 * There are daily Webalizer stats for every wiki at http:// .wikicities.com/webalizer/ (Due to technical difficulties, Webalizer is no longer maintained).

Existing Wikicities
See list of Wikicities for a full list of wikis, including rejected and pending requests.

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