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4 January: Wikicities now has 50 wikis!

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Terms of use expanded.

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Newest Wikicity: Esperanto.

Welcome to Wikicities, a collection of communities with websites that you can edit.

You can start a new Wikicity in any language today, or explore and edit an existing one from the list of Wikicities.

Creating communities
Wikicities offers you free wiki hosting to build a community-created website.

Every Wikicity runs on MediaWiki, the same software used on many wikis, including Wikipedia. Wikicities are hosted for free and will in future be supported by advertising.

Support on both the technical and social aspects of running a wiki community is provided.

A Wikicity can be in any language and many languages already have full interface translations available. You can choose to run multiple languages on one site, or request language sub-domains of one Wikicity.

All Wikicities come with a free mailing list.

Please see the terms of use before requesting a new Wikicity. You can also discuss your proposed wiki or contact us for further information.

Openly-editable free content wikis
All of the content of Wikicities will be available under a free content licence. This means the information can be reused, not only in other Wikicities, but by anyone.

Wikicities are open to the public to edit, although administrators can choose to restrict editing of some pages using page protection. Wikicities are not owned by their founders. They are run as community projects, and should strive towards consensus as the primary means for organizing their wikis.

What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website that allows users to easily create pages and edit pages others have created. The markup is very simple and requires no knowledge of HTML. For example, surrounding a word with double square brackets will turn that word or group of words into a link. You can make text italicized just by surrounding the text with double  inverted commas .

Editing is very easy to learn, and allows anyone to create a website. Every edit made to Wikicities is stored for as long as the Wikicity exists. This means you can easily check which edits have been made. You can also easily remove bad edits as you can change back to an older version of the page.

Technical details
Wikicities operate on a shared-login system. This means you only need to create a username once, and you can edit any Wikicity.

All Wikicities are hosted on dedicated Linux servers using squid cache acceleration for high performance. Hosting includes downloadable site backups, server administration, and site statistics. There is no limit to the size your Wikicity can be!

Example Wikicities

 * Local soccer league Wikicity : fans write about the teams, and analyze the games together.
 * OurTown Wikicities : residents and visitors of a town collect local history information, details of local facilities and popular places to go in the town.
 * Collectors clubs : are you an avid collector? Share details of your collection on a wiki, and collaborate with others in providing information about the objects you collect.
 * Fan sites : get together with other fans of a television program, band, or anything else and gather information about that, share news of celebrity appearances, and more.

Existing Wikicities
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