Community Central:Creation policy

Please read this Wikicity creation policy before requesting a new Wikicity.

Please be aware of What Wikicities is not.

Wikis must have a large potential audience, and be likely to attract enough editors to maintain the wiki over a long period of time. Personal wikis, wikis for small groups, or individual schools are not generally permitted. See the university and schools policy. If your proposal is too narrow in scope, you will be advised to broaden it and add your idea as a sub-section of a larger Wikicity. Alternatively, you are welcome to start a mini-wiki within the Scratchpad Wiki Labs site.

Although some fair use material may be included in wikis, Wikicities aims to be a repository of free content, so any wiki which would be primarily made up of fair use material rather than GFDL material is not permitted. For example, wikis which aim to collect lyrics or other copyrighted works are not allowed. You may not request a Wikicity if you are banned on any other wiki.

Check that your idea is not already covered by an existing Wikicity. Check that your idea could not become part of an existing Wikimedia project. Check which other proposals were rejected for an idea of what not to request.

You must agree:
 * to the terms of use.
 * that the the content of the wiki will be licensed under the GFDL, a free content licence. This means the information can be reused, not only in other Wikicities, but by anyone.
 * that the wiki will be open to the public to edit (see protection).
 * that the wiki will be run as a community project. Wikicities are not owned by their founders. Users should strive towards consensus as the primary means for organizing their wikis.
 * not to allow prohibited content on the wiki.

After your request
All requests received are subject to rejection or alteration. It is likely the name or title for the wiki could be changed before or after the wiki is created.

If your wiki proposal is not successful, you may want to use the scratchpad wiki at scratchpad.wikicities.com as an alternative place for your content. Please note that over 40 percent of requests are rejected for not meeting this Wikicity creation policy.

Merging and closing of wikis
Wikis which have no content, or remain inactive, or have a large overlap with another Wikicity may be merged or closed. Wikis could be either merged with another, closed completely, or just locked to editing. In the case of complete closure of wikis that previously had content, the database of content would be made available for download. See closed Wikicities for further details.