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. If you 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.

Check your idea is not already covered by an existing Wikicity. Check 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.

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 temporarily.

Closure of wikis
Wikis which remain inactive for long periods of time are subject to being closed. The requester of the wiki would be informed of this, and the community, if any ever existed, would be given the option of moving the content to another Wikicity, or downloading the database of content. Wikis could be either closed completely, or just locked to editing. This has not happened to any Wikicities so far.