Forum:Can I create a Wiki about something I made up and is not public knowledge???

Can someone help me? I wrote a book and I want to create a Wiki for it but I don't want to publish my book. Help!!!!EnderowSpire 20:12, August 8, 2010 (UTC)EnderowSpire
 * You can create a wiki for whatever you want, the thing is you may not get help editing it if nobody else knows anything about it. --Pcj (T&bull;C) 20:15, August 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Is a wiki the best place for it? If you've written a novel and publish it using Wikia, anyone can edit it, and you also license it under the Creative Commons license. If you're writing a wiki about the book, and include different types of information, you might be ok, but if you just want to publish the work - i'd recommend perhaps thinking of puting it on a website more designed for that (for example http://www.fictionpress.com/) -- Random Time  20:56, August 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * (to expand on RandomTimes comments above) If you publish it on Wikia you are in-effect giving the copyright away, and ANY ONE can than edit it and make derivative works, so read-up on copyright and think carefully about it before you have released it on a Wiki or other web sites under a creative commons or similar 'public' license. A 'in print' publisher will probably not touch it then to create a 'real book' at a later date & pay royalties on it (Some may vanity publish it i.e You just Pay then to print it for you & you market it your self). An yes under CC by SA you should be attribute for the work by other people using it, but can you enforce it. Look at how many users on Wikia fail to attribute material sourced from other wikis, wikipedia or else were !! - BulldozerD11 00:38, August 9, 2010 (UTC)