New site type: Community Sites - feedback welcomed!
Hi, I'd like to share a concept of a new category of Wikidot sites and I would be happy to hear your opinion about it. It is called Community Sites and is specially targeted towards sites which:...
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It is an intriguing idea. The aspects of this idea that stand out to me the most are: The lack of a Master Admin Decentralised control of the wiki is a good idea for a community. In theory it's a good...
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Leiger, thanks for the feedback. The lack of a Master Admin Indeed, this might be good or bad. We have seen both. Interestingly enough, we can see many sites started by one admin who at some point...
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Ah, yes, the whole 'Anyone can be a member' would be the sticking point for our site. Gotta keep out the trolls and below average writers, see?
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In return we would like to be able to run ads on selected popular Community Sites but, as stated above, we would like to re-invest in the sites in a number of ways. This is the "nope" point for me....
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Thanks. Indeed, you are right. "Open" membership should not be enforced. But the site needs to be publicly accessible, i.e. not "private".
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I would gladly talk to people who run individual sites and discuss if we could run ads in any form or not. I agree that some types of sites (including SCP) require a much more delicate approach....
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I was wondering some days about this new "type" of wiki.. I always thought some community wikis are existing in exact this manner. but some issues are really good: the problem of the missing MA is...
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Another thing is that we are planning to add bandwidth and likely usage limits to Free, Pro Lite, Pro and Pro Plus accounts. Although the limits are far above what an average site generates, some...
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I upgraded to a PRO account so that I have control over the adds that are being displayed and if they are displayed at all. For this reason, I will probably not switch my wiki to a Community Site...
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Thanks for all the comments! It helped us a bit shaping Community Sites. We will announce Community Sites in the next few days.
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North: I think this is a great idea as long as you don't impose certain things like wikia did (I get angry only at the thought of it). Could you give an example of some of these restrictions that were...
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