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Community Portal
What is this portal used for?
  • If you have any comments, questions, or anything you want to bring up, you've come to the right place!
  • If you have ideas for Orain, you've come to the right place!
  • If you want to discuss a specific action done on your local wiki, please consult that wiki's discussion board.
  • If you want to discuss a steward action, please consult that steward directly or go to the Stewards' noticeboard.
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Wiki Rules

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to Orain! I want to start a thread outlining Wiki Rules.

Obviously, there's going to be some guidelines that each wiki will need to follow, such as:

  • Absolutely no attack wiki's will be tolerated. This includes wiki's created to disparge, attack, humiliate, harass, or otherwise cause harm to an individual, corporation, organization, etc.
  • With that being said, it's obvious that we will not censor wiki's. Personal opinions are allowed, and as such, you're free to have whatever content you wish to have - within reason. Obviously, threats made against others, attacks, etc. won't go unnoticed.
  • Dormancy. At what time will a wiki be considered dormant? How should that be handled? Should there be a timeline? What if someone else wants to revive the wiki? What process should be followed?

This is only a start, but let's start! :) Dusti*poke* 22:20, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Terms

I've written drafts for the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. What does everyone think? Kudu (talk) 14:59, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

I approve. Dusti*Let's talk!* 07:13, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Ditto John (talk) 15:04, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions

I don't see too many wiki farms survive longterm without sustainable finances. That usually means ads or deep pockets. Otherwise, the regular staff person or persons burns out over the years. Longevity of my wiki is far more important to me than ads on my wiki. That is because moving a wiki can be a lot of work, and one loses hits when links go bad due to moving.

I really don't think most people with wikis mind ads as long as they don't have to see them when logged in. A wiki farm can be non-profit or semi-profit, and use ads. See wikipedia:WP:Advertisments.

I would like to be able to provide my email address in my preferences so that I can get a password update email when I lose my password. And more importantly, so that I can get notified of changes to my watched pages. I don't regularly check watchlists on wikis I edit on infrequently. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Ads are horrible to me. That's why I left ShoutWiki, and never create an account on Wikia. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 04:47, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm currently the individual that's funding Orain. I can assure you that we're not going to be going offline anytime soon. As of right now, I don't believe we'll be using ads. We'll be running off of my funds as well as any donations that we may receive. Kudu, do you mind enabling the last request Timeshifter made? I believe that's a reasonable request. Dusti*Let's talk!* 07:12, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Email is now  enabled. Kudu (talk) 14:51, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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