Wikicities is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. It is a collection of wikis run by Wikia and targeted to different communities. It is similar in some aspects to free hosting sites such as the similarly named Geocities. It is free of charge for readers and editors, and gets its income only from advertisements.-1... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Angela Beesley Angela Beesley (born August 3, 1977 in Norwich, England) is a British Internet entrepreneur residing in Berlin, Germany. ... One way of finding a wiki on some subject you are interested in is to follow the Wiki Node Network from wiki to wiki (see Wikipedia:WikiNode). ... Wikia is an incorporated company which was founded by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, in 2004. ... Yahoo! GeoCities logo Yahoo! GeoCities is a free webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet. ...

Wikicities allows a broad range of requests to start a new community project, or a "Wikicity". With the exception of ideas which might compete with the Wikimedia Project, which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in, most broadly scoped projects are acceptable. Certain types of content are prohibited, including promotion of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. To gain approval for the creation of a Wikicity, would-be founders are asked to formulate a mission statement specifying the objectives of the project. Wikicities requires all content to be licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or multi-licensed under GFDL and another free content licence. GNU logo The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. ... Free content is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content upon which no legal restriction has been placed that significantly interferes with peoples freedom to use, understand, redistribute, improve, and share the content. ...

Wikicities runs on MediaWiki software on Linux servers. The project announced the creation of its one hundredth wiki on February 3, 2005. As of August 2005, it has around 500 wikis. Wikicities provides both technical and social support for all aspects of running a wiki community. Jump to: navigation, search MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of Wikicities

A list of all existing Wikicities can be found at Wikicities:List of Wikicities.

As of July 2005, the five most visited Wikicities are Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. Star Wars about the Star Wars movies and spin-offs
2. Mozilla, unofficial home to the Mozilla Community
3. Creatures, about Creatures, the artificial life computer game series
4. Doom, for fans of the Doom series of computer games
5. WikiMac, an Apple Macintosh knowledgebase

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External links

• Wikicities (main website)
• From Wikipedia's Creator, A New Site for Anyone, Anything - The Wall Street Journal article.
• Global Villages Convene in wiki town halls - the St Petersburg Times article.
• Wikicities page about Wikimedia.