Wikia:Our reasons for using Wikia
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- See Why use Wikia? for the main page, or add your reason here.
- The best community support available anywhere on the planet.
- There is no better place for promoting your vision or what you're passionate about than through a wiki. Wikia is all about helping passionate communities grow.
- Growing a wiki into a passionate community is an exciting and sometimes challenging affair. If you have questions, we have good answers.
- Wikia is always working to make managing wikis, whether large or small, as easy as possible. We listen to our community and are always working on new tools to help you.
- Wikia has a lot of diverse communities. This means we can promote your vision to other people in our community as a better way to get kick-started, if that's what you want to do.
- Our culture grew out of Wikipedia, we know what's important and we know how not to meddle. We know that our job is to help you.
- Wikia exclusively uses the highly scalable, highly internationalized, free/open source, MediaWiki software, which has a multitude of benefits over other wiki engines. Extensions such as hieroglyphics are available to Wikia on request. Extensions such as timelines are installed on all Wikia. See Wikia with extensions.
- Become part of a large wiki community, with full support for the social and technical aspects of running a wiki.
- Spam blacklist and protection of pages against severe vandalism.
- Support for communication within your community via talk pages, mailing lists, an IRC channel, and community pages within the Central Wikia.
- Freely licensed content ensures it will remain free.
- Database download available so your data can never be locked into the site.
- Completely open site. No annoying hidden pages or login required.
- If you choose to log in, only one account is needed to edit any wiki since a single login operates across all wikis.
- RSS feeds for recent changes and new pages.
- File upload feature allows to upload graphics or sound files.
- Customizable site style and navigation, including accesskeys and tooltips.
- Personal watchlist to keep track of pages in which you are interested.
- Editing toolbar to insert common formatting markup.
- Wikia is run by Wikia, Inc., which mostly passes the open company test.
- Full text search.
- Automatic lists of new pages, old pages, more visited pages, pages with spelling errors, images, users, admins and many more special pages.
- Many user preferences.
- Categories and tagging.
- Detailed statistics are available on the number of users, articles, visits, page requests and more, for each Wikia.
- Complete version history. Every edit is stored, so can revert bad edits or check old revisions.
If you think Wikia offers something else that ought to be in this list, please add it.
