Guide to writing wiki requests/es

On Miraheze, unlike other wiki farms such as Fandom, users cannot create their own wikis; instead, wikis must be requested and approved by a wiki creator. This page will outline what is and isn't acceptable in a wiki request, and how you can write good wiki requests.



Antes de escribir la solicitud
Antes de hacer la solicitud, asegúrate de que no hay ninguna wiki con un propósito similar o idéntico. Si existe, contribuye a esa wiki en vez de solicitar crear una wiki nueva. Si la wiki esta cerrada, puedes solicitar que sea re-abierta.



Anatomía de una solicitud
Puedes solicitar una wiki aquí. En esa pagina, veras el siguiente formulario:
 * Subdominio (subdominio.miraheze.org): Un campo de texto donde debes poner el subdominio de la wiki.
 * Nombre de la wiki: Un campo de texto donde debes indicar el nombre de la wiki
 * Idioma: Un menú en el que debes seleccionar el idioma de la wiki.
 * Categoría: Un meno donde debes seleccionar la categoria de la wiki. Asegúrate de seleccionar la categoría que mejor describe la wiki. Puedes seleccionar de estas categorías:


 * Wiki privada (solo puede ser leída por los usuarios con el grupo de miembro u administrador): Selecciona esto para hacer accesible esta wiki solo a ti y aquellos a los que desees dar acceso.
 * ¿Sera el/uno de los tema(s) principal(es) de tu wiki gente actualmente viva? Si seleccionas esta opción, aceptas que el tema principal de tu wiki es gente.
 * El tema de esta wiki es... Esta es una lista en la que puedes seleccionar el tema de la wiki para que sea mas fácil de encontrar en WikiDiscover. Puedes seleccionar los siguientes temas:

If your wiki doesn't fit well with any of these, select "None of the above". If you select this, a wiki creator may assign one closest to the scope you present, or you may have a harder time getting the request approved.
 * Reason: This is the most important input. In this one, you describe your wiki's purpose, topic, and scope. Make sure you put in sufficient detail, as described in "What a wiki request should contain" below. 2 to 3 sentences should usually be enough. If wiki creators believe that your wiki may violate the Content Policy, they may decline the request even if you have described a sufficent purpose, topic, and scope.

== Writing a wiki request ==

Now that you've reviewed what the request form looks like, you should know what goes in a wiki request.

Que debería contener una solicitud
Las solicitudes deberían contener lo siguiente:
 * Un tema claro (por ejemplo: "Esta wiki esta dedicada a satirizar varios temas de actualidad.")
 * El tipo de contenido que la wiki va a contener (por ejemplo: "Tendrá una descripción humorística de cada tema.")
 * Su ámbito (por ejemplo: "Cualquier tema que no sea poco conocido tendrá una pagina en la wiki.")
 * Un subdominio relacionado con el tema de la wiki (¡recuerda poner el subdominio en el campo de texto dedicado para subdominios!) (por ejemplo: "satira.miraheze.org") Nota: El subdominio tiene que estar relacionado con el tema, evita que sea demasiado corto/genérico, y no debería superponerse con un dominio ya existente.

Que no deberían incluir las solicitudes
Never put any of this in your wiki request:
 * Content unrelated to the wiki you are requesting, known as filler (ex. "Me and my friends played Minecraft.")
 * A generic subdomain (ex. "wiki7.miraheze.org")
 * Spam (or trolling) requests (ex. "uthfazrsfhfjfit7dt")
 * Any content that violates the Content Policy (ex. "I would like a wiki to advertise my business.")
 * Wikis that are setup solely for harassment (ex. "This wiki will expose horrible people and/or users.") will be declined quickly.

== What to put in "reason" and why do I have to indicate this? ==

A simple question. We would like to know what you use your wiki for. After all, our servers are not exactly cheap and wikis that are hardly or not at all used only consume resources unnecessarily (storage space, memory, etc.). Furthermore, we need to ensure that wikis comply with the guidelines.

The following are good and bad examples of what to put into the "reason" field in the wiki request form. Good examples are marked with green  while bad examples are marked with  red.

=== Good examples ===

This wiki will document about the online video sharing service YouTube. It will document its history, its content creators, its achievements, and the videos hosted on it. Most of its pages would be pages about popular youtubers, popular videos, and important events. This request has a clear purpose (documenting YouTube, its features, and the people who upload videos on it) and scope (only popular YouTubers and videos and important events)

This wiki will be all about wikis. It will document wikis with at least 50 pages as well as wiki farms and wiki engines, all from an encyclopedic point of view. This request may be short, but it does its job. In only 2 sentences, it described the wiki's purpose (documenting information about wikis), topic (wikis and wiki-related things), and scope (wikis with at least 50 pages).

This wiki will be about an imaginary world where the only living things on it were turtles. It would document about imaginary villages, cities, species, and other things in the imaginary world. The imaginary world would have high technology advancement. Another slightly short request, but again, it does its job. It described the wiki's purpose (This wiki will be about an imaginary world), topic (where the only living things on it were turtles), and scope (It would document about imaginary villages, cities, species, and other things in the imaginary world...).

I'd like to create this wiki to save notes for my class. The notes will be general notes such as interesting things and things I want to study about later. It would have lots of notes and some other stuff, such as some interesting or hard questions. (Visiblity: Private) This request is slightly unclear, but acceptable for a private wiki.

=== Bad examples ===

This wiki will be about wikis considered bad by the general community. It will outline the reasons why it's considered bad and the redeeming qualities, if any, it has. Pages about users will not be allowed on this wiki. Although this request has a sufficent purpose and topic, it is likely to cause drama and hate.

This wiki will document about YouTube and its creators. This request is not very clear. Will the wiki be about all YouTube creators or just popular ones? Will it document about hated YouTubers or not? If yes, will it violate the Content Policy or will it establish rules to delete everything policy-violating?

Recently, Fandom has been closing innocent wikis for no reason, so we'd like to host our wiki on Miraheze to be able to customize skins. We'd like this wiki to document an MMO game. This request uses the Fandom part as filler. The actual content is "We'd like this wiki to document an MMO game", the MMO game being unspecified.

A wiki for my imaginary world. Though imaginary world wikis generally have a short description, this request is completely unclear.

I want a wiki This request has absolutely no details about the wiki itself, and thus has no chance of being accepted. When creating your request, avoid doing this at all costs; stating that you want a wiki and nothing else doesn't mean that you will get one.

== Example request ==

Now that we've reviewed the basics of wiki requests, let's follow the wiki requesting process of a user who, one day, decided to request a wiki. Here is that user's first wiki request: When the user submitted it, however, the request was declined. What was wrong with the wiki request? There were several things: The user didn't give up on the wiki, however! The user thought about how the wiki request could be improved and made changes. Here is the user's improved request: This request was approved! It had several major changes:
 * Subdomain (subdomain.miraheze.org): fandomarchives
 * Wiki name: Archives
 * Language: en - English
 * Category: History
 * Private wiki (not readable by everyone; only readable by users given the member or sysop groups): No
 * Will this wiki's main subject(s) be about living people? No
 * The purpose of this wiki is... Documentation (software) wiki
 * Reason: I want to archive fandom events
 * 1) The user did not type out the subdomain correctly. Remember, your subdomain should be in the form subdomain.miraheze.org.
 * 2) The wiki's name didn't fit well with the wiki. A name such as "Fandom Archives" would be better.
 * 3) The user chose a category that didn't fit well with the wiki's purpose. Granted, no category fits well with the wiki's purpose, so the user would've been better off selecting "Uncategorized".
 * 4) The purpose of the wiki the user chose didn't fit well with the wiki's actual purpose. The closest purpose would be "Encyclopedia (specialized) wiki", since it documents events that happened on the wiki farm Fandom. The user could've also chosen "None of the above".
 * 5) The user didn't give enough details about the wiki. "I want to archive fandom events" says nothing about the wiki's topic and scope. The user should've explained what type of events that happened on Fandom (ex. "This wiki will contain important events that happened on the wiki farm Fandom.")
 * Subdomain (subdomain.miraheze.org): fandomarchives.miraheze.org
 * Wiki name: Fandom Archives
 * Language: en - English
 * Category: Uncategorized
 * Private wiki (not readable by everyone; only readable by users given the member or sysop groups): No
 * Will this wiki's main subject(s) be about living people? No
 * The purpose of this wiki is... Encyclopedia (specialized) wiki
 * Reason: This wiki will be about documenting events that happened on the wiki farm Fandom for easy access in the future. The events documented on this wiki will be important, such as a massive vandalism wave on a popular wiki. It will contain primary sources for accuracy, such as transcripts of conversations that users involved in the events had. It will also have chronologies of series of events.
 * 1) The subdomain was changed to an appropriate one.
 * 2) The user changed the category and purpose to fit better with the wiki.
 * 3) The user expanded on the reason, adding what type of content the wiki will have and its purpose.

== My wiki request was declined! What should I do? ==

Don't panic! Think about why your request was declined (for example, your subdomain was invalid or your request unclear) and edit it via the "Edit request" tab to improve it. When you fix the request, you can easily be approved for a wiki.

== My wiki request was approved, what now? ==

Congratulations! You now have a wiki on Miraheze. Being a new wiki owner can be daunting, but Miraheze is very flexible and has a lot of features. For more information on how to properly run a wiki, see this guide. == Examples of good wiki requests ==

These are some examples of good wiki requests. You can use them as an example or template to your wiki request.
 * Chillowverse
 * EASWiki
 * The Highly Trained Monkeys Community
 * Hormononomicon
 * Well-read