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Dragon Warriors GM's Wiki

I note that wetpaint lets me backup my wiki. I wonder if I can import those articles from wetpaint.

Cheers RJL

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Hi! We are happy to help migrate a wiki from elsewhere; we can have a look at Wetpaint's export format and see how compatible it is.

Are you talking about writing about the game system as a whole, or about a campaign run/played by a particular set of players? If it is an individual campaign, I suggest that you start at a mini-wiki at Scratchpad (info), our host for smaller projects.

Wikia does not host private or password-protected wikis, as our company mission is to host large public communities of freely-licensed content; if there is a temporary problem with public information, you may want to wait until it is resolved before opening a wiki here.

On a related note, all information submitted to Wikia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (the same license Wikipedia uses) which allows others to copy and re-use the content. This might be a consideration if you are planning to publish actual game system or expansion materials here, especially if you are in negotiation with the authors who own the copyright.

Please let me know how you'd like to proceed -- I'm happy to answer any questions you have. — Catherine (talk) 16:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyright issues

The wiki will be about the game system, not a specific campaign.

I will confer with the group at Yahoo Groups. Certainly the hesitation has been out of concern over copyright from the authors / their assigns. The group does prefer, it seems, Wikia's format to Wetpaint's, but at least Wetpaint lets us run a closed wiki. In part for that reason I chose Wetpaint as I knew we could play in a private sandbox building a wiki, then 'go live' once copyright issues were resolved.

My next question, I suppose, is whether the authors of the Fighting Fantasy wiki I mentioned earlier have obtained author approval to run their wiki - as the issues I believe are quite similar. Indeed, the way they secured consent from the authors might inform us as to how we can 'go live'.

Otherwise, watch this space I suppose, and post any other queries that you have.

There isn't any violation of copyright in writing about the game, the way Fighting Fantasy (or Dungeons & Dragons or World of Warcraft, for that matter) does -- it only comes into play if text is directly copied from an original work. I only mentioned it because it sounded like you were in contact with the original authors, and if you were planning to place the original (out-of-print?) work online with their permission our GFDL requirement would have an impact on that. If not, you are perfectly free to describe things like races, settings, combat mechanics, and so on as long as you are using your own words. Obviously it would be nice to have the blessing of the authors, and to respect their wishes if they object to having such a site, but you don't need to get previous permission in order to build a website for fans and enthusiasts. Hope that clarifies matters -- I look forward to hearing your group's decision. — Catherine (talk) 01:26, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined

Just noting your decline message today, which is fine for now: 1. Can we reserve the dw.wikia.com URL? 2. Is there any way this wiki could run closed at wikia.com? RJLambert