About Wikis

The term Wiki is commonly used when refering to a web-based collaborative platform that enables users to store, create and modify content in an organized manner. The term comes from the word wiki wiki, which means fast in Hawaiian.

About ArtisWiki

ArtisWiki explores and explains technological methods utilized by artists today. A lot has been published over the years for artists advising them how best to optimise images for the internet, prevent copy by disabling right-mouse click, adding transparent overlays, slicing images, etc. But those authors only research was based on web searches loking for references which has resulted the plagiarism and scraping of other websites, just copies of copies of other copies and almost all of that information was first found the ArtistScope web site. ArtistScope was the first developer and pioneer of copy protection. Today it is the provider of the only DRM and copy protection solutions for web content that actually work.

Other Wikis

Wikipedia is thought to be the world's largest wiki with more than 280,000 articles. It has become quite an extensive collection of information on all manner of notable things, where the emphasis of notability relies on encyclopedic references or newsworthiness. Anyone can add/edit articles providng that they are notable but not self promotional. Notability is based on either encyclopedic reference such as those for flora, fauna and sciences, or they have been featured in new published by mainline news services.

Wikipedia maintains a list of the main news services which are rated according to the status of their contributing authors. Many reknown news services on that list have either been blacklisted or downgraded. For example 2-3 articles published on a whitelisted new service like the New York Post will guarantee submission approval, so will the Guiness World Records. Where this fails is that criminals and pedaphiles cannot stay out of the news and no news outlets fis better than a tabloid... desperate for something to write about. Consequently actors and actresses who have not contributed anything more to society than reading lines and pulling faces for the camera can get into the news by drink driving, flashing body parts, having a baby, getting divorced, being busted for drugs or being injected with Botox, which encompasses most things easiest to do for jackasses.

But rules are rules and they do keep a minion of wiki editors in line, none of which have any notability themselves, but are keen to assert their opinion on anything. Consequently articles are constantly hacked and picked at with a lot of them losing clarity and a lot looks like personal opinion. On one page that we have been watching for more than 20 years, a page that once cited information published on the ArtistScope web site as the #1 reference, we have seen that reference move down the list to eventaul removal. What has taken its place is not more than contrived nonsense published by people with little no history with the topic.

Wikitia is cloned from the same open-source CMS to imitate Wikipedia. If an article is not notable enough for Wikipedia it will be accepted by Wikitia, that is, if you hire one of their editors and pay their fees. But who wants to be seen on Wikitia? When one looks at the most recently created pages one will see mostly personal pages for people claiming to be famous... adorned with gold jewellery and draped over luxury sports cars. A closer look might also show that the editor for most of those pages is the same person which is most dubious.

Wikis are many, perhaps one for every theme/genre imaginable. And there is multitude of wiki editors eagre to get you into any one of them.. for a price. The going rate for article submission in Wikipedia or Wikitia, even if you do all the work by providing the news links and writing the article, is between US$600-1200. Of course payment on delivery (approval) is most recommended and the best way to do that will be via a freelencing agency. However successful completion needs to be a condition of the contract and one shouldn't be hasty in finalising because the article's approval can be reversed weeks later when other editors have had their chance to attack it.

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