Thanks again to my friend Matt, we now have a consistent basis to rank mediawiki sites on www.wikindex.com. The score is essentially a combined log(10) of the daily updates, number of articles, and user count. The philosophy guiding the score is that a successful wiki is really reflective of an active community, and would need a fair population of users, a critical mass of articles for a base reference, and maintenance/currency from daily updates.
If you have a wiki, please consider adding it to the wikindex. We will continue to work on gathering stats from the dekiwiki crowd and hope to add those rankings in as well. We are open to any suggestions for improvement. One that occurs to me: remove the google ads– maybe not worth it?
Some odd things to note from the rankings: World of Warcraft fanboys write a lot, but not as much as the Star Wars geeks (Triumph could have told you that). Both beat Star Trek. Superman and Batman are bigger than Final Fantasy (as it should be) but smaller that Yu-Gi-Oh (Wha-t3h-fu?). Just outside the top 50, however, is a wiki about furries (*blech**shudder* no link on purpose) and it’s bigger than the Conservapedia: a wiki for right-wing nutters.
Anybody who shudders at the thought of furries learned everything they know about them from fictional TV shows. Dave, you’re a prejudiced asshole.
The standard defense when accused of being prejudiced is “no, I’m not prejudiced against ______; some of my best friends are _____!” However, in this case, I cannot play that one, because– to the best of my knowledge– none of my friends like to yiff around at the ramada inn twice a month.
Yes, I did see the CSI episode about furries, but beyond that, I spent an hour surfing through the furrypedia. My policy stands: blecchh. Remember, we’re talking about sexual preference here, so you wierdos go knock yourselves out, and I will fight like a demon to protect your liberty to do so, but I can still say ‘blecchh’. That’s _my_ liberty. Get it?
Calling someone you’ve never met directly a ‘prejudiced asshole’ rates a 9 on my ironic-o-meter.
If you’re giving an opinion on a sexual preference, that’s OK. You’re entitled to that. I do however find it odd that you managed to surf WikiFur for an hour and maintain the view that sex is solely or primarily what furry fandom or the furry community is about.
Most furs like sex in some form or another; many enjoy artwork, writing and roleplaying which includes it - either openly or secretly. It’s a popular topic. But it’s secondary to our love of the concept of anthropomorphic animals and for our fellow furs, just as a goth’s love of the macabre is an expression of the tenants of the goth subculture, and not an indication that they are obsessed with death.
The strength of furry fandom is the shared sense of community which binds us together. Take Anthrocon: 3,000+ people don’t travel hundreds or thousands of miles (just) to have sex. They go there because that’s where their friends are gathered; where they can relax and feel most at home, and socialize. (Or perhaps just because they want to see the 400 or so fursuiters running around, or pick up some nifty art, although the Internet has made both of these quite easy). It’s the sort of community where lost wallets get handed in with all the money remaining in them.
In short, furry fans love one another - from the basic decency that comes from a sense of shared ideals, all the way up to fraternal brotherhood - and sometimes beyond that, to romantic involvement. And that’s why sex is involved: because sex is a natural expression of love.