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SCIFIPEDIA is a wiki dedicated to all genres of the fantastic. If you're not sure what a wiki is, please check the FAQ for general information.

Probably the best-known wiki is Wikipedia, which started in 2001 and which has over 1,000,000 articles on a truly comprehensive range of topics with over a half-million contributors. They are our inspiration and, in many ways, our model. We know that the wide and committed audience for all branches of SF in all its various forms, from movies and television to books and magazines to games to UFO and ET followers, contains many people with a highly developed knowledge and strong opinions relating to that knowledge. We invite all of you to participate in creating an extensive and authoritative database of articles on all of the amazingly wide range of subjects of interest to dedicated devotees and casual consumers.

A wiki is highly collaborative, with no single author solely responsible for the creation of any one entry. We will be compiling those collaborative entries with the help of as many volunteers as we can attract to the site.

However, we've also decided to seek out individual contributions direct from all sorts of creators: executive producers of television shows, directors of films, screenwriters, novelists, artists and anyone else who has exerted direct control over an independent creation. These entries will appear linked with the collaborative entries but the material supplied by these creators will be locked so that it remains the creator's own words, not subject to change by other contributors. If you are a creator and wish to have a statement about your work posted in this fashion, please contact the editor at Editor.Scifipedia@scifi.com.

We ask only a few things, with some necessary ground rules. No statements that are legally actionable will be permitted. If there are entries that become the subject of strong disagreements in which the process of creating consensus is repeatedly violated, the site runners reserve the right to make decisions locking entries in the same way that entries contributed by creators will be locked and also reserve the right to bar further contributions from individuals who deliberately and repeatedly disrupt the process of creating consensus entries. These requirements are summarized and detailed in our Terms of Use and in our Submission Guidelines.

There are some things that SCIFIPEDIA is NOT. SCIFIPEDIA is not a place to create collaborative fanfic. SCIFIPEDIA is not a place to pitch ideas to The SCI FI Channel. SCIFIPEDIA is not a place to post speculative articles. SCIFIPEDIA is not a dictionary. SCIFIPEDIA is not an indiscriminate collector of information. SCIFIPEDIA is not a fan club or a host for arguments and squabbles.

The policy for SCIFIPEDIA is that only registered members will be allowed to contribute entries. The registration will be handled though the SCIFI.COM main website, and registered SCIFI.COM members need only log in. A name and email address will be required, and you'll need to follow an authentication procedure to become a registered member.

We hope you'll be as excited by the idea of SCIFIPEDIA as we are and that you'll bookmark it, visit often, use it as a regular resource, and feel motivated to contribute your thoughts and ideas to its growth.

We welcome input on what we're doing and how we do it. We hope you'll all have fun with the site and we want you all to feel that you have a voice at SCIFIPEDIA. Contact us at Contact.