Fiction Wikia, the place where you can write fiction.

Kernigh at other wikis: http://kernigh.pbwiki.com/WikiNode

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Kernigh, yet another wiki author. I made most of my contributions during two seasons.

• first season 30 November 2005 to 30 March 2006
• second season 25 January 2007 to 4 April 2007

Minor contributions to...

• One-word-at-a-time
• Fortunately unfortunately

I work upon Governing Federal Democratic League, a part of the Wikiverse. It is not easy, especially because I have to use ancient Konqueror and MediaWiki technology to write about future wikis.

If I find time, I also have interest with NetHack.

[edit] Freedom Fiction

Until 19 June 2009, this wiki used the GNU Free Documentation License. Why would I use the GNU Free Documentation License for fiction?

1. I use free software. I frequently use OpenBSD and KDE. I use some GNU packages including GCC, GNU binutils, GNU groff.
2. Free software requires free licensing. It is important to have the four freedoms to use the software, examine the software, share the software, and improve the software.
3. Free software needs free documentation. I want to know how to use the software. It is important to have the freedoms to read the manual, examine the manual, share the manual, and improve the manual.
4. The GNU Free Documentation License provides free licensing to free software manuals.
5. Other than software manuals, it is also a good idea to have free reference manuals or textbooks for other subjects. The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource is a good idea.
6. The GNU Free Documentation License is also good for these other reference manuals or textbooks. From its preamble, "We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference."
7. These freedoms are not so useful for fiction. If I write fiction, I may not want others to modify the fiction in ways other than what I intended.
8. However, it remains appropriate to experiment, to apply the freedoms to some works of fiction, that is, to have the freedoms to read the fiction, examine the fiction, share the fiction, and improve the fiction.
9. If I allow others to improve my fiction, I want the improved fiction to remain free. Therefore I must use a copyleft. "Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well."
10. The GNU Free Documentation License provides these freedoms and a copyleft. From its preamble, the license provides for my fiction "the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially."

At 19 June 2009, this wiki switched from the GNU Free Documentation License to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The current CC-BY-SA license is similar to the previous GFDL license. Both licenses provide the same freedoms.

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• I, Yunzhong Hou, hereby give Kernigh the Wiki Medal for being a major content contributor to this site. (see Novelas/Manual for award criteria) Yunzhong Hou ^{5000+ edits} 21:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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