Help:Technical Information

The technical information for this wiki is as follows. This wiki is part of the collector's network of collaborative websites, called WikiCollectables. It's goal is to be the first on-line guide for collectors. WikiCollectables dot-com is the "portal", hosting 40+ collector wikis, and WikiSafe, the automated escrow exchange site.

WikiCollectables is a "forked" project from the WikiMedia Foundation, the creators of Wikipedia. We have taken MediaWiki, the open source software that runs Wikipedia, and added two custom-coded extensions to enable it for e-commerce. Users can post buy/sell ads to any article, then trade securely using the automated escrow exchange site, WikiSafe. WikiSafe is designed specifically for WikiCollectables and links directly to the wikis. Users can simply select "Make a WikiSafe Offer" on any ad to initiate an exchange. The software is currently in beta.

We have bought the e-mediawiki.com domain name (the "e" in e-mediawiki is for e-commerce) and plan to host this new, e-commerce version of MediaWiki at this domain. This will allow us to share the source code, collaborate on new features and track updates.