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What is a Wetpaint Site

What is a Wetpaint site?	Wetpaint sites are "click-and-type" websites that are easy to start and even easier to expand, because you can invite anyone you like to add text, photos, links, and other content to your Wetpaint site. To add or edit content, all you need to do is click the EasyEdit button to activate an editing toolbar similar to what you'd see in programs like Microsoft Word. Then just start typing!
What do people use Wetpaint sites for?	Wetpaint sites can be used for all kinds of things. Here are just a few: Personal Uses - You might want to start a Wetpaint site where you post photos for your family and friends to see and share. This is an easy way to keep people connected to what's happening in your life and helps you avoid sending out tons of email. Reference - Are you an expert on fly fishing or do you have the inside scoop on all the best Hollywood gossip? You could start a Wetpaint site as an online reference for like-minded people. Imagine passionate online discussions about the latest Brangelina gossip or trends in fly-fishing lures with people from around the world. Clubs and Organizations - Are you the one tasked with getting the local PTA group online and up to speed? It's easy to start a site for your group using Wetpaint. And even better -- you can delegate. The Wetpaint platform makes sharing the workload much easier.
Why choose Wetpaint over other Wiki services?	Wetpaint has created several videos listed below that demonstrate the advantages of Wetpaint over competitors such as freewebs or wikia.

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What a disappointing adds

Jan 14 2010, 3:45 PM EST by Baby_Apple

Thread started: Jan 14 2010, 1:07 PM EST Watch

Wow... this service might be okey, but their marketing department must really be trying to scare me away with all these videos.

Take the first video: "Why use webpaint?"
The gist: Sarah is a scooter lover, but she has no scooter lover friends. The solution: she creates a scooter website and invites all her scooter lover friends, who in turn invite their scooter lover friends, creating a huge community.

Sorry? Let's get this straight, she has no scooter lover friends, makes a website and then she suddenly has those friends as she can now invite them?

And the wiki vs. Wetpaint videos...
Much of what they say is simply untrue, exaggerated (by a factor 20) and even where they may have a point, they are not having a fair comparison. You can't compare apples and pears, nor can you compare a piece of software (let's assume they mean MediaWiki, if they don't they are even comparing a service with a type of program, which makes even less sense) with a service. If there was someone tro provide a service based on MediaWiki, then you would have something to compare to... And probably then installing won't be more than a few clicks either. On top of that, you can host your own MediaWiki if you want to spend half an hour installing (36 hours? That guy must have been typing with his tongue or something) which you cannot do with wetpaint.

Really, this "marketing" makes me want to puke and never look at this website again. However, I will be fair and evaluate the usefulness of wetpaint for the thing I meant it for. But you won't hear me complaining over the fact that wetpaint is not even trying to be what I am looking for...

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RE: What a disappointing adds
By: Baby_Apple, Jan 14 2010, 3:45 PM EST

"Sorry? Let's get this straight, she has no scooter lover friends, makes a website and then she suddenly has those friends as she can now invite them?

And the wiki vs. Wetpaint videos...
Much of what they say is simply untrue, exaggerated (by a factor 20) and even where they may have a point, they are not having a fair comparison. You can't compare apples and pears, nor can you compare a piece of software (let's assume they mean MediaWiki, if they don't they are even comparing a service with a type of program, which makes even less sense) with a service. If there was someone tro provide a service based on MediaWiki, then you would have something to compare to... And probably then installing won't be more than a few clicks either. On top of that, you can host your own MediaWiki if you want to spend half an hour installing (36 hours? That guy must have been typing with his tongue or something) which you cannot do with wetpaint."

Sarah does have scooter lover friends, just not enough to create a community. If her scooter lover friends contact their scooter lover friends, and so on, she will soon have a large scooter lover community. The point of a Wiki is to reach a global audience. Wetpaint allows you to do that.

I have used MediaWiki myself, and I agree that it is a very nice program. But MediaWiki is designed for more advanced users who want to host their own Wikis. Wetpaint has an easier editing interface, and they host your Wiki so you don't need to worry about buying a static IP address, a dedicated server, etc.

It seems to me that you don't know very much about Wetpaint. My guess is that you've been using MediaWiki awhile and came here to complain about our service simply because it differs from the one you use.

Baby Apple

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Sites for public high school teachers

Dec 8 2009, 12:12 PM EST by CryingDove

Thread started: Dec 8 2009, 11:24 AM EST Watch

Wetpaint use to remove ads from sites at no charge for teachers . Does it still do so? If so, how can a teacher have ads removed from his or her site?

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