Animals are the independent subwikis of a Dokuwiki farm. To create a new animal a name has to be assigned. For .htaccess based setups this should be a single word. For domain based setups you should provide either a full qualified domain name. If you use a wildcard subdomain setup you can also just provide the hostname part. Examples: * .htaccess based: ''foo'' for an animal accessible at ''%%http://example.org/dokuwiki/!foo/%%'' * domain based: ''%%www.foo.com%%'' for an animal accessible at ''%%http://www.foo.com/%%'' * sub domain based: ''foo'' for an animal accessible at ''%%http://foo.example.com/%%'' The latter two require the appropriate DNS setup! Further you need to decide how the administrator of the wiki should be created.