Help:Webinars

Wikia Webinars are monthly presentations provided by the Community Support team to provide live educational sessions that include best practices, pro tips, and introductions to new features. Webinars are open to any and all Wikians, so register today!

Upcoming Webinars

 * January 24th, 3pm PST (10pm UTC): Copyright Basics  Register now

Webinars Recordings
Videos on your wiki Aired December 14, 2012

The session overviews embedding a video in a page, as well as the Related Videos Module and Special:Videos features. We discuss the content you can find on our video wiki, as well as a sneak peek at what you will see on Wikia in 2013.

Community discussions webinar Aired November 16, 2012

This webinar provides advice on how to start and manage positive community discussions and decision making conversations on your wiki. It covers how to develop policies, guidelines and compromise. It also covers the tools you can use for conversations, includes Message Wall and Talk pages, Chat and Forums.

Main pages Aired October 19, 2012

This webinar overviews how to design your main page using the appropriate tags, tips now to keep your main page up to date, and overall design best practices. The video also offers a how to on improving your main page's SEO as well as how to integrate social media sites into your main page.

Community Guidelines Aired September 14, 2012

This webinar focuses on building and updating community guidelines on your wiki. We overview what to work towards, what to avoid and provide examples of good guidelines found throughout Wikia.

Intro to CSS Aired August 3, 2012

This webinar provides an introduction to using CSS on your wiki. The basic elements, where to apply them.

Wiki Management Tools Aired June 8, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of the tools Admins and community members can you to help manage their wiki. In this webinar we will walk you through how to use recent changes, page history and logs as well as tour Special Pages. We will explain in detail all aspects of these pages and offer advice on best practices for using them to help manage your wiki.

SEO tips &amp; tricks!
 * SEO Tips and Tricks


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Best Practices for Structuring your Wiki: Categories, Navigation and More, oh my!
 * Best Practices for Structuring your Wiki Categories, Namespaces and Navigation


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What is your copyright - A webinar focused on content licensing with Creative Commons
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Templates 101 - Tips for editing &amp; creating templates on Wikia
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Keeping The Peace - Best practices for handling conflict on your wiki
 * thumb|550px|left|This webinar focuses on best practices for handling conflict on your wiki.

Tips for Designing &amp; Promoting Your Wiki
 * thumb|550px|left|This webinar focuses on best practices for creating a great wiki design and ideas for how to grow your community.

New Product Updates &amp; Best Practices
 * thumb|550px|left|Interested in learning more about the expanded wiki navigation and the message wall? Then listen to our webinar and discussion with members of the Wikia's Product team.

Admin Tools &amp; Tips
 * thumb|550px|left|Are you a wiki admin looking to learn more about your tools and rights? Then listen to this tour of the admin dashboard, wiki features and user rights.