Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-46036088-20200608214453/@comment-45015105-20200609003809

Mendes2 wrote: There are also plenty of wikis that are duplicating content, covering similar/same topics, or covering obscure/unknown topics, and if those wikis would get the word out, this could hurt established wikis and the entire Fandom network in the long run. Users mainly tend to work only on the topics they are interested in, or on the topics that they feel they can add to. Staff has made initiatives for well-organized but smaller wikis to get more exposure, such as the spotlight, but I reckon that the effect of that is very small. Users don't really go searching for wikis that could potentially be fun, but either they come on the wiki through Google, or they search for the topics they like themselves.

Mendes2 wrote: There are also a lot of wikis that people want to work on or create, but leave them after a few months, because editing it gets boring, or they actually don't know what else they should add to it. And growing a community definitely is hard work, especially from scratch, that's why you are encouraged to start contributing on existing wikis, instead of starting your own. However, getting your own wiki among the established ones after a while can be rewarding, but whether the reward outweighs the effort is up to you (or it's just a personal project, in which case, good for you). Me, personally, started editing on an abandoned wiki (that was abandoned for years), in order to first get it updated, and then get it more well-known, if possible. That saved me all the trouble of setting up a first base, creating a design, and searching for all that information, which would have cost a lot of time. However, there is also the matter of theme or genre of the wiki: "lifestyle" wikis (non-games, non-movies, non-tv...) generally don't do very well on the entire platform.

Mendes2 said it better than I could.