User talk:Toughpigs

Small wikis
I just read your survey answers and your user page. You are so right about making the smaller Wikis work! I found your Beginners Guide for the Muppet Wiki, and changed it around a lot to use on the Psychology Wiki (where I'm an admin). People seem to think that Wikia wikis will all work like Wikipedia and they are wrong. You beginners guide has helped us a lot, thanks, and the Muppet Wiki is great.

I was wondering if you wanted to have a look at this article I started on why some wikis are working and others have died. Your perspective on making small wikis work would be valuable in improving the article: Will Wikis Work? thanks Mostly Zen 14:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks for saying hi and (unintentionally) kicking my ass to finish that piece I was writing on my user page. I've been meaning to get to it for a long time, but knowing that someone was actually reading the thing got me working on it again! So I just added a bunch of stuff to that page -- if you get around to reading the new version, I'd love to know what you think.


 * I also just posted some additions to Will Wikis Work?, and some comments on the talk page. It's cool that you're getting some discussion started on these issues; I think it's really important, and fun to talk about.


 * So if you read my user page thing, you'll see that I have a thing about knowing people's actual first names -- can you tell me yours? :) -- Danny (talk ) 20:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Danny, my name is Tom Michael. I like the contributions you've made to the Will Wikis Work article.  Honestly I'm amazed that more people aren't asking this stuff, considering how many dead wikis there are.  I am thinking of asking the Admins of all the active Wikis to read/contribute to this article and make related articles on how to make things work better.  You idea of making small communities is spot on.  I made the analogy of a thriving village compared to a dead city.


 * Our wiki (Psychology) is 5th largest in terms of content, but we dont have that many contributors, I think you are 4th largest and then its the Starwars and star trek wikis. We really need to work on getting the critical number of contributors for our wikis individually.


 * If i get tired of editing my Wiki, I will pop by and clean up/add to some muppet articles, because your project looks like so much fun, ours can be too serious sometimes :) Mostly Zen [[Image:Baby_tao.jpg]] (talk ) 22:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, Tom, it's nice to meet you! I think people are getting more interested in talking about the "will wikis work" issues -- there's been some related discussion on the Central Wikia mailing list, and I know that there's going to be a lot of that at the Wikimania conference in August. I think you started writing about this just at the right time -- it'll be interesting to see how other people add to and comment on your piece.


 * I looked at the Psychology wiki -- wow, I can't believe you guys have put together 7500 articles! That's awesome. I'm a little confused by the site indexing -- it seems like you've built a big extra index infrastructure, instead of just using the category tags. I've found that categories can be a really helpful navigation tool; you just have to be thoughtful about how you set up the category structure. Is there a reason why you guys are using categories the way that you are?


 * And yeah, absolutely, come hang out at Muppet Wiki sometime! It would be cool to see you there. -- Danny (talk ) 00:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

User survey
Hi. I moved your survey to Wikia Brand Audit User Survey/5 since the numbering on the index page was wrong and we ended up with two 4s. Thanks a lot for helping with this survey. Angela (talk) 18:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)