Forum:Pointless Wikis

You say we need adverts because the wikia is getting bigger but you seem to be doing nothing about those pointless wikis, with no pages, or at least very few, that just need deleting. After searching for about 15 minutes I managed to find all of these pointless wikis.


 * http://obliviongame.wikia.com/
 * http://oblivionisilder.wikia.com/
 * http://oblivionfreaks.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapeinfo.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapers.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapers.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapehelp.wikia.com/
 * http://run3scap3.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapepowners.wikia.com/
 * http://therunescape.wikia.com/
 * http://therunewiki.wikia.com/
 * http://runegamer.wikia.com/
 * http://runescape2.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapeprices.wikia.com/
 * http://runescaperox.wikia.com/
 * http://nl.superken222.wikia.com/
 * http://gonezerka.wikia.com/
 * http://ro.runescape.wikia.com/ - Romanian
 * http://zh.runescape.wikia.com/ - Chinese
 * http://tr.runescape.wikia.com/ - Turkish
 * http://cs.runescape.wikia.com/ - Czech
 * http://af.runescape.wikia.com/ - Afrikaans
 * http://bg.runescape.wikia.com/ - Bulgarian
 * http://lt.runescape.wikia.com/ - Lithuanian
 * http://da.runescape.wikia.com/ - Danish
 * http://sk.runescape.wikia.com/ - Slovak
 * http://pt.runescape.wikia.com/ - Portuguese
 * http://fr.runescape.wikia.com/ - French
 * http://sl.runescape.wikia.com/ - Slovene
 * http://runescapequests.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapeguilds.wikia.com/
 * http://runescapetcg.wikia.com/
 * http://lastrepublic.wikia.com/
 * http://aeazencombine.wikia.com/
 * http://rsmv.wikia.com/
 * http://nano.wikia.com/
 * http://saphira.wikia.com/
 * http://de.worldofwarcraft89.wikia.com/
 * http://de.meinwow.wikia.com/
 * http://wowroleplay.wikia.com/

I can't believe that half of those even got allowed, there must be loads more like that. Your rules must be a lot stricter if we don't want to end up filling the wikis with adverts. And if you say we need to allow people to create wikis freely, I totally agree, but this is just stupid.

So have fun looking through those, most have them have no pages.

HeadShot 22:29, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Please, when posting a list of something, put a * at start of every lines.
 * I personnally dont know if it happen that Wikia get rid of empty wiki but what i know, is that when one find wikis like that, they should try to put a message on the founder talk page there, wait for reply and then put it in adoption. — TulipVorlax 02:13, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * All wikis are allowed since anyone can create a wiki without any aproval from Wikia. Just fill the Special:CreateWiki form and in seconds you have a new wiki. I would like to see how many wikis created using this tool have at least 1 content page (not counting the main page). This would show the failure of the idea of that this will increase the successfulness of the new created wikis, in contrast of the manually aproval on requests. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 09:14, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Some are more pointless than others.
 * I think that
 * http://worom.wikia.com/wiki/Runesofmagic_Wiki
 * should be redirected to
 * http://rom.wikia.com/wiki/Runes_of_Magic_Wiki
 * The first has no article, the second has 392.
 * The first has the name of the game spelled wrong.
 * — TulipVorlax 08:08, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi all,

I know the AutoCreate tool has caused a lot of changes at Wikia. We are creating more wikis than ever before -- we will probably create more wikis in the month of May than we did in the entire year of 2008! So far we are pleased with how this is going.

We expected that people would create a lot of duplicate wikis. What we weren't sure of was whether these duplicates would thrive in the face of established competition, or whether they'd be able to provide a fresh enough take on existing subjects to be able to attract new users.

We are taking a "wait and see" approach for the next few months, while we carefully watch the impact of duplicates on user habits, page views, and more. We are also refining our tools for closing, merging, and redirecting projects that fail to grow. We won't be closing any of these wikis just yet, but when we have more data about what provides value to our users, we can start weeding out the abandoned ones.

(Also, HeadShot, please note that some of the wikis you pointed out in the middle of your list are simply RuneScape wikis in other languages. They may be small or dormant right now but it will only take a few enthusiastic players from these countries to bring these wikis to life -- they definitely should not be deleted.)

As always, we appreciate the Wikia community's help in aiding these new users: answering questions in forums and chatrooms, helping small wikis you are interested in to create their first twenty pages, and guiding them to existing resources that they might not be aware of. Thank you for all you do! — Catherine (talk) 22:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)