Forum:Wiki Domain Name Advice

Hi, I'm an admin to the wiki at http://tlbbeu.wikia.com/, which is a wiki for the MMO TLBB. I'm looking for some advice as to whether the name should remain TLBBEU.wikia.com or be moved to TLBB.wikia.com.

I think the background to the status of the game is important:

TLBB originated as game in China, and is still played there massively, moving into a new game system/content which is basically "TLBB 2". TLBB has been exported to other countries, managed in-house by the company ChangYou. They are manged by regional offices, with updates being individual to each place. For example, the Vietnamese version of TLBB has a great deal of different content to the EU version, not just localisation differences, but it's updated differently, though there is a great deal of shared content.

One of the big issues also is that the Northern American version of TLBB is called "Dragon Oath", which is really quite different to the name TLBB.

I'm led to the question of moving tlbbeu.wikia.com because there's a Polish wiki newly set up at pl.tlbb.wikia.com. Would it be wisest to move that to pl.tlbbeu.wikia.com?

After writing this, I'm swaying to move the Polish wiki to tlbbeu.wikia.com..

If anyone has any tips on language versions of wikis, they'd also be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, BeardedBee 21:19, July 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Personally, I think it would be better to have a tlbb.wikia.com and have portals to the different types of game. If versions in different languages are significantly different then you could just document the differences. A wikia preceded by language codes like pl for Polish are primarily to indicate the primary descriptive language of the Wikia and not a language specific version of the topic subject (in this case TLBB). But if your visitors are told right away that a language specific wikia is also specific to a region specific version, then I suppose it's okay. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:27 AM PST 13 Jul 2010

Thanks for your replies Fandyllic and LordTBT. I've spoken to an admin and GM for the Dragon Oath Wiki, which is hosted on their own server, and they were quite happy to share content. At the moment I think I'll keep it at TLBBeu.wikia.com. I haven't heard any interest in wikis for the Vietnamese or Chinese versions, and there's certainly a lot of potential for difficulty in variations.
 * You need to consider what people are going to be Googling. Is it TLBB, or TLBBEU? Also I would recommend communicating with the Dragon Oath Wiki people about setting up language links and collaborating, etc. -- LordTBT Talk! 23:07, July 13, 2010 (UTC)

The Polish one is for the same area, so I'll get them to move to tlbbeu.wikia.com so we can syncronise. Perhaps in the future there will be opportunities and the desire to incorperate regional variations of the platform.

If anyone does have any tips for different language wikis for the same content I'll gladly read it.

Thanks again, kind regards -BeardedBee 15:21, July 19, 2010 (UTC)