Forum:Vaporstory

I had an idea a while back for a new wiki, and I've searched Wikipedia and here several times, never once finding an idea like mine. My idea is to create a wiki that is about a fictional world, like one of the wikis about fandoms, but it's not about a fiction that's already been established. Instead, the users make up the story through the wiki itself. It's sort of like the Wikipedia of a world that doesn't exist.

I started it on Editthis months ago, under the name Vaporstory (long story), but despite my efforts to tell all my real-life friends and my friends on Uncyclopedia, it hasn't gotten much of a userbase. In fact, it's on the verge of dying. According to Why use Wikia?, Wikia is able to promote the idea to other users in a way that other hosting sites can't. Would my wiki work better at Wikia, or is it just inherently a bad idea? 209.247.153.149 23:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Novelas is used for collaboratively creating fiction. Yunzhong just created an Imagination hub to bring the all the creativity Wikia together, though I don't know what people will decide on if the page should be there... ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 7, 2007 @ 00:36 (UTC)


 * I just looked at Novelas; its section on "The Neverending Wiki Project" is close to my idea, but it's not quite the same. For one thing, it's not on its own site and that's bound to put limits on anything that could be done.  I mean, the community doesn't see the project as its focus.  For another thing, from what I could see it doesn't have a system for keeping track of information.  In my project, users would vote on articles to approve them for canon, and noncanon articles would work inside the system already set in place by the canon articles.  Does that sound unique?  (Also, I was going for more of a fantasy/sci-fi mix, but that's trivial...)  67.131.237.4 00:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)  (I don't know why my IP keeps changing, but that's me.)


 * Also, that project appears to be virtually inactive. 216.151.132.14 01:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)


 * What are you talking about, Novelas is highly active. There were piles of edits just in today. Make sure you aren't suffering from the glitch which causes anon users to view the last 0 changes from the last 0 days therefore showing no changes even when dozens have been made. I suggest registering for an account. Wikia's new Slate and smoke skins which are coming in the MW1.10a upgrade being rolled out over Wikia wiki have a rate this article feature. And just for you to note, Wikia normally rejects individual requests for creating fiction in its own wiki. If that was allowed for everyone who wanted to do that Wikia would be overflown with useless wikis. That's the whole reason the fiction wiki(Novelas) exists. You're best off to start there. There isn't too much different in your request compared to the dozens of other rejected ones floating around requests. ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 7, 2007 @ 01:10 (UTC)


 * I meant the Neverending Wiki project portion of Novelas is inactive, but I see what you're saying about fiction wikis being overdone. Should I just propose a new fiction at Novelas--are new communities accepted frequently there?  216.151.132.14 01:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Side note, there is also Conworld, for interactive fictional worlds. --Splarka (talk) 07:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)