Help:URL

The wiki's URL, refers to the domain name is holds at http://WIKINAME.wikia.com. This differs from wiki's sitename, which appears on your browser tab and sidebar.

Choosing a good name

 * The name should be generic so that people can guess the location of your wiki. For example, people might guess the URL of music.wikia.com if they were looking for a wiki about music. Real words are therefore preferable to made up terms such as wikimusic or mymusicwiki.


 * A clear wiki name will also help your project to rank higher in search engines if it matches the keywords people are likely to use in searching.


 * The name should be short and easy to spell to avoid people typing the wrong URL when trying to find your wiki. It will be rendered in all lower case in the subdomain name, so avoid names that utilize CamelCase for clarity, eg HawaiiIsland would become hawaiiisland.wikia.com.


 * The URL can contain letters and numbers, but not spaces or punctuation.


 * The URL also cannot be the same as a language code. See Help:Languages for a list of these. For example, "en" is reserved to mean an English language Wikia, and cannot be used as the name for your wiki.

Changing a wiki's URL
A wiki's url can be changed (if the new URL is not taken), but must be done by Wikia Staff. You can use Special:contact to request a url change if you are a wiki admin.