Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-28160972-20161117135136/@comment-168424-20161123022935

Look here first: Help:Start a new community

If you can think of things not mentioned in this help page, just say what you'd like to know about.

Here are some other things not mentioned in the help page:
 * Get a cool looking wordmark/logo that reflects the topic of your wiki.
 * Think about a "style guide" for how you want standard articles of various types (people, items, places, etc.) to look (infoboxes, standard sections, where external links should go, etc.).
 * Think about how you want to categorize things and maybe make a simple category tree for articles in advance. Categories are hard to change after the fact.
 * Communicate with active users and encourage them.

Some other help pages to look at starting out:
 * Help:Administrators' how-to guide
 * Help:Bureaucrats' how-to guide
 * Help:Best practices for administrators
 * Help:Theme designer