Help:Webinars

Wikia Webinars are monthly presentations provided by the Community Support team to provide live educational sessions that include best practices, pro tips, and introductions to new features. Webinars are open to any and all Wikians, so register today!

Upcoming Webinars

 * February 15th, 3pm PST (11pm UTC): Social Media & Your Wiki Register
 * Are you looking to spread the word about your wiki? Have you considered using Twitter, Facebook or social media sites to attract more community members? If so, then join us to learn tips, tricks and how to get started from Wikia's own Social Media Coordinators!
 * March 22nd, 3pm PST (11pm UTC): Advanced Ways to Customize Your Wiki Register
 * Ever noticed a beautifully customized wiki and wondered how their admins made it that way? Then join us for this webinar! We will walk you through how to take the next step past the theme designer to further customize your wiki. This session will review how to find CSS classes, page namespaces, system messages and much more!

Wikia Features
Videos on Your Wiki Aired December 14, 2012

The session overviews embedding a video in a page, as well as the Related Videos Module and Special:Videos features. We discuss the content you can find on our video wiki, as well as a sneak peek at what you will see on Wikia in 2013.

Best Practices for Structuring your Wiki Aired April 20, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of how to set up a good framework for categories, namespaces and navigationso that it is easy for users to find relevant content and helps editors say organized.

Admin Tools Aired October 4, 2011

This webinar provides an overview of the admin dashboard, including a tour of special pages, review of wiki features and other admin only tools.

Deep Dive
Wikia Copyright Aired January 24, 2013

This webinar overviews the basics of Copyright law, provides details on how copyright applies to your contributions on Wikia, how the CC-BY-SA license works, and offers best practices for adding content and images to your wiki.

Intro to CSS Aired August 3, 2012

This webinar provides an introduction to using CSS on your wiki. The basic elements, where to apply them.

SEO Tips &amp; Tricks Aired May 9, 2012

This webinar provides an introduction to SEO - Search Engine Optimization. It details how you can make specific changes to your wiki to help improve your wiki's search rank. Search results are a major driver of wiki's traffic, and this webinar overviews what Wikia does in the background to help as well as what you can do on your wiki to improve your SEO.

Main Pages Aired October 19, 2012

This webinar overviews how to design your main page using the appropriate tags, tips now to keep your main page up to date, and overall design best practices. The video also offers a how to on improving your main page's SEO as well as how to integrate social media sites into your main page.

Templates 101 Aired February 10, 2012

This webinar provides a detailed instruction on embedding and customizing templates, with a specific look at infoboxes. Watch this recording to learn how to adjust a template to match your wiki's content and design.

Creative Commons Review Aired March 16, 2012

This webinar overview's the Creative CommonsLicense used by Wikia, what is states, how its applied and covers the basics you should be aware of as a wiki contributor.

Community Management Tips
Community Discussions Aired November 16, 2012

This webinar provides advice on how to start and manage positive community discussions and decision making conversations on your wiki. It covers how to develop policies, guidelines and compromise. It also covers the tools you can use for conversations, includes Message Wall and Talk pages, Chat and Forums.

Community Guidelines Aired September 14, 2012

This webinar focuses on building and updating community guidelines on your wiki. We overview what to work towards, what to avoid and provide examples of good guidelines found throughout Wikia.

Wiki Management Tools Aired June 8, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of the tools Admins and community members can you to help manage their wiki. In this webinar we will walk you through how to use recent changes, page history and logs as well as tour Special Pages. We will explain in detail all aspects of these pages and offer advice on best practices for using them to help manage your wiki.

Handling Conflict Aired January 13, 2012

This webinar provides a advice how to handle conflict on your wiki. Whenever a group of people work together, there is bound to be some disagreements. This webinar will provide tips on how to handle these types of situations and where to find help.

Design &amp; Promotion Tips Aired December 2, 2011

This webinar provides advice on how to make a great wiki design using the Theme designer tool, with tips on what to work towards and what to avoid. We also review how to promote your wiki on social media sites, set up affiliates and grow your wiki community