Forum:Anime Network

I've been browsing the wiki's in the Anime and manga category and noticed that a number of them are inactive. In fact the Anime wiki itself is mostly not active. The Digimon wiki is inactive and it's admins are to. The Dragonball wiki has no admins but a somewhat active set of users. All 3 of the Inuyasha wiki's admins are inactive and there are few editors. The Last Exile wiki is basicly dead. The Zatch Bell wiki never even got off the ground. And the admin of the Naruto wiki only did a little but is inactive now, but it has a decent user base.

Looking arround I also noticed that none of the anime wikis even mention each other, and it gave me an idea. I was considering a small wiki network, we have a wiki about Naruto, Inuyasha, etc... and a wiki about Anime in general. What about linking them together. That is, the Anime wiki with it's list would have a general article about all the other animes, and articles about animes with wikis about them would be linked to. In adition those wikis would link back to the Anime wiki with a link in the sidebar.

I'm not saying that we should poke a number of people into becoming the admins for the different wikis, admins should adopt a wiki by choice in a hope to improve it. But while I've never heared about Last Exile, and I've only watched a little of Zatch Bell so I wouldn't be of much help there either (Plus I don't think I could help out the Digimon wiki.) I'm sure I could be of use in the Naruto wiki, and possibly the Inuyasha wiki, and while I haven't watched Dragonball in awhile (but still remember a good bit) I think the Dragonball wiki has enough of a user base already for me to deal with that to.

I know I am not usualy up to promoting a new sysop on The Gaiapedia because there are to many people who either don't fit the profile, or aren't active enough to fit it. But this is a bit of a big project, and If I could start this to try and impove a number of the anime wikis I'm sure I'd promote a few of the active members of the individual wikis in the process.

Would anyone think of any objections, or dare I say, want to aid help?

Dantman (Talk) 17:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a good idea, linking similar wikis into a network might help in moving people between them and getting them more active. And we can admin anyone who wants to take on specific wikis, that's no problem at all -- sannse (talk) 12:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, in that case. I'd definately like to Adopt the English Naruto and Inuyasha Wikia as I feel I can do a lot to improve those two. I'll look over it sometime to see if I can do as much for Dragonball. But since the english Anime Wikia is also dead, and that would be the centerpoint of the network, I'd like to adopt that to. I'd like to start off on some of the administrative things such as removing duplicate images, fixing multiple improperly named attempts at uploading a new site logo, fixing up site layout and sidebars, and in the case of the Inuysha wiki fixing the bad attempt at a disclaimer and fixing the Main Page to. Dantman (Talk) 19:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh ya, and as with the gaiapedia. Could I have a bot flag placed on User:AnimeBot for the Anime, Naruto, and Inuyasha Wikia. Dantman (Talk) 23:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * On the Anime wiki, I noticed the site namespace is Anime. But that's a generalized namespace that could possibly be wanted for some purpose in the future. It might be better to change the site name to Animepedia and make that the site namespace. Dantman (Talk) 00:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd also like to know how I can get my browsers to display the Japanese characters that are in the Anime and Inuyasha Wikia. They work on Safari at school, but not on Opera or Firefox at home. Dantman (Talk) 20:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)