Forum:Searching for a specific wiki

I feel like I must be missing something obvious. From the main Wikia homepage, I can't find any way to browse all available wikis. The drop-down lists at the top have some, but are woefully inadequate. Even behind their "More" links there are only ten wikis listed, with no apparent way to search for more.

So how do I find out if there is a wiki for a particular topic, and how to get there?

-- Powers 01:58, May 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is a link in the sidebar to Hubs, or maybe try the search box, or The wiki list.--Sxerks 03:54, May 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikia hosts more than 100k wikis. If you know what you're looking for, use the search field. If not, start exploring by going via the hubs, which show off the bigger ones. 10:11, May 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm thinking that link to the Hubs needs to be made more obvious. I tried the search function but it seemed to search pages within the various wikis, rather than searching for a specific wiki. Powers 01:13, May 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, i think Wikia need a search wiki along with the search page/information. — TulipVorlax 01:56, May 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hubs only list a tiny proportion and several (hubs) were deleted anyway, as part of the restructuring so defeating the object of them IMO. If your wikis is not a Gaming, Entertainment, Lifestyle or sport based wiki you do not matter to Wikia currently. New wikis are not added to hubs any way now from what was said in earlier discussion from what i remember. A solution would be to add all new wikis to a master category automatically and then let the admin move them to relevant sub cats by leaving a note in the intro page on the new site (the master sub cat list being created by agreement with the Wikia community to restrict its size). the 'more button' on some of the sub hubs that exist could then go to the relevant sub category for that hubs subject area, instead of irrelevant pages. -


 * Thats my latest suggestion on the idea, as i still say hubs are broken and wikia is not helping people find relevant wikis easily as the search is horrendous (being polite) as even when you know a wiki exists it does not show up were you would expect, if at all. - BulldozerD11 13:43, May 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Totally agree with all of you. The search on Wikia's main page is very, very bad - it searches for pages, not for the url. For instance, search "Children's Books" and you'd sort of expect to get Children's Books Wiki, wouldn't you? Not a chance! Instead, we get results from Fallout wiki and Wookieepedia, because they've got pages with "book" in the page title. There really should be some sort of "more wikis" button on the top 10 wiki pages, as well. Bethel23 (talk) 15:12, May 25, 2010 (UTC)

And suddenly, the Internet invented... Google! Just type 'whateveryouwanted' site:www.*.wikia.com and problem solved? -- Light Daxter -  Talk  20:26, May 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Although I agree about Google, I also understand it's 'remarkable' to say the least that some wikis are hard to find through the main page, especially (literally) hidden gems such as Children's Books Wiki. I also understand it's near impossible to list all 100.000 'wikis', including all current empty ones, duplicates or overly specific wikis (no offence, just saying), but it would be an improvement to have a search function that lets you search and find wikis by its core subject, for example by user added tags per wiki. --BramTalk/IGW 20:54, May 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Google seems to work okay as a workaround, but that's hardly an excuse for having a homepage that doesn't give you a way to get to the site's content. Powers 21:42, May 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * And i've always wondered how to get a list of blogs on Blogger from it's main page.
 * It's a frequent problem i think. — TulipVorlax 23:27, May 25, 2010 (UTC)