Forum:Social networking for 'serious subject' wikia

There used to be a page somewhere about what's coming up or what people connected with wikia are working on, but can't remember how to find it, so don't know if within wikia anything planned to meet what I see as an unmet need or opportunity.

In the past attempts at this via Society Gardens. Beyond wikia sites such as ning seem to have become well used, and some wikia may have experimented with facebook pages, etc?

One of the concerns for serious subject wikia is that by being lumped in with all the popular culture stuff, and to a certain extent feeling submerged by it (front page of wikia long ago seemed to loose any interest in any serious subject wikia) is having to work against inappropriate ads. If ning can offer an option to pay to have these removed don't see why wikia can't move to something like that for the more serious wikia that seem to have a hell of a job attracting new members since the more aggressive advertising came in.

I wondered about starting a ning social networking site for all contributors to the more serious subject wikia, as per Society Gardens, but there may be better alternatives such as grou.ps, mixxt, etc ?

So if one of these were to be started would you if you're a contributor to a serious subject wikia be interested in contributing to a social network and community of this kind? Expressions of interest below? Philralph @ sca21 08:47, 12 May 2009 (UTC)