Thread:MtaÄ/@comment-5095160-20130513042632/@comment-826221-20130528073832

A lot of IVT work has to do with managing communities/wikis - administrating a certain wiki is a good training for "what lies beyond" :)

Every country did start eventually, we just need to show people that wikia indeed exist.

I agree - I have been working for about 5 years for Wikia now, started back when international languages were still quite small. Over time I learned a lot on how wiki communities grow - and the biggest success factor was (no kidding) having a big wiki about a topic of interest to the public. Several topics turned out to work quite well, including GTA, Naruto, One Piece, Star Wars, Pokémon etc. So the best thing to create a community is to have a few wikis "of interest" and advertise them (e.g. through spotlights).

I just had a look at the stats, and that needs really some improvement. For example, this is the Hebrew Naruto wiki, and compared to other languages it's really hardly visited. If you are going to watch out for spam/vandalism/bad edits, I can put a round of spotlights for Hebrew wikis online and see whether the wikis' traffic grows or not. But let's have the spotlight topic in another wiki. There you can also find out how to translate the interface into Hebrew, which is also an important work the IVT is doing.

And when you write your next message, please let me know what "WIV" means - I tried googling it but haven't been successful in finding out what it means. Looking forward to the next message!