Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5218827-20191127222756/@comment-5218827-20191202132706

Tupka217 wrote: My second reply wasn't to you.

Star Trek has Memory Alpha. Star Wars has Wookieepedia. Fallout has Nukipedia. Spongebob has Encyclopedia Spongebobia. Most of these wikis are over 10 years old and have a well established name recognition by now. It doesn't mean it will work for everyone. As you said, they required time. They were founded under those names and built up a reputation. But that was not your point. Your point was that people would not look up "Gearipedia" (a corny name which I despise; will definitely think of something else) because they were used to the previous name. I am thinking about the Wiki long term. This year it would be unknown, there's no doubt about that, but a year from now? 5? 10?

Of course it won't work for everyone. But you can't presume until the idea's been given a chance at the very least. And if it's unsuccessful, then I'd concede. To me, there are a few events that would necessitate splitting up the Wikis. But those events are so unlikely at this moment in time I doubt they'd ever happen.

BBC have threatened to cancel Top Gear three times in the last 4 years, the most recent being this year as was revealed by Chris Harris after the apparent success of its most recent outing. Not saying it'll happen, but in the event Top Gear were to be canceled, then that would be two dead/near-dead wikis as opposed to a slow one with a manageably low influx of fresh content.

RealKnockout wrote: Dude, you idea is good, but it needs more depth. Get others to help u.

I know I need help, the problem is, there just doesn't seem to be people willing to help anymore. There would've been had I joined a few years ago, but it just seems to me that people prefer to consume and make comment rather than document. At least there's a few people that are helping out as opposed to no-one.

KevinVolkov wrote: Link to Merging Communities

It's good you're the bureaucrat of both; if you're the only bureaucrat, I'd just work on putting all content from one onto the other and asking Fandom to merge, and - if not - work on getting explicit consent from the other beaurcrats and following instructions on that article. Being the bureaucrat on both was one of the main reasons for starting this thread up, since I see little point of keeping them separate. Were I to go ahead, it'd take several weeks before the transition would be complete, but I need to convene with a couple other people first and to see if there any bots which do mass renames (i.e. Series 1 -> Series 1 (Top Gear 2002)).

Once the preparations were put in place, it would be ready to go, more or less.