Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33594813-20180714075047/@comment-26478829-20180714111333

Good guidelines, but not all of them always apply, especially the coloring one. The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic wiki used the basic blue banner, white content space theme for the first 8 years of its existence and remains one of the most popular wikis to this day.

I think consistent and most of all, readable coloring and design is far more important that colorful design. A good tip for consistent coloring is to design your wiki with a small amount of colors, like 3-5. That way you can make a theme that's unique while also not having it look like someone vomited all the colors up.

Also, another big tip is not be overbearing to new users. Striking the balance between 'letting everything go through' and 'only allow edits that follow your MoS to a T' is tough but is something every admin should learn.

Another thing Wiki founders might want to set up is a coverage/notability policy to determine what gets articles or not. The system should be based around the scope o the franchise you set the wiki up for (assuming it's a fiction wiki). If it's a wiki for a great big universe, then a very lenient policy like the one on Wookiepedia or TARDIS could be implemented. Some wikis have other interesting policies. Lostpedia features articles dedicated to theories, The Peanuts wiki has articles based off real life landmarks that bear Peanuts imagery, etc.

Biggest tip of all is to realize that rules are not set in stone. If the community agrees that a rule or policy should be changed, then it might have to be changed.