Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200423160701/@comment-9605025-20200426062345

reply to #33 BowiQC wrote: Honestly, my main issue with Fandom/UCP, as a Gamepedia editor, is the lack of a central hub (sorry if it's redundant... English isn't my first language...) for communication and announcements like the Admin Noticeboard and the Community Portal that are available with Gamepedia.

[...] Is this actually a standard thing for Gamepedia? I checked out a few Gamepedia wikis and it looks like there are definitely some that don't have these. Even among the ones that do, they layouts vary quite a bit. This leads me to believe that this is not a feature so much as just a convention adopted by the larger Gamepedia community. As far as I can tell, these pages you mention are nothing more than standard project-namespace pages. Since the project namespace is a part of MediaWiki, Fandom wikis also have this. However, it is up to each wiki to decide how to use it. BowiQC wrote: [...]

EDIT: Please, don't forget to nurture "leadership" and "democracy" while you're busy implementing/migrating forums/blogs/comments/etc. I honestly think that Reddit and Discord are made for that and should live next to wikis, not as an half-baked feature. Are you implying that Gamepedia wikis are inherently more democratic that Fandom wikis? Are you saying Fandom wikis lack leadership? I would really like to hear you make your case for this.

You can think what you want about keeping Reddit and Discord separate from the wiki. However, there are a lot of Fandom users who would disagree with you. Personally, I think it is more convenient to have it all in one place rather than having 3 accounts on 3 platforms to interact with 1 community. - Edit:

Also, starting March 11, all new Fandom wikis are created using UCP wikis. So there should be plenty of them up by now. You could probably just pick off of Special:Newwikis to find more examples.