Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-1330470-20140301175147

There is a "Create a wiki!" button on every page on Wikia. I suppose that's to be expected, but the existing CreateNewWiki page does nothing to encourage users congregate at existing wikis rather than make their own.

I do think that a policy explicitly against duplicates is not for the best (as some wikis have proper uses for duplicates, I think harrypotter has affiliates that just wanted to do it differently). However, I think that when there's a: And many many many more, all covering Spongebob Squarepants... You see this is the very beginning of a chronological list (I could not be bothered to post any more), and as time went on, people creating new Spongebob wikis must have seen that so many Spongebob-related URLs were taken... And not once does it pop into their head "Hm, maybe there's already a zillion wikis on this subject, maybe I'll just join one!" And inevitably when their wikis don't get off the ground they'll wonder why.
 * spongebob
 * spongepedia
 * spongebobs
 * spongebobpedia
 * spongebobtv
 * sbongebobandpatrick
 * spongebobfan
 * spongebobcentral
 * spongeopedia
 * spongebobwikipants
 * squarepantsspongebob
 * nickspongebob
 * spongesquarepants
 * thespongebobshow
 * spongebobshow
 * patrickseastar
 * spongesquare
 * spongebobsquarepantsst
 * spongestar3
 * weluvspongebob
 * spongeinfo
 * spongebobshows
 * spongebobsquarepantsbest
 * bikini-bottom
 * happysqaured
 * sbobspants
 * spongebobsquarepantspatrickstar

I think that CreateNewWiki should emphasize more how users should join existing wikis rather than necessarily create their own.