Forum:Freely being able to "Create a Wiki" Debate

It has been a few months now since wikia made it simple to start a wiki. I remember reading the backlash to the idea, and I'll be honest, I didn't care about it much then.

However, lately looking through searching for wikis, its became clear that the feature has created useless new wikis that contain misspelled wiki names, competing wikis and plain utter nonsense.

So where should wikia go from here? What all have we learned? Should rules be added to this feature again? Devilmanozzy 11:03, September 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * I've been randomly watching Special:Contributions/CreateWiki_script and there's like 200 or more a day being made, and there are definitely a lot that are immediately abandoned. I've seen a lot of personal wikis created, thought that was against policy.


 * How quickly can new users create a wiki? and how often (1 a minute, 1per day) any rules on that yet?


 * The other this is the Create wiki page. The already exist list in the Web Address section does not suggest names well at all, for example type "minami" and the first thing should be "minami-ke" but it's not even on the list.  Straight forward letter for letter spelling should be part of the algorithm.  The Name section should also be doing name checks for suggestions.  That might help with dups and misspellings. --Sxerks 20:48, September 11, 2009 (UTC)

Yes I completely agree someone tried to steal my wiki by making their own version of it http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Total_Drama_Island_Fanfiction_Wiki.-- Redflare! Like a blazing sunin a dark universe... 20:58, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * This is what I have been arguing on the Wikia IRC channel for a while now, particularily with the AoE3 Wiki ripping of the original AoE Wiki, and taking needed contributors. I think that Wikia should reinforce the screening process again, for everyones benefits. As it is, power hungry people are creating these wikis so that they can be the admin, and they are terrible admins at that.

Yes I feel rules need to be in place to not make too easy. Wikia wants teamwork to build healthy growing wikis, and while this appears to be a very friendly move, it defeats the whole teamwork spirit. There needs to be rules set in place that better deal with the issue. Suggestions I have:
 * Users need to have signed up to wikia for atleast 14 days before making a wiki.
 * Limit the amount of new wikis per user to one every 14 days.
 * 30 day activity check of a wiki, which is looking for 10 edits or more. If not, delete the wiki.

I think these would give users enough freedom, but would force effort. This would avoid fly by night wikis that show up and have no one editing them. Devilmanozzy 03:42, September 12, 2009 (UTC)

Special:Newwikis may work better then the contrib link --173.88.223.45 06:58, September 12, 2009 (UTC)