Forum:Italian main page

The Italian main page (Pagina principale) is a mess. There are many Italian language wikias (464 according to this category) and the community is still growing. The problem is there is no coordination nor maintenance. It presents text in English and it's all about English language wikias. If you click on any of the highlighted wikias (Wikia evidenziate) the link will directly send you to the English version of that wikia.

There are Italian wikias like StregheTV, Inuyasha Italia, DN-Death note that should be respectly added to the Charmed, InuYasha and Death Note pages and so on.

The Italian main page should be a place for showing the best Italian language wikias, not about English language wikias. Italian users would never created an account for English wikias. I would like to help to keep up the main page (since I'm Italian) but I don't really know where to start. Are there rules about the creation or maintanance of the main page? Can I edit it? Should I contact directly the staff? I know there is a "Italian language wikias rank" system, since it's updated by the co-founder every month, and it would be a good start.

Just the fact that there are O link to any Italian wikias on the Italian main page should make the point. Any suggestion about it? How can I really help? Is there a supervisor-like position to manage every different language section on Wikia?

Thanks, -- EXE.  eseguibile 18:38, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * We have a Italian Central Wikia located at here. That's the place where you would put the links to all Italian wikis and etc. I am not sure about the Italian main page (Pagina principale) on English Central Wikia.-- BlueDevil Talk 19:39, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * So what's the point of having two pages? The only one that appears on google is Pagina principale. And the one you just linked it even worse. Everybody can just edit the main page or are there rules to follow? -- EXE.  eseguibile 19:47, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The Italian Central Wikia has 5 pages, including a spam page against our PM. There are not Italian speaking admins (as far as I know). There is not even a category to group up all the Italian language wikias. Do I have to talk to with the staff about this? I don't see other option to resolve this situation. -- EXE.  eseguibile 20:01, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think Pagina principale is just the translate version of main page for English Central Wikia.
 * The founder of Italian Central wikia Utente:BanjoTooie didn't do much on that wiki. You may go and construct Italian Central Wikia's main page, translate page from Engish Central Wikia, and build your own Italian Community there.-- BlueDevil  Talk 20:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * And I agree. But what if I want to delete the spam page? I have to call an admin from the English version or contact the staff everytime? Wouldn't be easier to form a small group of willing users with admin powers to manage the Italian Central Wikia first? -- EXE.  eseguibile 20:12, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Go and make some edits first. You haven't done any contributions. Don't worry about the spam right now. let me know which page is spam I'll delete it for you. I can give you admin right, but don't see any reason to do that right now.-- BlueDevil Talk 20:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Spam page right here. Don't take me wrong, but willingness should be way enough. Thanks for your help! -- EXE.  eseguibile 20:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But credibility is another important thing, and sysops/administrator flags should and will not be given that easily in any wiki, by doing various edits in an already existing wiki you prove that your willingness is true and not just puff of smoke that will banish in a couple of days/weeks, also it shows how you may handle the different issues. About spam and vandalize pages thats easy as blanking the page and/or tagging them with a category/template for deletion, if the name of the page is offensive you can request an intermediate deletion like you just did in your last comment. --
 * I don't argue with that, of course. I manage two wikis and I never had problems with anyone so far. My point is, even if I wanna help out, there is no page or tutorial or anything about creating a Central Wikia for a language. It won't be able to manage the Italian Central Wikia with user rights. And I won't go far by copying other Central Wikis in other languages. Wikia in general lack of maintenance. The subversions in other languages, such as the Italian one, barely exists. You would convey with me that I can't do everything alone, especially when I don't know where do start. -- EXE.  eseguibile 21:51, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The first thing to do is a template that show some king of infobox to present each wikis.
 * The second thing is a good main page that present each categories of wikis.
 * The infobox should present the logo of the wiki (with customizable background color as not all logos will look good on white), tell who is the founder, at wich date it was started, how many pages it has, the statute of the wiki (starting, active, inactive, etc.) and give a link to it.
 * You can see an exemple on the french central wikia : fr:Guild wars. — TulipVorlax 22:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * TulipVorlax: He is trying to create or manage an Italian copy of Central Wikia.
 * EXE.: There is no manual on how to translate a wiki, and central wiki aside from showing what wikis exists it has the rules and forums, as i have seen the pages where it states what wikis exists related to something are superfluous to translate as now the autocreate bot scrip does it so its almost impossible to keep up with that... so i recommend you to focus on A)Main page, B)Critical wikia pages like rules, TOS, etc that wikia applies to all wikis. C)Forums so you give support or translate the wikia news that are post at the EN central wikia forum. --