Forum:Idea: Move fields on Create Wiki page

Hello, I'm Elecbullet of the Wolfenstein Wiki.

I'm looking at a lot of foreign-language wikis, and I'm noticing a pattern. Always, when I stumble across a wiki in another language, it's always in a similar format to this:
 * pl.wolfensteinpl.wikia.com (since moved to new URL)
 * http://ru.doomrus.wikia.com
 * http://fi.thesimsfin.wikia.com
 * http://ko.rtcwkor.wikia.com

Always a portion of the language name in the URL. Ideally, each one would just have the name of the subject (pl.wolfenstein.wikia.com, ru.doom.wikia.com, fi.thesims.wikia.com, ko.rtcw.wikia.com) but instead they revert to a more confusing format.

Why
I know exactly why this is. On the "create a wiki" page, the field for "Give your wiki an address" comes before the field for choosing a language.

Say you're going to make a Russian wiki for Wolfenstein. Name it and give its url as wolfenstein.wikia.com. You get an error message, because there already is a wolfenstein.wikia.com (in English), so naturally, you change your URL. Then you define your language. But, if you'd defined your language FIRST, you wouldn't have to change the URL, because ru.wolfenstein.wikia.com is perfectly available!

Proposal
I propose Wikia should move the fields on that page into the following order:
 * 1) Name your wiki
 * 2) Choose a language
 * 3) Give your wiki a URL

That way, we can avoid always-incongruous foreign language URLs. As someone who can attest to the difficulty in finding the foreign-language equivalents of his wiki, I think this would solve a lot of problems. Does anyone agree? Elecbullet (talk) 09:02, October 16, 2012 (UTC)