Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35446104-20190122235519/@comment-13206985-20190123143758

I personally got interest in a specific topic and tried to find also rare infos than which was written on many pages already.

Then finding a method to get these infos being shown in an interesting way on e.g. a wiki-page (by adopting an inactive one or by creating a new one, I think?), I was adopting one of e.g. 3 possible wikis, where all of them were inactive since many months.

Also thinking about the language there, if it's your first language or you want to browse for an existing wiki, where the language suits better to you. I could choose between english and german, also mentioned the other inactive wikis to a fitting place, where active and inactive ones got summarized in general.

I was asking to adopt that page, made many useful edits, also browsed how to add specific borders, colours, shadows, etc. in its html-section and made a mix of overview-pages there, but also single pages (to let viewers / users see that the new edits can be seen at the main-page at the top, but also rare infos get added about daily there, like exact date of concerts of that band or also at which hall were they performing, which was the price for attending that concert, etc.)

Also pics, gif's and videos could look interesting for viewers in general. I personally only refer to the original post where to read the details, also pics could actually being found on e.g. "bing", a search-engine like google ...so I don't need a direct-reupload of an existing pic, while even if the pic got removed of that original page, my jpg-file as link could be still found in external search-engines.

For series / episodes or games, there could be sections like facts or also user-theories, stories like fan-fictions or creepypastas.

If you're the admin of a wikia, you can get to a section, where you can see a statistic for the last approx. 7 days, how many viewers were clicking that page in general. My mentioned page is having about 30 viewers, sometimes also about 100 there. Still there were about zero edits by users, just by myself. I also correct typos on these single pages if I found some and mention it in the summary-of-edit too (even marking as a "minor edit" only) and describing what was changing since the last version there.

First there was only paragraphs and mainly only text, titles, etc. now there were colourful borders, added text-shadow, borders will appear with single part of its lines for additional "effects" ...so I think it depends what appearance would your users expect or like to see? Some users probably only want to read more about facts, while others prefer to read exciting stories, some users could be interested in new game's or episode's dates on specific wikis, while newcomers could be also satisfied by reading what happened in first episodes of a serie which is about at the end of its last season?

I personally don't like many pics being mentioned in the picture-section and I would only mention videos if they're referring to big events, etc. so I rarely directly add visual stuff, just more about html-parts and interesting text details.

When browsing though wikis, sometimes also characters could be interesting e.g. if it's about Pokemon, some fans or facts refer to the placement of their inner organs, which (I think?) never be visually seen within games or episodes. Still pics exist and some fans could think these infos sound interesting, while others could be more into fictional theories instead.

So I think that specific information could probably look amazing to you, while other users could think they sound boring. Fan-drawn pics or speed-drawing of some characts could be another way of sharing a more personal way about visual stuff too.

Maybe these thoughts could still sound a bit of helpful, Ironmonger7 and maybe you're excepting a different view of "secrets"? At least these were some of my suggestions which could include stunning details for fans e.g. for stars also worn outfits or accessoirs (as pics or of which specific brand, where to buy similar stuff, etc.) could sound interesting to view that wiki's page. I've also heard about a page, where specific series were summarized and users could add worn brands of specific characters there.

For animation series or movies it could be interesting e.g. which fonts were used in its intro, outro or in which languages or regions could be which limited version able to buy ...which program could get similar transformation-effects (if series relate to e.g. werewolf or other characters) or also links to youtube-videos how to get a similar effect, like tutorial-videos, etc.