Forum:Too many central wikias

The users who give their feedback at the request wikia, are the same who check the central wikia to see what's new and give their feedback. They are also the same potential users to give feedback to wikis as the newly created inside wikia.

So you have at least three different sites (there might be a couple more I may have missed) aimed at the same limited potential public. I'm sure you can see the obvious dissadvantages. You can't expect many regulars to check all three of them.

I understund the new inside wikia needs to be a separated site if you are going to test there the features being worked on. And altough I can see some advantages of having the request wiki departed from the central wikia, if community feedback (from the alredy existing wikia community) for the requests is what you are looking for, it might not be the best way to achieve it.

In short, IMHO you shouldn't start more wikis for cross-wikia related issues, keep it all at this single central wikia. And merge as far as possible the alredy existing several ones.--Rataube 16:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd say that the model of keeping them separate does define what they are about. Central organizes all the wiki, helping to list and direct people around, much like a big directory of everything. Requests is centered around requesting new Wikia, anyone interested in that can pay attention to it there, also the fact that it's there and not here makes creating that stuff easier because of the interface. And inside is about new features, and more technical things which the users who admin Wikia wiki and the more advanced users would pay attention to. So I don't agree that they should be merged together. However, what I do think could be improved is linking. The wikia sidebar should contain a link to central, requests, and inside. Also the central Main Page should have 2 big links to requests and to inside to attract people there. Plus it would be good to get some of the discussions around here to continue in the new phpBB/MW forums at inside to get the word out about it and get people to pay attention to things there to. P.S: If you do it right it doesn't take much to flip through a few recentchanges and forum indexes. ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 6, 2007 @ 19:22 (UTC)
 * It's easy for you couse you have a great involment with wikia, but you can't expect the same for the average wikian. You are really used to work with a bunch of wikis at the same time, however, most wikians are used to work within the frame of a single wiki or a maybe a couple, a handful at most. You could make a section and a namespace for the requests and it would be just as clear as the current separated wiki. I know I would make comments on the requests wiki more often if I didn't have to take the trouble to go trough yet another wiki (eventhough I consider myself to be highly involved with wikia too), and I beileve I'm not alone in this. This reminds me of a disscusion we had at uncyclopedia. Some users suggested we made the very well developed and flourishing unnews section into a different wiki. We didn't do it, becouse too many people wouldn't contribute there (or at least not as frequently), they just wouldn't bother themselves if it was even just a little less accesible (and by little less accesible I also mean propper linking between two sites, instead of one single site containing it all). I believe the same applies here.--Rataube 21:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Just to confuse things more, here are 3 restricted editing wikis that are offshoots of central:


 * http://starter.wikia.com - New pages included into newly created (english) Wikia.
 * http://notreal.wikia.com - the 404 Wikia.
 * http://wikia-inc.com - corporate site.
 * There is also images.wikia.com (not a wiki, just a server) and there may soon be a sort of shared style, image and transcludable template repository semi-soon. This is when SiteMatrix will be handy. --Splarka (talk) 07:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)