User blog:ArchAngel217/Founding a Wiki

Admin Dashboard
Normally, when you're first starting out, you'll want to check out the Admin Dashboard. Its icon appears at the top of the main page. Its icon looks like a line in the middle of a circle with a crooked line poking out of the top. Decide whether or not you want Message Walls or Talk Pages by toggling Message Walls. You can also toggle User Blogs, Article Comments, Log-in requirements, and the Europa Infobox Theme. There is also an accomplished tasks menu which you can expand with a quick link under it.

Admins
Appoint users that you trust to follow and enforce rules as admins via the Special:UserRights page. It's also a good idea to appoint users with coding experience as admins. Make sure that your admins have made a good number of edits ( at least 100. )

Pages
Outline pages that are vital to the series/animation/video-game/card-game. Notice I said OUTLINE and VITAL. It's fun for users to be able to add to / finish and create pages. If you do all that for them, your wiki is a database, not a database and a community site.