Community Central talk:Spotlights

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Alien Research Wiki
We don't use the Monaco skin as the default, but if you change to Monobook, you'll see why. We have two hundred content pages - and a bonus - most of them are completely referenced, as in they all have legitimate sources. It deserves to be the spotlight...&mdash;Darthtyler (Talk) 16:43, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi -- alien research looks like a nice wiki. We'll be happy to add you to the list. Incidentally, all wikis are on monaco skin now by default; yours is monaco jade.  Individuals are still welcome to use monobook. -- Wendy  (talk ) 19:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Beejaypogime wiki
Please make a spotlight for beejaypogime wiki. It is at http://www.beejaypogime.wikia.com. We have met all the requirements and has about 1,098+ articles. Thanks. Beejay 07:26, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Honestly the so called thousand pages of content can't really be considered content. 90% of Beejay's wiki is the hosting of scanalations. It's not original content, and on top of that in multiple ways it's completely illegal (copyvio on the count of scanalation, and the distribution of someone else's copyrighted material without the right to do so). It's also a personal wiki which goes completely against Wikia's purpose. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Dec 13, 2008 @ 10:02 (UTC)
 * What's this wiki even about? Why did you upload images directly from mangas? That would discourge people from buying mangas, which shows how much your wiki is disrepecting manga writers. You're hurting the artists. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 03:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi -- I can see you've worked hard on your wiki, but I'm concerned that I don't see you welcoming other contributors, and not all of your pages are categorized. Also you have many of your content pages protected at sysop level, which is not a good thing in terms of building a community to which everyone contributes and edits each others' work, and not the sort of thing we want to spotlight.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 19:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Who Collectors Wiki
I am the founder and admin of the Doctor Who Collectors Wiki and I would like to put it up for a wikia spotlight.
 * We have a welcome template. All new users get a welcome on their talk page.
 * We use the monace skin
 * We have well over 100 content pages (nearly 700)
 * Also, we have very few stub pages
 * We have a logo
 * The main page has a few pictures, and links to the main categories

I think the DWCW really needs a wikia spotlight to get new users. Tardis1963 05:57, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi -- DWCW looks great. I'll add you guys to the list.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 21:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

As the Bell Rings Wiki
I would like to nominate As the Bell Rings Wiki. I am one of the Bureaucrats at the Wiki. I'm pretty sure that we match much of the requirements:

Please consider us for the spotlight :).-- CoolPikachu! (  Talk w/ me ) 05:46, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The wiki has a Welcome template for logged-in users and anonymous-IPs. Every new user or I.P gets a welcome on their talk page.
 * The wiki uses the Monaco skin as the default.
 * The wiki should has at least 100 content pages.
 * The wiki has a logo.
 * The main page of the wiki has one picture, and clear links to the most important content.


 * Hi CoolPikachu. As the Bell Rings Wiki looks like it's in fantastic shape.  I'll add you guys to the list.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 01:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Bleach Wiki

 * We've a logo, but actually no favicon.
 * Pretty large amount of categories.
 * About 331 articles
 * Monaco Skin
 * Main page with Featured articles, most important links, welcome message and current event in the manga/animes + Picture of the featured article
 * Welcome template on almost-all talk pages in recent changes.

Let's talk a little about the Wiki, I'm pretty sure that we match much of the requirements. First, we're, as you understood, a wiki with a pretty large communauty about the Manga/Anime Bleach. There is no real problem at the moment on the wiki ^^. -- Mili-Cien 15:32, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Mili-Cien. Bleach looks like it is growing into a nice wiki.  There are a couple of things you need to do to meet all the requirements.
 * It's important to welcome all of the contributors; you seem to be doing pretty well at this but you miss the odd one here and there.
 * You have 66 uncategorized pages. Can you find a way to put them into categories?
 * Please let me know when you have everything categorized! -- Wendy  (talk ) 19:36, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Bully Wiki
I would like to nominate Bully Wiki. I am one of the Bureaucrats at the Wiki. Bully Wiki is about the video game Bully. I believe the Wiki has met all criteria. Dan the Man 1983 06:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Dan. Bully looks like a good wiki, and it's great to see you welcoming people.  However I notice that you aren't welcoming IPs; please make sure you welcome them as well as logged-in contributors.  If you can do that we'll be happy to put you on the list.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 19:22, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I went through and welcomed IP's that edited there in the past 4 days. I'll be sure to welcome the IP's more in future. Dan the Man 1983 00:09, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Great. -- Wendy  (talk ) 20:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The link to Bully Wiki in the upcoming Wikia spotlight lists is not the right address and does not link to the Wiki.


 * The address linked above is http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:bully, where as the link should be http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:bullygame Dan the Man 1983 22:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Good catch! -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:14, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Left 4 Dead Wiki
The game has been released and we have created many new articles regarding the game. Can this wiki be up for the wikia spotlight? ShadoW 17:36, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * We have better logo.
 * Categories.
 * Approximately 100 articles.
 * Many new users.
 * Customized Monaco skin.
 * The main page was designed well.


 * Hi ShadoW. I can see you are excited about this game, and you've got the wiki looking really good!  However there are a few things you still need to work on before you are spotlighted:


 * 1) You need to have 100 articles (you are at 84)
 * 2) You have a small handful of uncategorized articles that need to be fixed
 * 3) I can't see that you are welcoming any of your new users.  This is an important step in building a community, and should include both logged-in and IP contributors.

I'm sure you can manage all of these things fairly easily. Please ask us again for the spotlight when you do :). -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 19:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Isn't this wiki already in the wikia spotlight??? 04:30, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Club Penguin Fanon
I would like to nominate this wiki. I am the webmaster of the wiki. It wa s founded by Mariothemovie but was abpnded. He came back and made me webmaster. He is currently in his idle period. We received a fair amount of users and now have over 230 pages. We also have a fair enough of sysops. We get most of our users from the Club Penguin wiki.

Please consider us. -- H a pp y f a c e 19:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)


 * As with my response to the Club Penguin request, I would like to see a more calm and stable environment on this wiki before we consider spotlighting it. Your block log is a whirlwind of nonsensical blocks and unblocks based on hurt feelings and friendships that seem to shift daily.  This is not a professional way to run a wiki, and we would like to see all of the CP/CPF community work on being a little more mature, and try solving issues between you with civil warnings and polite discussions, rather than threats and blocks.  Please work on this for at least a month before you apply again for a Spotlight.  — Catherine (talk) 05:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Please give us a second chance. Stupid blocks and deletions are now history. Also, we:
 * Always welcome users;
 * Have a logo and a picture in the main page;
 * Have almost 400 articles;
 * Have a good category structure. All pages are categorized.

As for the Club Penguin Wiki, well, that's a different story. Please consider us once again. <font color="00FF00">Dancing <font color="#FF0000">Penguin http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/6/6c/Smile_spin.gif (Talk!) 22:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * To be honest, I'm not seeing the improvement you describe. There was a 13-year block today for "calling fanon disrespectful", with no attempt whatsoever to talk politely to the user and ask him to change his behavior, or change his mind.  All of the CPF (and CP) admins need to learn to be calmer, to assume good faith and spread WikiLove, and to use blocking only as a last resort and then only as a way to prevent damage to the wiki, not to punish users who disagree with you.   Wikis simply don't work over time if you cannot build a good-natured community of users, who can trust each other not to over-react, either to each other or to "outsiders" who are your next generation of potential editors.  Please make a serious effort to involve all regular editors in improving the wiki's atmosphere, and we can reconsider again in another month.  — Catherine (talk) 04:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

It is also the reason why I quit on Club Penguin Wiki even though it is fun editing there.

- The Pirate  Ahoy! Talk T' Th' Pirate 09:16, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Dead or Alive Wiki
I believe Dead or Alive Wiki has met all the requirements. So, can this wiki be up for wikia spotlight?? And if it does, can I tell the wikia staff to use this image for the wikia spotlight pic?? Squallinoa_08 02:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * We have a logo
 * welcome template
 * monaco skin
 * categories
 * pictures in the main page
 * and of course, 100 articles.
 * Hi -- Dead or Alive looks great. Congrats on reaching 100 articles!  I'll add you to the list.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

UnRuneScape Wiki

 * We currently have over four hundred fully categorised articles.
 * We have links to all main content on the main page.
 * Our Welcome Template is used to welcome all new users.
 * Templates are used to categorise articles needing work, or to make a joke.
 * Pages in large categories have navigational boxes listing the articles.

I would apreciate it if you would consider giving our Wiki a spotlight.-- 14:06, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Pig House. I think UnRuneScape looks like a great wiki to highlight.  There are a few (maybe 10 or so) uncategorized articles which I'm sure you can take care of.  More importantly, could you make sure a spotlight is ok with your active admins and let me know where they said so?  Then I'd be happy to add you guys to the spotlight list.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 19:50, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * You guys should be all set. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:47, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Bloc Spiral Français
Is this also for the French ones? It would be useful to add the wiki to the French spotlights, beacause it's like scratchpad, only in French. (Like the advertising for creating a new wiki) Marta Ägnös (Talk, MUM, LC, DT, Wikia) 19:41, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way, can one of you add the interwiki links? Thanks. Marta Ägnös (Talk, MUM, LC, DT, Wikia) 19:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi -- Bloc Spiral looks brand new -- you only have one article. I think it's a great idea to have a scratchpad in French, but you need to build some content before we spotlight you.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 00:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added interlanguage links from French to the other versions but it may take a few days until they start working due to caching. Angela (talk) 00:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

VexiWiki
VexiWiki, the flag and vexillology wiki from Wikia, meets all the requirements, and I'd like to have it spotlighted.


 * Our welcome template is used to welcome all new members of VexiWiki, including anonymous IPs.
 * The default skin for VexiWiki is the Monaco skin. We've even added a page about the flag of Monaco in honor. Heheh.
 * VexiWiki has 326 articles, and 89 of those are stubs, making the total number of non-stub articles 237.
 * We've got a logo that works with every available skin.
 * Our main page was designed very well; it's simple, and links to the good stuff.
 * All articles are categorized as neatly as possible, in a geographically-organized category system.

So can we have the spotlight please? :-) --FlagFreak 15:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * VexiWiki looks great -- I'll add you to the list. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 00:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Do we have to provide the Wikia Spotlight logo, or will the Wikia staff make it? --FlagFreak 23:51, 3 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi -- the staff creates the spotlights. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 19:34, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks. Please see that they show that VexiWiki is a flag wikia, because many people don't know what vexillography is. ;-) --FlagFreak 19:38, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Dead or Alive Wiki
Hello, I'm Squallinoa_08 from the DOA wikia site. I know that I don't have 100 articles, but I was hoping that I can let the DOA site be listed for the wikia spotlight. I have the monocoskin as my default, I categorized all my articles, I have a welcome template, a logo, and a nice main page. I know I didn't follow the 100 articles criteria, but in order for me to do so, I need more users! There's only 2 sysops, me and this other user who is inactive at the moment. So could you help me? Let me know on my DOA talk page (the link to the right) Thank you! Squallinoa_08
 * Hi -- I know it seems like a lot of work, but we really need the wiki to have 100 pages before we can spotlight it. You guys are doing a really nice job on DOA, and I'm sure you'll get there.  Meanwhile, if you know of any fan forums or other sites for DOA, definitely go tell people there about your wiki!  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Bandipedia (Formerley know as Crash Bandicoot Wiki)
Hi, Bandipedia is a wiki about the Crash Bandicoot game series. I started editing there on November 2 2007, at which it was abandoned and only had about 80 articles. I attached a link to the Wikipedia article to get more hits. After 3 weeks or so, I gave up on editing because no-one had came. I went back in May this year and I discovered the wiki had 160 articles, another user had been looking after it until May, when I discovered that another user had been looking after it from December-1 April, since he stopped editing the wiki had became infested with vanadals. In June, I adopted the wiki. Now, the Wiki has over 250 articles and has a healthy number of contributors. The wiki is becoming pretty large now, and is in a pretty good condition. <font face="Impact" color="5F9EA0">YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 17:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Yowuza. There are a couple of things that Bandipedia needs in order to meet the spotlight criteria:
 * You have 79 uncategorized articles; they all need to be categorized.
 * You also have occasional unwelcomed contributors in your recent changes; some of them are vandals, and that's ok, but some are not, and should be welcomed.
 * Let me know when you find categories for all the pages and have welcomed everybody! -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:30, 24 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you guys got everything taken care of, and I've added you to the list. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 20:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Club Penguin Wiki
Club Penguin Wiki is a community wiki about the well-known online virtual world Club Penguin. We are currently editing over 320 articles and counting. We currently only have a few main users, and would love it if we were in the wikia spotlight as that would attract more users, and more users means more articles! We have had an ongoing debate about how to get more users for weeks now, and someone said something about the wikia spotlight. Perfect! Please put us in the wikia spotlight! Club Penguin Wiki.
 * Thanks for your time. Sincierly -- Pingu Penguin Oh Just Say It!  17:36, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. According to your site notice, you've been having a bit of a crisis at Club Penguin recently; generally we'd like the wiki to be a stable harmonious place before we put it into the spotlight, so that new visitors want to stay.  So please wait until things calm down a little to ask for a spot.  At that point, we need one of your admins to make the request, or some evidence that it has been discussed with the admins.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, that was a month ago! New users have joined since that crisis! And Barkjon (the webmaster of Club Penguin Wiki) made that request six months ago. (see it here). Please put us on the spotlight! -- Dancing Penguin, a sysop on the Club Penguin Wiki.

Dancing Penguin, we use spotlights to invite users to join growing wikis that show the best of what a wiki can be. I'm sorry, but your wiki has shown itself to be rather unfriendly to newcomers, with ongoing rounds of bickering and crisis, frequent bans and threats to leave from prominent members, strict and unusual laws, and the sense that all of the regular users are a clique of friends from the same school. Until you are willing to make some serious changes to improve the wiki's atmosphere, we must decline your request at this time. — Catherine (talk) 05:36, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I understand your point. <font color="00FF00">Dancing <font color="#FF0000">Penguin http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/6/6c/Smile_spin.gif (Talk!) 22:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Tron Wiki
I'd like to nominate Tron Wiki. We recently finished our 100th article and will continue to add more, especially when TR2N, the long-awaited sequel to the original movie will be released in the near future.

Thank you very much!

--Mr. Sinistar 23:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. Tron Wiki looks really nice -- congratulations on reaching 100 articles!  I see two things that need to be worked on, per the Guidelines before I can put you on the spotlight list:
 * 1) You have 40+ uncategorized articles (you can see them at Special:UncategorizedPages). Could you please find a spot for them.
 * 2) You have a couple of unwelcomed anonymous users in your recent changes who should be welcomed if they weren't vandals.
 * Let me know when you get them taken care of and we'll add you to the list! -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Great job fixing those! I'll add you to the list. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 15:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Wendy! Thanks for responding so quickly!  I categorized the rest of the articles and welcomed all of the anonymous users.  I hope you can add us to the list really soon!  Once again, thanks a lot! --Mr. Sinistar 16:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Hardy Boys
I'd like to nominate The Hardy Boys Wiki for the Wikia Spotlight. We currently have over 380 articles (145 of which are in stubs in theArticle stubs category), and with the upcoming release of the first Hardy Boys video game, The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft we hope to have more articles soon. I think we meet most, if not all the criteria, but if not please tell me what we need to improve upon. By the way, this has been mentioned to the comunity at Forum:Spotlight.

WHLfan (talk to me!) 02:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi -- the Hardy Boys Wiki looks good. I'll add you to the list. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 18:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to use more then one logo, would that be all right?

This will be one of them:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/hardyboys/images//d/d6/Spotlight_logo_02.png

The other one hasn't been decided yet, but it's being voted on here.

Also, I made a logo that will appear to users using Monobook.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/hardyboys/images//9/98/Spotlight_monobook_01.png

WHLfan (talk to me!) 20:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Literature
Please consider spotlighting Literawiki. It has over 750 articles and several regular contributors who have been working hard to meet the spotlight criteria. The articles cover books from a variety of genres, authors, literary devices and contributor's reviews. -- CocoaZen 01:07, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi CocoaZen. Literawiki looks great -- I'll add you to the list!  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 18:20, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

America's Best Dance Crew
Hello. I know that the ABDC wikia site was created few days ago, I really everyone to know about it because there isn't alot of members. I even got the made. What can I do to to put my site into the wikia spotlight faster? Squallinoa 08


 * Check out the criteria. When you can meet all of them you can ask for a spotlight.  One big thing is that you need 100 content pages.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 15:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Weedee - About People and Companies
Weedee is a collaborative platform showcasing the people and companies that make up the social fabric of the world. We stretched the concept of a wiki to cover even more ground and be more useful for our users. We have around 18,000 entries made in the site. We are in beta mode, but would love to get feedback and some spotlight. 


 * Hi. I'm sorry, but to get a spotlight the wiki has to be on wikia.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:51, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * :( -- <font color="Blue">David  8 October 2008

A current spotlight
Does the Kevin Smith wiki really have to use the "zack and miri make a porno" promo image? That's not really friendly to all audiences. --<font color="Green">LordTBT <font color="Green" size="2">Talk! 07:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It doesn't sound appropriate. I don't know what its about but since it used that word, I'm not going on at all. -- <font color="Green">JackSkellingtonfreak24 (PF24) ( <font color="Pink">Talk to me ) 03:27, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this not going to addressed? Is "make a porno" language that is considered appropriate on wikis that are supposed to be family-friendly? --<font color="Green">LordTBT <font color="Green" size="2">Talk! 03:33, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been wondering about this, too. WHLfan (talk to me!) 05:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Still no response... --<font color="Green">LordTBT <font color="Green" size="2">Talk! 22:22, 10 November 2008 (UTC)