Help talk:Custom namespaces

Wikia versus wiki
It is infuriating to see something like this on a Wikia help page: "every Wikia has 18 namespaces". Surely it should be "every wiki has 18 namespaces". I seem to spend half my life repeating the difference between Wikia and a wiki, which is that a wiki is a site that anyone can edit (including Wikipedia and about a million other websites all over the world), and Wikia is the name of a company that hosts wikis. I know the company name "Wikia" is deceptively similar to the word "wiki", which is probably the main reason why this confusion has propagated. But I think it is important that the two are distinguished from each other unambiguously in Help documentation. Signatures/Leevclarke 15:43, November 15, 2009 (UTC)


 * Signature doesn't work properly here, so I will provide a link to my talk page for reference. ;-)  Signatures/Leevclarke 15:44, November 15, 2009 (UTC)


 * ! I agree. However, the co-founder of Wikia disagrees, and she is where all this "wikia = wiki" stuff came from. Wikia was formerly called Wikicities and each of its wikis was deemed a wikicity, so you can kind of see how after being renamed to Wikia that this occurred. I also agree that we should stay consistent with 'wiki' in help documentation to ensure nobody gets confused. But that'll be another day. Joey (talk) 07:37, November 16, 2009 (UTC)