Forum:Yet to be named Community Wiki Idea

I've been planning for several years now to get around to codeing a php based site which would be a hub of sorts where people could design their pages, link to all their favorite sites and people and meet other people. Just last night it struck me that it would work even better of i used Mediawiki to do so. Namely because the majority of security concerns would be removed and the Mediawiki Syntex is very flexible allowing for very unique pages. IMO this would be a perfect thing for Wikia to host mostly because it could be a more user oriented hub as opposed to the central wiki which is more or less Wikia's most important wiki. I've already began coding templates for userpages and such which would be very customizable for those without very advanced wiki skills. I did check through Wikia's rules for creating a wiki yet again (I'm also Founder of the Star Wars Combine wiki) and not only is this not a personnel wiki but it's got one of the largest userbases of any wiki i could think of since it'd be useful to just about everyone in the world.

So far i have just about everything sorted out besides a name which is why I haven't submitted a request yet. I've thought "Cornerstone" might be a good name but again I'd like some suggestions/input. WillSWC 06:22, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * have you thought about helping out at Wikisocial at the moment it's pretty much dead but thats just because we havn't gotten a critical mass of users yet. Any ideas for improvements would be appreciated.


 * --Drawde83 08:37, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like it's gone pretty much totally dead. The Founder's been inactive since February 2007. I'd be happy to take it over and overhaul it. WillSWC 08:43, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Promotion Ideas
yep I'd be happy to support you with that. I've had a few thoughts on how to promote it.
 * 1) It would be great if it could be a collaboration of the month or a featured wikia.
 * 2) try and get in contact with the smaller wikis. They need to get lots of interested users too.
 * 3) go for the bigger ones which have their own social scene already,they already have userboxes and people who know how to make more.

Support
I support this proposal, though are there more ideas as to specifically how it might encourage people to interact?

One idea I've been thinking about for sca21 is a sort of community page with the same sort of look as Community Team here. Ideally there'd be some sort of (easily set up, easily customizable) personal 'card' that people could (easily) slot into similar community pages on not only a central community wiki but also any wikia they contribute to (Eg I contribute to about half a dozen). Options maybe to include a series of small icons e g the small icon thingy that goes in tabs on browsers - forgotten what it's called - to provide quick links? Philralph 09:56, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Prelim example at sca21:Sustainable Community Action:Community and networking Philralph 15:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I like your thinking Philralph. I'm adding a Forum to the current WikiSocial Shell and once I do that we can take these ideas there. Until then we can toss em here.

I've just thought of an idea...something along the lines of a card game or sorts...Normally it wouldn't have anything to do with a wiki but with this totally new style of wiki it actually may work in great...Let me get the forum online and we can take it into more depth. WillSWC 10:06, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Forum's online. http://social.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Lounge  Will SWC  11:15, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * If you can run card games on a Wikia, the best place for them ought to be the existing [w:c:games|Games Wikia], which runs nearly twenty games already. I suppose I'd better make myself a page on WikiSocial and try to get that message across to all the active members (who appear to be numerous, led by WillSWC). Robin Patterson 12:16, 10 August 2007 (UTC)