Forum:Links on the home page

I'm thinking of developing a policy on what ought to be on the home page. At the moment, it's quite an odd mixture of wikis since staff and users are all adding different links for various reasons. I'd like your feedback on a few points:
 * Should the home page be "family friendly" and not have adult topics there (I've just removed the Spanking Art wiki after someone suggested this ought to be the case).
 * Should the same wikis be linked all the time, or should be use rotation?
 * Should we be directing people to more than one home page? For example, having a sci-fi home page which highlights the sci-fi wikis instead of trying to highlight everything on the one home page.
 * Which wikis (think broad categories, not particular sites) do you think should be on the home page? eg - any that have been featured / any with 1000 pages / any with 50 users... etc. What criteria would you use?

Angela talk 02:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think we should make it a point that Wikia does not allow any discrimination of wikis (such as sexuality related wikis) in the name of "family friendliness". Wikia hosts wikis on all kinds of topics, including adult topics. If we censor sexuality wikis today, we may find ourselves censor politics wikis tomorrow and religion wikis the day after. The purpose of the "Wikia Highlights" section on the Wikia home page, as I see it, is to provide a brief overview of Wikia's biggest, most popular and best-known wikis. A selection is necessary because Wikia hosts thousands of wikis. For reasons of fairness and transparency, this selection should be based on objective measurable criteria such as:
 * wiki size (# of articles, database size, or similar)
 * wiki popularity (page visits per day/week/month. These statistics are currently disabled but I have been told we may get them back sometime in future by evaluating the Squid logs)
 * I'd like to emphasize the importance of the popularity factor because my wiki (Spanking Art) is a typical example of a wiki that is only medium sized (just over 1,000 articles) but seems to be very high in daily page requests. The figures that show this are here (#6 as of August 12 2005) and here (#23, evaluation period unknown).
 * I personally think the number of active users should not be a factor because it says nothing about the size or popularity of a wiki. A rotation system is not a bad idea, but we can discuss this after we've established criteria for the selection. We might come up with something like: the top 20 wikis are always listed, the wikis on place 21 to, say, 200 are rotated monthly. --Spankart 12:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)