Webinars

Wikia Webinars are monthly presentations provided by the Community Support team to provide live educational sessions that include best practices, pro tips, and introductions to new features. Webinars are open to any and all Wikians, so register today!

Upcoming Webinars

 * May 16th, 4pm PDT (11pm UTC): Wiki Management & Policies Register
 * Wikis are a social place - one where you work together to create content on the topic you love. This leads to an amazing resource anyone can visit or participate in. It also means that people have to work together, which can lead to different opinions, decisions and, at times, conflict. How a wiki deals with this can make or break a community. This webinar will overview how to manage a community, how to create policies to help your community work together, and how to handle conflict if it occurs. Join us to learn from Wikia Staff and fellow Wikians.


 * June 28th, 4pm PDT (11pm UTC): Online Privacy Overview Register
 * Despite the evidence to the contrary, there is such a thing as internet privacy. Online communities like Wikia wikis are subject to a host of federal and state laws designed to protect user privacy. From COPPA to CISPA, new privacy legislation is always a hotly debated issue.How do you protect your own privacy online and make sure your community is doing everything it can to protect the privacy of others? And where do things like Privacy Policies and Terms of Use come in to play? This webinar will look at privacy on Wikia, how to make sure your communities are navigating online privacy issues safely, and give an overview on the larger issues affecting privacy in the online world.

Wikia Features
Videos on Your Wiki Aired December 14, 2012

The session overviews embedding a video in a page, as well as the Related Videos Module and Special:Videos features. We discuss the content you can find on our, as well as a sneak peek at what you will see on Wikia in 2013.

Best Practices for Structuring your Wiki Aired April 20, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of how to set up a good framework for categories, namespaces and navigation so that it is easy for users to find relevant content and helps editors say organized.

Admin Tools Aired October 4, 2011

This webinar provides an overview of the admin dashboard, including a tour of special pages, review of wiki features and other admin only tools.

Wikia Mobile Apps &amp; Skin Aired April 5, 2013 Mobile devices are becoming more and more a major way of how the world views your wiki. But is your wiki optimized to look good on a mobile device? This webinar overviews Wikia's unique mobile apps (Game Guides and My Wikia) as well as now to modify your wiki to look and function better on a mobile device.

Deep Dive
Wikia Copyright Aired January 24, 2013

This webinar overviews the basics of Copyright law, provides details on how copyright applies to your contributions on Wikia, how the CC-BY-SA license works, and offers best practices for adding content and images to your wiki.

Advanced Customizations Aired March 22, 2013

This webinar overviews how to take the next step beyond the theme designer and customize your wiki using Mediawiki messages and custom CSS.

SEO Tips &amp; Tricks Aired May 9, 2012

This webinar provides an introduction to SEO - Search Engine Optimization. It details how you can make specific changes to your wiki to help improve your wiki's search rank. Search results are a major driver of wiki's traffic, and this webinar overviews what Wikia does in the background to help as well as what you can do on your wiki to improve your SEO.

Main Pages Aired October 19, 2012

This webinar overviews how to design your main page using the appropriate tags, tips now to keep your main page up to date, and overall design best practices. The video also offers a how to on improving your main page's SEO as well as how to integrate social media sites into your main page.

Templates Overview Aired April 26, 2013

This webinar provides a detailed instruction on embedding and customizing templates, with a specific look at infoboxes. Watch this recording to learn how to adjust a template to match your wiki's content and design.

Creative Commons Review Aired March 16, 2012

This webinar overview's the Creative CommonsLicense used by Wikia, what is states, how its applied and covers the basics you should be aware of as a wiki contributor.

Intro to CSS Aired August 3, 2012

This webinar provides an introduction to using CSS on your wiki. The basic elements, where to apply them.

Community Management Tips
Community Discussions Aired November 16, 2012

This webinar provides advice on how to start and manage positive community discussions and decision making conversations on your wiki. It covers how to develop policies, guidelines and compromise. It also covers the tools you can use for conversations, includes Message Wall and Talk pages, Chat and Forums.

Community Guidelines Aired September 14, 2012

This webinar focuses on building and updating community guidelines on your wiki. We overview what to work towards, what to avoid and provide examples of good guidelines found throughout Wikia.

Wiki Management Tools Aired June 8, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of the tools Admins and community members can you to help manage their wiki. In this webinar we will walk you through how to use recent changes, page history and logs as well as tour Special Pages. We will explain in detail all aspects of these pages and offer advice on best practices for using them to help manage your wiki.

Handling Conflict Aired January 13, 2012

This webinar provides a advice how to handle conflict on your wiki. Whenever a group of people work together, there is bound to be some disagreements. This webinar will provide tips on how to handle these types of situations and where to find help.

Design &amp; Promotion Tips Aired December 2, 2011

This webinar provides advice on how to make a great wiki design using the Theme designer tool, with tips on what to work towards and what to avoid. We also review how to promote your wiki on social media sites, set up affiliates and grow your wiki community

Social Media &amp; Your Wiki Aired February 15, 2013

This webinar provides tips on using Social Media to promote and grow your wiki community. Listen to hear how to get started, best practices and advice from successful wiki admins.