User blog comment:Trellar/A new way to promote your wiki/@comment-188432-20120830231633

Just outta curiosity, doesn't this feature mean that the odds of your wiki being featured have, of necessity, gone down? Or, assuming you weren't featured at wikia.com already, doesn't it mean that your chances of being displayed haven't gone up by that much? I mean, I just tried it 50 times, and I never saw w:c:tardis come up once. It used to be much more frequent than that.

Might we not want to weight the chances of appearing on the page based upon some reasonable metric like size of wiki or currency of topics covered? I mean, let's say there are 20 boxes in which wikis could be featured. Might it not make some sense to reserve 5 for the bigger wikis and leave the 15 for the smaller ones? That way we're guaranteed of promoting some of the more mature wikis while also giving the smaller wikis the bulk of the screen real estate?

Some of the "rolls" I made produced only small wikis. That's good for their promotion, but if a new user were presented with only wikis of <100 articles, they might take that as representative of Wikia wikis — which they arguably aren't.

Another possible metric might be currency of topic. Surely some number of the available spots need to be linked to whether they're relevant. A wiki about an event that has already passed, or a franchise that's basically dead, or a movie that's long since out of general release shouldn't really be eligible, should it?