Community Central talk:Wikia tour/List of wikis in this tour

Cancellation of Central Wikia tour
Since November 2008 this list should probably not contain the Central Wiki item. It can probably be removed without affecting anything else, because the general instructions are going to omit reference to it. Robin Patterson 05:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

References now diverted to Scratchpad, so Central can be removed. Robin Patterson 14:23, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Where each link goes
The first link for each tour goes to the Central Wikia page for that wiki, except in a few cases where it goes to the relevant wiki's Main Page (a necessary distinction when the Central page shows more than one wiki).

The second link, called "Tour", goes to the wiki's "Project:Wikia tour" page.


 * I think I wrote the above paragraphs a few years ago, before Wikia decided not to have a "Central" page for each wiki. I guess we should divert all of the "Central-pointing" "first" links to their subjects' main pages. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:04, January 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * I have now diverted them all to their own main pages. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:11, March 17, 2013 (UTC)

Other tours of Wikia sites
The French version of Central Wikia is working on producing a parallel tour of francophone Wikia sites.

Other "Central" Wikia may be doing the same sort of thing. This would be a good page for them to pool information or at least list their start page for anyone else interested.

Multiple tours from one site
There is no obvious reason why a single Wikia could not link into more than one tour circle. It would need an extra link on its end page and a link to return to base from at least one site in the alternative tour, and could face language problems, but the idea must be worth a try. French speakers, for example, starting from fr.wikia.com, could be given the chance to go through the "English" tour, accepting that the commentary and links are in English.

Chain is broken
Diverting to Scratchpad was meant to be a temporary move. Now it seems that more than one tour sends you there, and at least one tour has been deleted. But some tours are alive and well. So some kind soul could check the chain in detail and try to make a continuous chain again. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 10:58, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

I've checked every "tour" link (except those that are still properly linked from the previous one). Most of the good ones include the link to the next one in the chain. Where things are not as they once were, I've left a note explaining what's wrong and mostly inviting wiki enthusiasts to reconsider or to make a definite decision not to have a tour. For those that opt out, we can have their links removed and make adjustments to restore the chain. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:11, March 17, 2013 (UTC)

OK, folks, I didn't manage to get answers from all of them and bypass the broken links. But some Wikia Tours still work well. (I've just checked and improved the Imperialism one.) How about restoring the "central" pages but moving them to the Templates wiki, so that you overworked staff don't have to worry about it all but so that interested wikians can create new tours easily? -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:32, November 3, 2016 (UTC)