Forum:Scandinavian Anime Wiki

I was thinking about making a wiki for all the scandinavian languages. (ie. Norwegian {Nynorsk and Bokmål}, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese and all dialects)

The topic would be Anime and the goal to make an encyclopedia with description of all the series, the characters, and the episodes in different languages, including but not restricted to the scandinavian languages.

A sample of what it could look like is here.

I have not thought a name for it yet and am not sure if the format in the sample should be used. Any ideas? Any objections?

Takeshi 20:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * How do you mean? One wiki for Scandinavic? I may have misinterpreted... though, I'm not very interested in anime but I speak Swedish and I can help with translation stuff maybe... but again, do you mean one wiki or multiple? – Smiddle 20:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * If I can get this project started I would really appreciate your help! The initial idea was to create a wiki (episode guide and stuff like that) on my fav series in icelandic. (I already started it in the scratchpad) But since that surely would not attract enough users I thought maybe a wiki on anime overall. But that would still not attract too many. And, since I am very interested in the other scandinavian languages, I thought it should be one in all of those languages. It would avoid stubs more and one could get more information out of it since most of those languages are so similar.


 * The sample shows how it could look like. But it also could look completely different. We would have to see what people prefer. But another matter is the name. Usually wikia would use the language code and then the name. What would it be with a multilingual one?


 * Also if the Anime topic does not interest too many people it could be just a scandinavic language wikia. Cause I kinda like the idea and wouldn't want to drop it.


 * Takeshi 22:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The name spaces and system messages can become a problem though... – Smiddle 13:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC) and the language code. – Smiddle 13:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * And I made up a name also: what about Skanime wiki or something :) – Smiddle 13:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The Former English Anime Wiki (now Animepedia for technical reasons) is actualy part of the Wikia Anime Project, the final goal of the project after fixing up the anime wiki, networking it with other wikia about individual anime, including manga, then including comics and cartoons is actualy hopefully to have it all translated into other languages. Though I admit, one wiki spanning multiple languages might not fit in with the technical system being built, possibly less than with the wikia system. Dantman (Talk) 16:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I like that name. ^^ Well, it doesn't really need a language code if we call it scanime.wikia.com instead of ??.anime.wikia.com.
 * It would be nice if it could be a sister project of the current Animepedia. If I understand this correctly you rather want direct translations instead of own articles. But what would then be the point of it being a wiki if the writers can't actually contribute anything? What technical system is that you are talking about anyway?
 * Anyways, I don't want to pick a fight. The main purpose of the one I am thinking of is to gather a collection of episode guides in multiple languages. It needn't to be only anime. Could be called episodes.wikia.com. The whole idea is still in the working process. I didn't request anything yet.
 * Btw. feel free to edit the samplepage if you have any better ideas. ^^
 * Takeshi 19:03, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Ya, I guess my plans for multiple-languages is a bit off. I really added the extra languages goal as to not discriminate against another language, but I don't really have the ability to handle a cmmunity in another language. The technical system I'm talking about I detailed at Forum:Wikia Anime (and Manga?) Project it's basicly a special system to be installed at the animepedia with multiple purposes. It allows per anime css, meaning that each anime will actualy end up with it's own extra personal style. It allows title changing (So that long things like Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki could be sortened into Naruto Uzumaki), And it allows most of all, a special linking system which allows any anime to be linked to from any wikia using a special interwiki system (Anime:Naruto:Naruto Uzumaki would lead to w:c:Naruto:Naruto Uzumaki while at the same time Anime:Chobits:Chii would lead to w:c:Anime:Chobits/Chi.) But i've been setting some systems up, basicly ones which keep standards over a number of wikia in the project, so I might not be able to incorporate your wiki into the project. But feel free to start your own, It's too off for the project, but it's got stuff we don't and would be a good wikia on it's own. Dantman (Talk) 19:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I understand. Mine would probably not fit there, no. But a small link on the mainpage would still work. Anyways, what do you think? Would it be better to have it only Anime series and OVA's or include all series?
 * Takeshi 20:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know any of that languages, but it souns very good. Approve.


 * And I think it should cover all the series and manga. Don't you want a large wiki better than a middle one? --Nethac DIU 21:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Quite true. Then I guess it will be descriptions of episodes, movies, mangas, doujinshis, characters, creatures, Nintendo and Playstation games, conventions, and everything that comes close to all those wich is suitible for all ages, in the scandinavian languages.
 * I will go and fill out a request form then and see how it turns out. Whether it is rejected or not, we can still make changes and stuff. Let's just see.
 * Scanime it is then. But what should the main language be? Just english so that everyone understands? Or one of the continental scandi languages? Anyways, I'll look at the request form now.
 * Takeshi 23:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Takeshi 23:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Okey. First problem already. What should I select as content language? And what do they mean with dropdownmenu? There is no dropdown there.
 * Well, the way I'm doing it now is: Content language: is Category:Íslenska, nn Category:Nynorsk, no Category:Bokmål, sv Category:Svenska, da Category:Dansk, fo Category:Føroysk without the :. Hope that works.
 * Well, here is the link: Scanime
 * Takeshi 00:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Your idea is a good general one on it's own, so I think that yes it should cover as many types as you can. I'm planning on being able to have a standard sidebar created by bot, if I get it working, I'll consider placing your project under an affiliates, or related wikia section. Dantman (Talk) 04:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that would be great!
 * Takeshi 16:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)


 * How is it decided if a request will be accepted or not? And how long could it take? - Takeshi 10:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Comparison table
I made a comparison table for namespaces, which maybe can help:

If someone here speaks Icelandic, I would appreciate if you edit user:Smiddle/langs and add Icelandicforum namespaces. Thanks! – Smiddle 11:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! This could really be usefull. I have corrected some misspellings in the icelandic version. But about the forum thing. There is no real translation i know. You could use really long words like umræðusvæði or spjallasíða. But since there is no forum function on Wikipedia Iceland even the faroese use forum I guess we can leave it as forum as well. (I mean umræðusvæðaspjall and spjallasíðuspjall sound really stupid.)
 * Takeshi 18:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for correcting, I was a little dizzy with the Icelandic interfixes. The reason I didn't put Icelandic forum in the table was that 'forum' didn't give any results, and I checked Wiktionary, which didn't have any translations. And the talk page, because I didn't know the interfix. – Smiddle 19:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The best translation would have been just Spjall(wich means chat). But that would mean that Forum talk would be Spjallaspjall.....
 * BTW: Will the wiki be able to use the specialpages in different languages?
 * Takeshi 17:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, in the preferences language settings are customizable, so if one wants it to display e.g. a Norwegian special page, they'd just choose Norwegian in the preferences. Or edit system messages so that in stead of saying Title, it could say Title/titel/navne etc. – Smiddle 18:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I am using icelandic as prefered language. But all it does is translate the tabs and everything. But the pages are still all in english.
 * Takeshi 19:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

= Dafault language =

As I thought do I have to decide on a default language for the wiki. Now I want to know is would people prefer english or a scandinavian language. And if a scandi, then wich one would be understood best by most. Danish is spoken by many icelanders, faroese and greenlanders. Swedish is spoken by many finns. Norwegian incoporates parts of swedish, danish and icelandic. So wich would be best do you think?

Takeshi 12:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a hard choice. – Smiddle 18:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I asked around at a few places and people seem to prefer english. Takeshi 10:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)