User blog comment:Brian Linder/Introducing the Fandom Official Community Partnership Program/@comment-4018164-20190719061825

The Official Wiki program sounds like a really interesting and good way to promote communities. However, i'd like to make a point about the "Official Wiki" badge thing.

Having an official wiki is, at least to me, a lot more meaningful when it comes from the content creator's side and not from the wiki's side. In Armor Games, for instance, in the bottom of every game there is a "Wiki" tab that allows you to directly visit a wiki about this game that has been submitted to and approved by Armor Games. Might not be a good example since not all games there that have wikis have them linked, and sometimes there are several Fandom wikis about a game and the "bad" one gets linked, but it's a lot more accessible if a link to an official wiki is within a click's reach for someone who plays that game.

Moreover, i suspect that for a visiting reader that is just looking for information, having a site stating that it is "official" is a bit self-proclaiming and they wouldn't take this title very seriously. I mean, it reminds me of W3C's validity badges. Only saw them a few times, and even when i did, clicking them revealed a bunch of errors.

So while i don't expect content creator to add a huge "official wiki" button that will link to Fandom right on their website's home page, it would be nice if the "Official Wiki" badge in wiki will be a clickable component (like an image or just a span with a link), that upon clicking will lead to an official confirmation in the content creator's website, stating that this wiki, indeed, is official.