You've Got Founder Mail
Have you noticed new emails in your inbox lately from Wikia? If you’re a founder you have! You’re receiving newly redesigned founder emails that were recently rolled out for the English community (international wikis will have them soon too). Below I walk you through the what, the why and the how of the new features surrounding these emails. We hope you will be as excited as we are about them.
- We redesigned the emails with HTML.
- We switched to local (each wiki you own) preferences as opposed to global (across the site).
- Instead of one preference to control all of the founder emails, there are now multiple preferences.
- Just like our older emails we still let you know who has joined and who has edited your wiki -- but we have also added a new em…
10 Ways to Engage Users on Your Wiki
Over the past few months, we’ve been sharing tips, tricks, and best practices to help you create and build the community you crave on your wiki. We’ve asked you to share what works best on your wiki (lots of great comments on that post, thank you!), and some of you have written awesome blog posts about how to make a wiki thrive — check out BobNewbie's Make Your Wiki Great and Fandyllic's Ways to Promote Your Wiki. These posts are two great examples (among many) of users sharing their knowledge with others. It’s exciting to see what we can learn from being a member of the Wikia community.
Since I started at Wikia, I’ve noticed that some users create a wiki, but they're not sure what to do next. There are so many tips for growing a community;…
Say Hello to New Wikia Staff
As we noted in our last blog post, Wikia has been growing quickly over the past year. With site growth comes company growth, and we’ve recently added some new members to our staff at Wikia’s headquarters in San Francisco. In this post, I’ll be introducing you to a few of the newbies. I’m one of them, so hello!
I’m Meighan O’Toole, the Community Manager for Founder Experience. I have been running around the Internet since 2005. My background is in social media; I’ve held positions at companies like Yahoo! and Juxtapoz Magazine online, and I also manage my own art blog. When I’m not online cultivating community and surfing the world wide web, I’m out riding my bike, heading to an artist’s studio, or attending art shows in San Francisco.
You’ll …