Did you graduate from Wikia University?
You won’t get a shiny diploma you can hang on your wall - but Wikia University is still a course worth going through. Maybe you’re nodding vigorously right now, because you’ve already completed every study track, and consider yourself an editing pro. But maybe you’re scratching your head instead, wondering what I’m talking about?
Wikia University isn’t a real life campus somewhere (although that would be awesome!), but a series of short videos that teach you how to use Wikia. The videos are divided into five study tracks, each one aimed at users on a different level of editing experience:
- Welcome to Wikia - start here if you’re new to Wikia and are wondering what it is all about
- Editing 101 - a walkthrough of your first contributions
- Building …
How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat
We’ve given plenty of advice in the past on how to deal with trolls, annoying users, and bad admins. But what if that user who is upsetting the community is a bureaucrat, and can delete anything and block anyone they like?
- 1 Try diplomacy first
- 2 When to get a bureaucrat demoted
- 3 How to get a bureaucrat demoted
- 4 Bureaucrat trouble in very small communities
As in any dispute, the best option is to talk it out: Stay calm, assume your bureaucrat isn’t evil, but just coming from a different point of view, and see if you can find a way to work together.
Try these options, if a bureaucrat is causing trouble:
- Talk to the bureaucrat: Leave them a message and let them know what you think they should do differently, and why (be nice about it).
- Talk to the oth…
Another addition to the Community Support team: Eva
Hey Wikians,
I recently joined the Community Support Team at Wikia, and I’ll be helping you with your problems and answer any questions you might have.
Just like Andrea, who takes care of the German Wikia community, I grew up in Germany and live in the US now. I'm here to help out all English-speaking users. Before joining Wikia, I worked for a career network called e-fellows.net in Munich. There, it was my job to take care of the online forum and community, a group of about 50,000 students and graduates.
Obviously, Wikia has a much larger number of users and many communities on different topics. Two of my personal favorites are the Game of Thrones and the Lord of the Rings communities – you see, I like dragons, swords and medieval stuff! Bac…