Wikis are community-built projects, and as successful as the community members who are a part of them. One of the most rewarding experiences I have had as an admin on wikis like Star Wars Fanpedia is being able to attract new readers and editors. Being able to successfully promote your wiki is crucial to the success of your project, so this blog will cover some of my tips and tricks for how to best attract new users.

Wikis aren't nearly as fun if you're editing by yourself, so part of your time should focus on bringing in new users. If you're not promoting your wiki, then the odds of people finding it will go way down. To build a community and large amounts of content for it, people need to be able to find your wiki.

Before I tell you some of …

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Hello Wikians! Since we announced our Wikia Stars program earlier this year, we’ve been hard at work, connecting with our Stars, learning from them and getting them involved in the work we do at Wikia.

We’re excited to share a few snippets of what they’ve been up to. Here’s a short video with Kitsufox and BachLynn23, two Stars who recently visited the Wikia office in San Francisco, sharing a little bit about how they use Wikia.

Peterparker and Jamie joined us at C2E2 in Chicago last month. Peterparker participated in our live Expert Showcase panel on The Walking Dead and the live-action version of our Qwizards quiz show, and both Peterpark and Jamie were judges for our Cosplay contest.

You’ll begin to see more of the Wikia Stars over the com…

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From time to time we like to give the community some insight into the people at Wikia who you don't see posting on the staff blog regularly (such as Trella's 'A Day in the Life' series). Today I’ll be talking with the visual designers who worked on the My Wikia app, and finding out more about the process of creating the newest way to experience Wikia communities. We have Elsa Kawai, Wikia’s Creative Director, Mika Kozma, Lead Interaction Designer, and Danny Chung, Art Director.

How did the three of you collaborate while working on the My Wikia project?

It took more than just 3 of us to create this product. Stanley Tran and [former designer] Deb Lin were also a part of this process, and of course there was the engineering team involved that a…

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At last, our first full-length episode of the Wikia Community Podcast is live! This week on the show, we on the Community Development team cover some awesome Wikia news, delve into the future of Star Wars and Star Trek, the crowd funding launch of Shadow of the Eternals (the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness ), the new Sims , and so much more!

As always, we want you to be a part of this podcast, so if you have a piece of news you want us to discuss, have a wiki you want to get on the air or any thoughts on the show, please let us know in the comments below or send us an email to podcast@wikia-inc.com. You can also find links to relevant wikis and more in the show notes, so be sure to give that a look. You will always be able to find u…

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Do you have a pet? If so, what do you think your day be like if you could bring your pet in to school or work? Let's hear all about it in the comments section below!

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Greeting Wikians!

As we gear up for an exciting May, I wanted to take a moment you remind you all of our Office Hours program. In the past, we've hosted special chats and hangouts dedicated to answering all of you wiki-related questions live!

Each Thursday this May, Staff will be hanging out with you in Chat to answer any wiki-related questions that you may have. Does creating the perfect wordmark for skin frustrate you? Just can't seem to grasp templates? Or do you just want to spend some time with some really awesome staff members? Well then come on down to Community Central Chat for Office Hours!

Thursdays in MAY at 1pm PDT (20:00 GMT)

• In order to come prepared for Office Hours, please remember to review our Chat Guidelines.
• Office Hours can…

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The Community Development team here at Wikia is excited to announce the first ever Wikia Community Podcast! We want to bring you a show that will entertain, educate, and inspire, so each week we plan on bringing you discussions on a variety of subjects. Expect to hear an assortment of Wikia related updates, chats about the latest Video Games and Entertainment news, highlights of our favorite wikis around Wikia, and conversations with special guests!

We want you to be a part of this podcast, so if you a piece of news you want us to discuss, have a wiki you want to get on the air, or any thoughts on the show, please let us know in the comments below or send us an email to podcast@wikia-inc.com.

Listen to the show below and subscribe to the sho…

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This week we're introducing a new way to track the health and well-being of Wikia Communities — WAM! The Wikia Activity Monitor (WAM) gives a Wikia Community a score between 0 and 100, based on a variety of measurements, including page views, contributions, and level of user activity. WAM scores are calculated daily for the top 5000, and the scores are displayed at http://www.wikia.com/WAM. Scores can also be seen on each of our Video Games, Entertainment and Lifestyle hub pages. Like all of the things that factor into the calculation, the scores and rankings are sensitive to real-world events and so will change frequently.

For example, it's no surprise to see the Wikia's Mad Men wiki score going up due to the show's new season starting re…

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Welcome to the next exciting installment of our Featured Wikian Interviews. Today we're speaking with Bereisgreat, who also happens to be one of our Wikia Stars.

Wikia: Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Bereisgreat: I am Bereisgreat, more commonly known as Bere. I'm 18 and live in Belgium (Flanders). I am currently studying Applied Informatics in college. My main interests and activities resolve around manga and anime, both reading/watching and making Wikis about them. Wikia also sparked an interest in web designing/HTML/CSS. I've also been playing basketball for about 8 years. Oh and I also like cats. :)

Wikia: How did you first discover Wikia?

Bereisgreat: After watching a random AMV (anime music video), I started watching the Bleach anime. …

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Hi everyone!

My name is Sactage, and today I am guest blogging on the staff blog so I can introduce you to Wikia's Volunteer Spam Task Force, or VSTF for short. We're a group of users who have volunteered to help make Wikia a better place for readers and editors alike. In order to effectively perform this task, we have access to several global tools, such as global blocks and global spam filter, as well as the ability to delete pages and block users on most Wikia wikis. However, we do not have any authority over local wiki tasks like an administrator does - I usually equate our responsibilities to that of a janitor. We are here to help, but aren't the leaders on the wikis we visit.

As VSTF, our primary job is to keep Wikia clean from spam. Most…

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