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My involvement in Wikia, though, came when I was struggling with
a massive amount of San Francisco’s homeless resources, in printed
form, and trying to digitize it into my vision for a new resource
website. But my vision was stuck in the old school web and database
formats that had been around for 10 year… Hello Wikians! It's been a little bit over two months
since we published our last Mobile update, where we introduced you
to: Since then it's been an inter… Hello All! I'm excited to announce that we will be hosting our second live
Google+ Hangout on Air at 4pm PDT today. This hangouts's
topic is using Social Media (specifically Twitter) to help promote
and grow your Wikia community. Myself, along with Wikia staff members and Nate Blonkenfeld will
be live on-camera offering tips and tricks, as well as responding
to your questions! Prior to our hangout, feel free to post questions here on what
you would like to see covered. You can also tweet your quest… So there you are, sitting at home with some friends, and
suddenly an argument erupts about who played Professor Slughorn in
the Harry Potter films. When it’s clear no one can agree, you hit
up Google, and it leads you to a site called the Harry Potter Wiki.
Maybe you get the information you need and leave, never to return,
but I suspect as you’re reading this blog, you’ve stuck around. The
question is, why did you stick around? What should you do now? Getting the most out of your Wikia experienc…
Wikia is a great way for people to come together to share
information on the things they love. And what do we love?
Apparently video games,TV shows and cooking (and encyclopedias)!
Who doesn’t?
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Hello Wikians! It's been a little bit over two months
since we published our last Mobile update, where we introduced you
to: Since then it's been an inter… I’m Stanley, and it has been a busy day for me! I'm the Mobile
Product Manager at Wikia, and today I am happy to announce not only
the release of the My Wikia iPad App, but also the second version
of our Game Guides app! Back before Wikia was focused on Mobile, Federico, now our Lead
Mobile Developer, had an idea to make an app that would give gamers
quick and easy access to the rich information produced by Wikia’s
awesome editor community, anytime and anywhere. Federico made Wikia
Game Guides a… Exciting news! Today marks the release of the first version of
My Wikia for iPad, our official flagship app. For the past couple of years, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed learning
how users first discovered Wikia and ultimately, how they became
loyal Wikians like you. A prolific contributor and fellow Product
Manager, Trevor (Ohmyn0), became a Wikia-addict as he was watching
LOST during college and this led to prominent roles on Scrubs Wiki
and Arrested Development Wiki. I often wonder what would have
h…
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
t…
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First of all, I've written this countdown for my wiki at the
very beginning because the "official" one suggested by Wikia isn't
cool to fit in the Chinese language. (We don't have commas in the
date/time!) You may use this timer to do a vivid countdown on an upcoming
event, the release date of a new game or episode or movie or the
remaining time of the ongoing activities. As those who frequent any chat know, sometimes the chat goes
quiet, or it "dies." When the chat is "dead" many people like to
state something along the lines of "Dead chat." When people
say that the chat is dead, more often than not, the chat remains
dead. When there is no discussion going on, a good idea for getting
a discussion started is to play a game. Not a long game or an in
depth game, but a game that allows all the users in chat to
participate if they choose too. This game can also be p… As a member of the Community Support Team and long time wiki
editor, one of the areas I most often get questions about are
Templates. Templates allow for you to create a consistent look
across your wiki, but can be tricky to set up. Here I would like to
offer steps of how to customize a basic template called an infobox.
This guide is meant for those with at least a basic knowledge of
templates and will cover some of the more advanced techniques. It
may be helpful to read over Template:Infobox. … Many of you have probably consulted a help page on Wikia at some
point. You might have done that here on Community Central, on your
home wiki, or on a wiki you just founded. Did you ever wonder how
the same help pages exist in all of those different places? When
you're done reading this, you'll know all that and more! Until recently, there was a separate wiki called the Help Wiki
where all of the Wikia Help articles resided. A few months ago, we
migrated all of that content onto Community Centra…
As the name suggests, it's a countdown timer. It's simple and it
works. It got a dynamic flippi…
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Founder & Admin Central Guides
Once you have founded a wiki or are appointed to being an admin or bureaucrat on a wiki, there are a few key places on your wiki that you should familiarize yourself with. These places help admins and founders manage, monitor and edit. They are by far the most used areas for admins:
- Rich Text Editor
- Wiki Activity and Recent Changes
- Special:SpecialPages
- Admin Dashboard
Within this Guide, we'll walk through the Admin Dashboard and how to use it.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
When I first started editing the My Little Pony Wiki, I was thrilled to earn my first achievement badge! Day after day I would edit on MLP a little here and a little there. Each day, I'd scan the list of top contributors on the leaderboard (Special:Leaderboard) to see my name slowly start to rise. It was thrilling and exciting. I felt like I was helping the community to a better place by adding categories and editing articles. Some people pride themselves on edit counts which is great, but I try to focus on specific goals -- that's why I love achievements.
Achievements are a great way to customize your wiki while also encouraging editors to contribute more. Each achievement is awarded based on of a variety of things. And each achievement can be customized to fit the need of your wiki.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
Recent Changes — or as it's sometimes referred to as 'RC' — is much like Wiki Activity. They both track contributions on a wiki. But Recent Changes records all of the activity. It's more of a technical feed of everything that's taking place on a wiki. With Recent Changes, you can actually see everything that is happening. Don't have a lot of activity on your wiki yet? That's ok too. Recent Changes is also really helpful to look back and find something you did, uploaded or added. It's a quick short cut to seeing what's happening on your wiki and all of the wikis you are stopping by to check out.
Let's go over what all these numbers, characters and information mean. As you can see there is a lot of info and if you have no idea what you are reading -- it can be a little confusing and daunting.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
Wikis by nature have a lot of activity on them. Once a wiki starts to attract a community, whether that's two or three people or hundreds of people, a lot of action can happen over any period of time. Editing, uploading an image, writing a blog post, leaving a comment, adding a new page, asking a question in a forum—so much can happen! Because anyone can come and edit (and add any of the above contributions and more) it’s useful to be able to find all of that activity in one place.
As a good admin, it's important to monitor the activity on your wiki for a number of reasons. The main reason is to see what is being added and edited. This is your space, your community—it's important to see what exactly is being edited and by whom. Two tools used to keep track of wiki changes are Wiki Activity and Recent Changes. Both of these features are useful tools for this task.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
When editing, leaving comments or posting on wikis you'll need to know the basics of wikitext. It's true we have our awesome editor that helps with editing, but there are times where you'll need to edit using wiki text. Such situations can occur when leaving comments on blogs or article pages or when a page is only editable in source mode.
Wikipedia defines wiki text or wiki markup as a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites. It is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers.
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