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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 sh… 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. 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… 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 o…
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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.
Peterparker and Jamie joined us at C2E2 in Chicago last month.
Peter…
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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!
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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… "Mobile is the future!", "Mobile is the future of the
world!", or "Mobile will dominate the future!" You might have read similarly-titled articles around the web in
the last couple of years. From new apps to skins, mobile is the
latest big buzz. Here at Wikia, we have been similarly intrigued,
and today I am happy to announce we have our own exciting mobile
news! We at Wikia are always looking to innovate and give you, the
community, the best experience possible. Whether it's reading,
editing, or …
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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