Highlights from our second Wikia Day
Added by Ohmyn0Last December all Wikia employees participated in our first-ever "Wikia Day" -- no meetings, no emails, no work -- just editing wikis all day long. It's a chance for us to get more familiar with the nooks and crannies of our website, root out pesky bugs, and to fall in love with wikis all over again.
December's Wikia Day was such a rip-roaring success that we decided to make it a recurring tradition. Last Friday we celebrated Wikia Day #2! Here are some highlights:
- Part of our office in Poland tackled the 8-Bit Wiki, collecting information about classic arcade games.Go to the 8-Bit Wiki
- The Arrested Development team added loads of new photos and videos to the wiki. Huzzah!Go to the Arrested Development Wiki
- The Dark Souls Wiki team began creating walkthroughs to this unique RPG. They also worked on creating a hierarchy for weapons and shields.Go to the Dark Souls Wiki
- Stan and Susan built more Top 10 lists and Quizes for the Friends WikiGo to the new Friends Quiz now!
- Marc edited episode articles on the German-language House Wiki.Go to the German-language House Wiki
- Micha and Johannes made 250 edits and uploaded 63 new images to the German-language Jagged Alliance WikiGo to the German-language Jagged Alliance Wiki
- In anticipation of "Skyfall", our resident Bond fans added Top 10 Lists, Videos, and Quizes to the James Bond Wiki.Go to the James Bond Wiki
- The Makeup Wiki team created how-tos for popular makeup techniques.Go to the Makeup Wiki
- Danny, Tomek, Inez, and Vicky uploaded 100 new photos and created galleries of Japanese Moomin merchandise.Go to the Moomin Wiki
- Our Moviepedia team added movie trailers for upcoming films and created a rating system for their article comments.Go to Moviepedia
- Our music junkies added more festivals, lineups, and dates to the Music Festivals WikiGo to the Music Festivals Wiki
- More fun from Poznan, Poland: some of our Polish office worked on the Poznan Wiki with information on their city's history.Go to the Poznan Wiki
- Aga from Poznan created an article about candy from when Poland was under Soviet controlGo to the Polish-language PRL Wiki
- Thorgal Wiki is a budding resource on a Viking-themed comic book series by a Belgian-Polish duo that many in the Polish office read and loved as kids.Go to the Polish-language Thorgal Wiki
- The Whiskeypedia team meant business! They added many new photos and articles. They also tasted several unique whiskeys for "research purposes".Go to Whiskeypedia
- Our design team gave the ABC Wipeout Wiki a complete makeover. Based on which season (Winter, Spring, Summer) the skin changes. Definitely worth a look!Go to the ABC Wipeout Wiki
1 of 16We're all quite excited with what we accomplished in just one day. In our office we have folks with all levels of wiki experience from Sannse (who made several hundreds of edits without breaking a sweat) to wiki newbie Patricia, who knocked out an awesome main page for the new The Stone Roses Wiki in an afternoon.
What project would you tackle if you set aside an entire day to edit on your favorite wiki? Which of our changes do you find most inspiring/interesting for your wiki?
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28 comments
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Spam?
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Yep, I would contact the Wikia Staff here. Just link the comment and they should block him.
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Next time, maybe you could do it on a different day than Friday... :P I'm not ever here on Fridays, and I know a lot of people have schedules that are based on days rather than dates. For example they might be gone ever Tuesday, and home every Wednesday. I think it would work a lot better if that day that it's on rotates. :)
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Great Idea :)
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I would finish the Buttons projects on Need For Madness Wiki, if I had the time.
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If I set aside an entire day to edit my Wiki... I'd set up an awesome new mainpage and site look, and get some content going, and start to look for a community to give me a helping hand!
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"Moviepedia"? I thought there weren't supposed to be any more "-pedia" wikis, especially given that -pedia has never been suffix.
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According to who?
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It's not prohibited but it's discouraged because it's not good for SEO
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I would think that it would be a case-by-case thing. If WIkia is going to allow multiple wikis on the same topic, sometimes -pedia might be a way to distinguish one from the others.
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When you go to create a new wiki, the naming field is "___ Wiki", as a major way to discourage it. That means this was created as the "Moviepedia Wiki"," by an official Wikia staff member, who should know better given the SEO...
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That's cool
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Trevor, GREAT write up to inform the community about this. I didn't even know there was a Wikia day coming. Your team has done some very excellent things to various wikis. Inspirational, challenging, and creating not yet seen templates and ways to do things. I love the creativity of the wikia team. Way to go!
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The first one was clearly a warmup. Someone should probably try to collect some of the great ideas in help pages or blogs.
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I would finish making the Dancing Sushi articles on the Kappa Mikey Wiki, or work on making the season one episode articles for Kappa Mikey.
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http://wikads.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity i WOULS LOVE IT TO
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Nice work all. It's nice to see what happens when staff dedicate a day to wikis.
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When's the next Wikia Day, because I could use some help on the WWII Wiki
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Oh, the changing of the background on the Wipeout wiki is a cool idea and looks easy to do. (Gears turning...)
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How was the rating system for Moviepedia article comments created?
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looks like a template with a few IF variables, from my guess.
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yeah its w:c:movies:Template:Stars
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It looks like it is simpler than the Template:Stars (which doesn't appear to be used) and instead just uses: w:c:movies:Template:1 Star, w:c:movies:Template:2 Stars, w:c:movies:Template:3 Stars, w:c:movies:Template:4 Stars, w:c:movies:Template:5 Stars.
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It's a FIRE.... sale Great Job everyone! Especially to TREVOR!
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Evacuate all the school children!
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No, Cook, let them fend for themselves! >:)
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Whooo! Go team Arrested Development!! :D
