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New hubs

Sarah Manley Sarah Manley March 22, 2010
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Sarah ManleyAdded by Sarah Manley
In a continuing effort to make it easier for people to find all the amazing communities and interesting content across the whole of Wikia, we have built a set of new category homepages. These are live today, and will be linked from the top navigation menus on Wikia's home page, www.wikia.com. They are designed to automatically show the largest wikis, the most popular blog posts, heavily edited articles and most active users in each category, which include topics such as Xbox Games, Anime, TV, Horror and much more.


The great part about these pages is they highlight some of the best community activity across Wikia. Did you know that:


We have lots of ideas for more statistics and data feeds to add to these pages - but we'd also love to hear from you, so please let us know what content you'd like to see. We also hope to expand this system in the future to many new categories as they grow.

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  • Scarbrow

    I'll put it plainly, current design of hubs sucks big time. The previous one was way superior, if only because you could see more wikis. No matter how I try, there's no way I can find my wiki in there. Only top 10, and each of them show on several categories, furthering reducing the options. Bring the hubs back!!

    by Scarbrow
  • Solar Dragon

    Well, top wikis should be about page numbers really, not views. We need a proper answers one, one that links to something like the others other that Wikianswers.

    by Solar Dragon
  • Wynthyst

    I have to say I think this new "Hub" has a serious flaw in it's design and usability. It's great if you want to see the top 15 wikis in any of the topic areas, but the "See More..." link should link back to the primary portal of that area, rather than the "hub". For instance, if I'm on the Gaming wiki, and I go up to gaming, because I want to see wikis OTHER than the top 15 listed on the hub, and oh, gee, I want to see PC Games (you'd think this would have made the cut) but there is no PC Gaming link, so my only option is... See More... well, guess what? That just reloads the "hub" page I'm looking at. Very useful I would say... NOT. The See More link needs to link back to w:c:gaming. I thought wiki's were all about ease of use for users. This also cuts out any potential traffic to us smaller wikis since no one will ever see us, since we will never be in the top 15. I don't see how this is "promoting community".

    by Wynthyst
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  • LordTBT

    So what's going on with improving the hubs? It's been 2 months now.

    by LordTBT
  • SpongeWriter123

    Me too!

    by SpongeWriter123
  • William Leonard

    I'm on the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki!

    by William Leonard
  • Bluethunder213

    One reason I don't like Top Blogs section is because some blogs can have name calling, and some sites allow that. One several blogs I've seen, there are people calling other people idiots and other impolite words. I find that it may shed negative light on Wikia as a whole.

    by Bluethunder213
  • The 888th Avatar

    So what exactly is happening with the Central hubs? In some places, they duplicate each other...

    by The 888th Avatar
  • Rollerboy 8

    I think yug-i-oh is a great game

    by Rollerboy 8
  • Jewntansoath

    This is overall a good idea for Wikia...But what about books? Yeah, they can be entertainment but if some of the books wikis could just get some help to grow and all I'm sure they could strive in a hub of their own.

    by Jewntansoath
  • Webkinz Mania

    I agree with Bluethunder. I have seen TONS of Fan Fiction Wikis and several Fanon Wikis.

    by Webkinz Mania
  • Bluethunder213

    Also, I don't think there's a Fan Fiction/Fanon new hub. Which, in my opinion, is a must. There are 50+ wikis that are labeled fanon/fan fiction and if they don't have a newly styled hub the newer, smaller fan wikis may be looked over.

    by Bluethunder213
  • Bethel23

    @Sarah Manley: Okay, glad to here page views are used, rather than contributors.There must, must be a link to the list of wikis in the hub – for instance, the Lifestyle page must have a link to the complete list of Lifestyle wikis. I don't mind if it's just a "More wikis" button, but it has to be there – we don't want people thinking that there are only ten wikis here!

    by Bethel23
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  • Bethel23

    Or, in Children Books Wiki's case, nearly 500 pages and just one contributor! :)

    by Bethel23
  • Bluethunder213

    Maybe there should be a section for smaller wikis to make announcements. Like if they broke the 100 article mark. You could classify the small wikis by number of contributors or something like that because some small wikis have 200 pages but only 2 contributors.

    Also, I'm not a big fan of the top three blogs. But that's my opinion.

    by Bluethunder213
  • Sarah Manley

    @bethel23 We are currently using pageviews per month as our means of ranking top wikis.

    We are continuing to tweak the wiki tags, so you do not see same wikis across multiple categories, and we are open to suggestions on ways to better surface smaller/newer/popular/etc wikis, so feel free to post here.

    We are also always open to suggestions for other ways to highlight wikis.

    by Sarah Manley
  • Gourleyo

    What are they???

    by Gourleyo
  • LordTBT

    I'm confused on how this is supposed to help people find 'more' wikis...when I click Entertainment, it lists only 10, and the 'top 10' wikis overlap in all of the other Entertainment categories.

    Not to mention, all the categories overlap...and there isn't one for Books listed (the original form of entertainment).

    Where are wikis that have 1000+ 5000+ articles supposed to be listed? Etc. As the others said, links to the hubs are needed.

    by LordTBT
  • Bluethunder213

    I do agree that there should be a link to more wikis. The less popular wikis need a chance to grow.

    by Bluethunder213
  • Bethel23

    Meh - CBW falls down on all of those! And no, I don't import information from elsewhere. :) While I realise it's not as accurate as other options, it would be nice if I got some credit for adding 450+ articles myself. The other thing with CBW is that all of the articles are filled out and well written - we have almost no stub articles.

    by Bethel23

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