[WikiEN-l] Fiction and Wikia

Mon Nov 13 05:49:39 UTC 2006

I like this idea a lot.  Just an external link to a more relevant wiki
isn't really as attention-getting as it should be if people really
want to know more.

On 11/12/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> It occurs to me that many fictional worlds have superb wikis devoted
> to them over in Wikia. These Wikis are often doing exactly what we're
> trying to avoid doing in Wikipedia - providing large amounts of in-
> universe information.
>
> May I humbly suggest that articles on topics that are covered by such
> Wikia should have boxes at the bottom similar to the Wikiquote boxes
> that direct users to these wikis for an in-universe perspective. That
> is to say, clear, featured links to other projects that host the
> information we've decided isn't suitable for Wikipedia. (Noting that
> the reason for its unsuitability has nothing to do with its
> reliability, and everything to do with our focus.)
>
> Obviously this involves a bit of a paradigm shift, in that we would
> be linking to projects that are not, strictly speaking, sister
> projects. But if we're serious about moving this stuff out of
> Wikipedia (And I sincerely believe we should be serious about it if
> we want to have high-quality out-of-universe articles on Wikipedia,
> since to date nobody has managed to write an article that does both)
> we need to provide the people who use Wikipedia for this sort of
> information a clear alternative - not "go away and find somewhere
> else," but "go to this project over here."
>
> Are there any reasons someone with a good knowledge of template-fu
> shouldn't whip something like this up?
>
> -Phil
>
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