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Wikia is one of my favorite platforms enabled by the internet. In hours after any new content is released (whether it is a game, movie, book, etc.), it gets tho

by GuiA 13y ago

Wikia is one of my favorite platforms enabled by the internet. In hours after any new content is released (whether it is a game, movie, book, etc.), it gets thoroughly documented and compiled by a distributed community.

frik 13y ago
IMHO most content of Wikia would be a good fit for Wikipedia. Data storage space is cheap, so why not collect all encyclopedic information of human mankind? Jimmy Wales has some conflict interests with both Wikipedia and Wikia. Plus some language versions of Wikipedia (e.g. German) are run by weird admins that delete or revert almost every new addition.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  And yet, keep them apart; 'sub' Wikias set their own rules (iirc), and Wikipedia's like "A list of all pokemon in an april fools prank? OH NOES [citation needed]". And limiting knowledge to the more generalized stuff isn't bad (i.e. wikipedia), I think.
scrollaway 13y ago
Wikia is a good idea wrapped in a company that is shady as fuck and has no competition outside the gaming market. They have a history of treating their community like crap, forcing wikis they buy (uncyclopedia for example) to destroy their brand and move to *.wikia.com. They encourage content farming (copying content from other websites with no regard for the license etc) and, worst of all, their wikis are more ad infested than a Windows 98 computer running IE6 after grandma has had her dose of free smileys. Hey, entrepreneurs of HN: ever thought about solving the wiki community problem? This is a problem worth tackling if you figure out a way to make it cheap to tackle and monetize it (possibly by offering sub-monetization to your wikis, letting communities pay their editors and running an actual community economy). This is a freebie - but do PM me if you tackle it I want to see it in action!
- LoneWolf 13y ago
  Totally off topic but I really need to say it, a good example of bad wikia behavior was the unofficial guild wars wiki, that went down in quality and lost a lot of contributors when it moved there myself included, they forced a terrible layout just because they wanted ad space everywhere ruining the experience.
  - scrollaway 13y ago
    I recommend looking at gamepedia for gaming wikis. They're not great (plenty of ads still) but at least they don't force a stupid layout. Also curse is massively better community-wise.

by GuiA 13y ago

frik 13y ago

IMHO most content of Wikia would be a good fit for Wikipedia. Data storage space is cheap, so why not collect all encyclopedic information of human mankind? Jimmy Wales has some conflict interests with both Wikipedia and Wikia. Plus some language versions of Wikipedia (e.g. German) are run by weird admins that delete or revert almost every new addition.

Cthulhu_ 13y ago
And yet, keep them apart; 'sub' Wikias set their own rules (iirc), and Wikipedia's like "A list of all pokemon in an april fools prank? OH NOES [citation needed]". And limiting knowledge to the more generalized stuff isn't bad (i.e. wikipedia), I think.

scrollaway 13y ago

Wikia is a good idea wrapped in a company that is shady as fuck and has no competition outside the gaming market. They have a history of treating their community like crap, forcing wikis they buy (uncyclopedia for example) to destroy their brand and move to *.wikia.com. They encourage content farming (copying content from other websites with no regard for the license etc) and, worst of all, their wikis are more ad infested than a Windows 98 computer running IE6 after grandma has had her dose of free smileys. Hey, entrepreneurs of HN: ever thought about solving the wiki community problem? This is a problem worth tackling if you figure out a way to make it cheap to tackle and monetize it (possibly by offering sub-monetization to your wikis, letting communities pay their editors and running an actual community economy). This is a freebie - but do PM me if you tackle it I want to see it in action!

LoneWolf 13y ago
Totally off topic but I really need to say it, a good example of bad wikia behavior was the unofficial guild wars wiki, that went down in quality and lost a lot of contributors when it moved there myself included, they forced a terrible layout just because they wanted ad space everywhere ruining the experience.
- scrollaway 13y ago
  I recommend looking at gamepedia for gaming wikis. They're not great (plenty of ads still) but at least they don't force a stupid layout. Also curse is massively better community-wise.