User talk:Envidia

Envidia, good job on getting the wiki requested ^_^. It would be nice of you would think of looking over What will happen? and Extended info if you don't get enough info from the other one. Having another wiki co-operating in the WGEP would be nice, and it would make the wiki easier to start. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Talk)

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Envidia, you should probably read over Common mistakes. You're doing a fair bit of them. Ask me for some help if you don't understand some of the Wikia policies or things that are followed around here by all wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Talk)


 * Well, if you have template issues, like I said joining the WGEP (Actually, it's recently been renamed to Wikia ACG), would be a good idea. The 2 main points of Wikia ACG is networking the wiki within the scope of the project together, and also the use of a common set of Templates/CSS/JS that also help make it easy to start a new wiki in the project. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 14, 2007 @ 02:40 (UTC)

Envidia... copying from Wikipedia is actually a very good way to start off a wiki (Though you need to attribute properly). The reason why Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL is because it's meant to be freely usable anywhere. As long as the original is attributed it's quite encouraged to use Wikipedia articles to start of a wiki. There is something called Critical Mass in the world of wiki editing. It's a point that a Founder needs to get the articles to on their own. Critical Mass is basically the point at which the wiki looks as if it has a fair bit of content, and that is what gets new editors to decide to start editing. But Critical Mass can be quite a large amount of content that needs to be started, quite insane for one person to write alone. That's one of the purposes of Wikipedia articles. A quote that I like to use is "Don't reinvent the wheel unless it needs reinventing." Originally is useless if someone has already written about the topic in a manor which is good, clear, and freely available. The best course of action is not to say I didn't write it, so I don't want it. The best course of action is to take what the many users of Wikipedia have worked on, format it to fit on the wiki, And then expand on it with the large amount of information that Wikipedia is missing. Truth is, that is one of the main points of creating a Wikia wiki. Wikipedia is good for general info, but notability stops them from going into to much detail. So the main point of starting a Wiki wiki, is to start of where Wikipedia has got to, and push further than they are able to do. Do remember that a good portion of your editors may come from Wikipedia, some of them may come from Wikipedia to add more info here because it's not notable enough to be put on the Wikipedia articles. ^_^ why else do you think that Wikia has put the template in as one of templates which is imported to a Wiki when it it first created? Aside from the massive projects like the Yu-Gi-Oh wiki, the Narutopedia, Dragon Ball Wiki, and Gundam Wiki are about the most active Animanga wiki on Wikia. Guess how they started or are starting their articles? They copy the Wikipedia article over, attribute it, format it to fit the Wiki, split some of it into separate articles, and then they expand and edit the article. (A number of the wiki also try to rescue pages from Wikipedia that are going to be deleted for notability reasons. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 16, 2007 @ 08:50 (UTC)
 * Also, remember that Encyclopedia aren't original. In fact they're quite the opposite. An Encyclopedia is a collection of information from various sources formatted into a easily readable format. If you can't cite a source for your information most of the time it'll be removed from an encyclopedia. Do remember Wikipedia's WP:NOR. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 16, 2007 @ 09:00 (UTC)

Which part of the format? Every wiki in Wikia ACG has been highly customized. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 17, 2007 @ 05:28 (UTC)


 * Oh, that's because all new Wikia have the new Quartz skins by default. The reason most of my wiki still have monobook is because 90% of the Wikia ACG wiki are quite old. Wikia just hasn't migrated the old wiki to the new skins yet. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 17, 2007 @ 21:07 (UTC)

meh... The Main Page has to much description text, the footer isn't treated like a footer, and it doesn't have a good index of areas that will be in the wiki that can be browsed. I actually have a good base that I normally use to create a nice Main Page for wiki that don't have a good one.

The search box is a skin thing. Monobook has it on the left below the sidebar, and the new Wikia Quartz skins have the search box in the upper right. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 25, 2007 @ 19:56 (UTC)