Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5313287-20140622032734/@comment-5116706-20140624005110

The Cupquake wiki is an entirely different situation, simply by it's small size and low traffic. This wiki, however, is arguably one of the largest YouTube wikis currently on Wikia, not only having thousands of files and pages, but also receiving so much Internet traffic that it acts as a traffic source for other YouTube wikis, such as the Cupquake wiki. Saying that, the Cupquake wiki was able to delete their pages on Wikia because a wiki that small doesn't really do anything for Wikia. I would assume that a wiki like this one probably generates a somewhat impressive little sum of ad revenue for Wikia.

As for the Gamepedia wiki, although I haven't been able to contribute there due to time constrictions from my music and because Curse sites seem to completely overload Google Chrome, I have been able to somewhat monitor the site for brief periods of time. And, quite simply, I really don't see it working out based on the current activity that has gone on since its creation. Probably the biggest issue is the fact that, rather than being able to save YouTube videos via a link directly onto the site, we have to manually go through every single page with a video(s) and enter some wikitext in order to embed each YouTube video, one by one. Seeing as we have over 7,000 articles, some with more than one video, that task alone is an almost impossible one to complete with the current manpower that the Gamepedia wiki has been showing lately, and I don't see it being accomplished in the next month, much less by the start of July.

Another issue is that, although many users have protested otherwise, this wiki is indeed a form of social networking. It's a community that's built upon many Wikia features already built in and readily available, such as convenient message walls, a more usable navigation bar, an organized forum and, of course, chat. Gamepedia has none of these. When we have to actually use a third-party chat program to mimic something that we already on Wikia, then you really have to question the real usefulness of Gamepedia compared to Wikia.

Another issue is Wikia's policy of keeping the old Wikia site not only active, but also welcoming and allowing new users to choose whether or not to edit on the new wiki; essentially, two wikis with the exact same information would be competing against each other, with Wikia having a clear advantage because of its search engine superiority.

Saying all this, one must really question why Gamepedia should be considered as an alternative host, perhaps if we really need a new host. Prior to Thin being offered a spot with Gamepedia, we didn't really have any quarrel or disagreements over the running of Wikia, nor do we have any today. Since Wikia hasn't actually done anything to push us away, we've had to compromise our wiki experience because of the features we enjoy on Wikia don't exist on Gamepedia, the actual transfer of not only all of the wiki information, but also the community at large AND the fact that we would essentially be running two wikis and competing with ourselves for views as well as the apparent difficulty many people have been having with their account transfer (I don't see why, but okay), I really do not see a true reason to switch over to Gamepedia, which my computer does not seem to enjoy at all, when I'm pretty sure that almost everyone would be much more comfortable with staying here. Was it a failure? By all means no, this was an experimental step (whether it was a step forward or backward is up to you) that would be difficult for any group to deal with, and it's a good thing that Thin is trying it out. But we must remember: this was, and still is an experiment, and one must be prepared to say "Nah, I'm good here" and return to where they were before.

All in all, staying with Wikia seems like a much simpler plan, since most of the community is still here, competing with a Wikia site is a bitch and a half, we're all used to how Wikia works and we don't really seem to gain anything from switching over to Gamepedia.