What is Reddit's opinion of
FANDOM?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
➔ FANDOM website
By popularity on Reddit, this Service is:
64 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
The Jagex wiki had so much potential. :(
Oh well. You can't argue with the fact the fan RS wiki is the top wikia on the ENTIRE FUCKING NETWORK.
http://www.wikia.com/Video_Games
Seriously though. Kudos to them. Even in the wake of all the hottest new games, good old RunEscape is still up there.
There's a reason the RS wiki usually ranks among the top three wikia wikis (currently #1); it's freaking amazing.
Credits to the wikia mods and contributors, they're doing a great job. :)
We did and this is what we got:
Hi,
Thanks for contacting FANDOM.
The VSTF doesn't have the ability to close wikis, only FANDOM staff [does]. We would only take that kind o drastic step if we determine that the wiki violates our Terms of Use (http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use). If the wiki doesn't violate our rules, it won't be closed.
Best,
__ Sean M. FANDOM Community Support
This.
The job of these sites isn't to tell you what is objectively good, or objectively bad, it's to write favourable PR for money for a company.
Ever heard of Fandom? Used to be called Wikia, but now the holding company is called Wikia, Inc, while the main business is called FANDOM powered by Wikia.
The company has gone from a content hosting platform to a PR platform. Check out the link above; how many stories do you see with negative impressions of a product? Exactly. No honest reviews of products, people, services or companies, just well-spun PR extolling the virtues of whatever is the flavour of the month.
Honestly, I just use Wikia and make it private. Once I'm in there, I just make wiki pages for everything; locations, characters, storylines, etc. It's amazingly helpful when I can't remember something to just be able to jump back to another linked page and check the details. It's also helps me to connect my world in all sorts of ways that even I wouldn't have thought about.
I know there are some people who make offline wikis for their stuff using wikipedia-like templates. Personally I'm making an online wiki with wikia for my world, as there is just WAY too much to keep track of. It's the third wiki I've made so far for my shit and I'm using the other two (which I made at least two or three years ago) to help me fill in the data for characters and places I don't really remember all that well. If you're ready to put in the work it takes to make all your pages look nice, go ahead! I can link you to my wikias in PM if you'd like to see the ways I went about it.
If you wanna make an online one, it's this easy: http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki
Oh, I misunderstood you.
I'm not very knowledgeable about licensing, but I was under the impression that CC-BY-SA meant that other websites using the same license can freely copy anything.
http://www.wikia.com/Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
It says that credit needs to be provided, though. It's hard to say because the images aren't really property of the wiki, but property of Edmund.
Yeah not only this sub... The community in general is very active...
For example, these are the statistics for the wiki: http://www.wikia.com/WAM
Warframe is also regularly one of the top subreddits in gaming, though I can't find the relevant stats right now.
OOC: Maybe we could make a wikia, in which we create different articles about the things going on on the sub, all the adventures, the characters and other things one might need to know.
Then make your own Wikipedia - with blackjack, and hookers!
This is a serious answer. Anyone can start their own Wikia site with the same wiki formatting as Wikipedia. You can make one all to yourself to practice on. Here's the page:
It's linked under community.
Also SOE have some sort of a deal with Wikia.
http://www.wikia.com/Sony_Online_Entertainment_Breaks_New_Ground_With_First_Wikia_Official_Community
Thanks again for sharing your experience!
>I have been thinking a lot about psychic ethics. There need to be ethical guidelines. I have very clear feelings about the responsibilities associated with this ability set.
damn right! you should start a wiki on this... I'm sure others would contribute.
I first looked at Wikia for creating a free wiki, but it is entirely open to the public to contribute and edit content on your wiki there. I was paranoid about some troll finding my wiki and deleting everything. So I looked for one that is private, and that is where I found PBWorks.
Turns out PBWorks is so private that I'm having difficulty finding a read-only non-user link to share with you. The only way I know so far to show you is to create and email you a user account for to join my wiki as a contributor. PBWorks is really a commercial grade online workspace where there could be many users creating content, but I just use the free version for myself. I'm still somewhat new to it.
There is ShoutWiki which has free private wikis as well. I don't know of a way to transfer my work from PBWorks to this site. I think this may allow read-only users, but I haven't looked into it yet.
Sorry, but I don't think I can share mine at this time :(
Is there a Wikipedia type site/forum for all the aggregated/researched Wikileaks releases/info?? We could make one? I found a possible host site here http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki it's used for fandoms but close to a Wikipedia/enclyclopedia format
As others have observed (in this very posting by /u/murdercitymrk ) reddit isn't exactly an ideal place for organizing things. It's heavily focused on fresh/new and time. We do have a Wiki. But people are really in the habit of commenting without reading first - and who is going to do all the labor of organizing and correcting all these past and current clues ;)
We are at 2730 members right now, and if we post 8 new topics based on IP Addresses here - I think they will be ignored and get full of comments that people don't read again.
I'm all for /u/murdercitymrk IRC and other solutions. We can create new subs? A Wiki over on http://www.wikia.com - or a Wiki here on reddit and approve a couple dozen editors?
I created /r/MrRobotARGHelp - or you are welcome to create a virgin sub, offsite resources, work on the wiki for this sub, or just go do it anywhere. I created this sub out of frustration with the mainline /r/MrRobot having so much 'post without reading' repetition. And we really don't know how long they are going to keep adding content to the ARG - will it stall out between Season 2 to 3 or do they intend to keep priming it?
Browse literally ANY other wiki then go back to tibia wiki and it should work. Don't know why, but it works every time. Someone else posted this solution before. :P So go to like http://www.wikia.com/fandom and click something, anything.
If you mean that you're looking for something other than www.wikia.com, the only similar-but-different thing I'm aware of is Legends and Worlds -- it sounds fantasy-flavored, but it's for all genres.
The Vault was created from a mass emigration of users from Nukapedia, I think there was issues about Nukapeida being a wikia site or something, it was before my time though so I'm not sure of the exact causes.
So all the content from Nuka was ported over to The Vault. Since material posted to wikia is licensed as free use for all (X) they're not actually doing anything wrong, especially since a lot of it was written by them in the first place.
I use Wikia. It takes a bit to learn the coding to make any cool formatting changes (like making templates and infoboxes), but it's cool because you can create a page for each adventure and different wiki pages for each NPC, for the PC's themselves, and all that. It also allows the players to add things, too, if you want to allow them.
It's a public page that everyone can view and reference and I always reference the wiki when we all start a new session so we can recap what happened last session.
That's what it'd prolly have to be, though we could just start a wiki for the Chiefs and link it in the sidebar. That way we can add all those weird stats and other info we come across then tend to forget. It'd be an undertaking but it's a cool skill go learn and hopefully the whole fanbase would contribute. Could have pages for each player and relevant GIFs etc etc.
Kinda ambitious but...
http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki
Only thing we'd miss out on is the built in GIF previewer from RES.
This would probably be ideal. It lets you create your own wiki, multiple pages, links between pages, different formats, images, videos. It's very helpful if you're willing to put the time in.
Wasn't the idea just to start a wiki databases of corporation names with research on their good and bad deeds in the entry?
IF that was the idea, it doesn't take any real tech skill to start, I don't think. Just go here.
I use fandom, which is thick with adverts and a little clunky, but it gets the job done. You can't make it private, so anyone you share it with can come in and edit, so be warned in that regard.
But making pages is easy once you've started your wiki and their editors aren't too hard to get the hang of. I've been using it for over a year and half to run one of my campaigns wikis
While I don't have a podcast, it sounds like you want an alternative to Google Docs that still maintains the ease of sharing while also giving a sense of organization. I would recommend creating your own private wiki for your podcast that you can share with your collaborators to plan for upcoming episodes. As far as free wiki farm websites are concerned, I would recommend Miraheze over Wikia, since Miraheze is ad-free unlike Wikia.
I'm prob not going to do it, but if you want your guide to be added to the wiki (or parts of it) it helps if you add copyright information to it. The Elona wikia wiki uses CC-BY-SA. ( http://www.wikia.com/Licensing ). If you want people to be able to use parts of your guide on the wiki.
(Of course, you might also explicitly NOT want people to use your guide on the wiki, or use parts of it. In that case, making it clear in a copyright/license section helps).
Anyway, thanks for making the guide.
THE JEWLLUMINAZIS ARE CONTROLLING DAE BANKS????????
Go to http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki and just create one. I made one for my own world which eventually devolved into shitposting. Made a second one recently to test some of the features like infoboxes and planning for organization until I make a third one to be a serious wiki.
But remember that once you pick a name for your wiki, that wiki's taken forever unless you can contact an admin of the site to delete the wiki. So I'd advise having your first wiki be more of a prototype to try it out, like [worldname]-test.wikia.com, instead of your actual intended name.
If you want to start a collaborative effort, I imagine either a fully-fledged community wiki like wikia or a collaborative publishing platform like gitbook could work pretty well.
I feel like there's a lot of data out there (e.g. the Notes for a Flavor @ e-liquid-recipes.com) that would be valuable as well. Maybe aggregating (or just cross-linking) further readings like that would help me too.
Come to think of it, data mining this sub (and/or e-liquid-recipes) could yield some very interesting results as well....
http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape_Wiki - 31,692 pages, and ranks #1 among all wikia wikis.
If you wish to talk about RS with other players, this subreddit is the best place imo.
Fair enough. To be fair, a large portion of the time required to set a wiki up is just typing up the pages for different things. Tweaking the formatting and templates and making things pretty adds most of the rest of the time overhead, but those can be skipped if you care more about just making the data available and want to skip on the fancy sidebar panes and such.
If you just want something quick and easy to communicate your world info to your players, you might want to just make a small Wikia wiki and just enter the data there. That way you don't have to worry about hosting and running the server, just entering text into the web pages and any formatting you want to do.
Cool. One easy option would be to use this subreddits wiki functionality, but it is disabled at the moment and tbh I don't know if it's very easy to use. So maybe we just use wikia?
I like the idea, what if we made a wikia?
I too find certain pieces of information missing from a lot of drug/rc databases, the solubility one being most annoying. What solvent, what ratio for saturation.... have to do a lot of digging for most substances to find this stuff, and even then its only anecdotal
His facts are completely straight. The entire wikia network operates under the CC-BY-SA license and individual wikis have no individual say in whether or not they want their content to be cited or not. It must be cited and will be cited or else it'll be taken down when it is found. They don't get to choose whether other people can use it either, because it's free to use provided that the citation is proper. Take a look here for further info: http://www.wikia.com/Licensing#Using_Wikia_content
well, http://www.wikia.com/ seems to be a favorite for some of the wikis I've seen in the comic/cartoon world. looks like the dota2 wiki is via gamepedia which seems to have the option to suggest a wiki set up but not any open option to just flat out create one. Thing is, this would be something a whole group of people may need to be interested in. I think its a good idea and would be interested in contributing but its not a project I personally want to at the head of. Maybe post a suggestion in a new thread and see if people want to back it.
Instead of trying to use reddit's awful markdown formatting to build some sort of wikified post collection, I would suggest you to either wait for the launch of reddit's official wiki system (if you really want it to do within reddit) or just create a free wiki on Wikia.
In exchange for yourgame.wikia.com, and free wiki hosting, they'll put a few adverts on your pages. It's a popular wiki site and I see it used a lot.
Also pulled it in Season 1 Episode 1 when Carter gets her first look at the DHD.
" Amazing. This is what was missing from the dig at Giza. This is how they controlled it. It took us 15 years and 3 supercomputers to MacGyver a system for the gate on Earth. Look how small it is! "
<strong>Dr. Jackson</strong>: This is crazy. We don't know what could be there waiting for us when we come through.
<strong>Col. Maybourne</strong>: Don't you worry, boys. That's why the SG-3 Marines are comin' with. You can count on us to watch your backsides.
<strong>Dr. Jackson</strong>: Actually, it was more my front side I was worried about.
Stargate SG-1 The Broca Divide
Do you keep a session log/recap? I've used http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki?uselang=en create a campaign history and post session summaries so everyone can refresh their memory since our sessions are only once a month but last about 4 hours. I use the TV series template since it's basically the same thing as a TV show with seasons and episodes. I've had some players create character pages to share their characters backstories.
looks good! don't forget, each title has it's own flavor of the logo (like black flag, or AC3), which you could use in place of the generic one in red if you chose to.
I'd recommend checking out different personal wiki software. If you want a public one, Wikia is pretty good. Tiddlywiki is a wiki-like thing that I like and use for my projects.
Go here:
http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki
You can add as much or as little information as you want. Pictures, too, if you've got them. I find the interface to be very user-friendly and intuitive.
That is a fair point. Honestly I'm not completely sure how effective it will be as I don't even see it when I'm browsing through other wikis. There is some information here, though I am not sure if it answers all of your possible questions.
Honestly the Spotlight is just one part of a much larger effort to bring worm and the parahumans back to the forefront that it has earned. Check out the Wikia ranking score Worm doesn't show up on most wikia searchs because it isn't even in the top 300 for a particualer catogory but it used to be in the top 30. With all the people coming in recently Worm has a better chance of getting recognition and therefore more readers and editors.
Check if the specific Wikia site has any kind of licensing arrangement and follow those terms. http://www.wikia.com/Licensing has some more info on that.
A derivative work has it's own copyright. For example, putting a song into a movie doesn't mean that the songwriter gets the movie's copyright. It means that anyone who wants to license the movie needs to license the song as well. This is usually handled by the movie producer paying for distribution rights to the song. The performance of the song itself is a derivative work and the songwriter has to give permission (and get paid) in order for the performance to be recorded.
So, the screenshots are a derivative work of the game. They're likely fair use, so their respective authors don't need any permission from the game dev.
However, if you were to use the screenshots in your work, you probably can't claim fair use, as the substantiality is pretty much the whole work (the screenshot), and the effect upon the potential market (for the screenshot) is that you are using the work in the same exact manner. I wouldn't expect someone to go after you for copying screenshots, but the law is that they can.
Anyway, to protect yourself against this worst case scenario, either check if the screenshots are under some Creative Commons license (they probably are) and follow those terms, or generate your own screenshots.
I actually didn't know it had one at first until someone made the suggestion for reddit above. However, it seems fairly limited, or at least badly documented: http://www.wikia.com/api/v1/#!/Articles/getAsSimpleJson_get_0. It seems it can only get article details and information rather than actual article content, I tried a couple of the requests out myself.
Pro tip: We have the #1 ranked Wiki (according to this); take advantage of it. The vast majority of all information you'll ever need to know about the game can be found on there. As it relates to your question, here's a list of all the melee weapons in the game. Click on any of them for equipment stats, sources, cost, etc. Or maybe you're looking to make some cash to afford that weapon you've got your eye on; this one is a list of tons of money making methods, attached with guides and requirements for each. Use your imagination and the wiki fills in the rest.
I think it is a good idea, just try not to get too addicted :3
Also, there is a runescape wiki is one of the top five wikis viewed at the moment. There is alot to overlook and do, and can become overwhelming if you let it.
As a Node.js developer, I'd be happy to provide you with a full write-up, for a small consulting fee of course :)
But maybe you're better off using an existing, hosted service. Would Wikia suit your needs? Here's an example wiki made with Wikia for Battlefield 1.
Setting up and managing a server can be difficult, so even with initial setup instructions you'll need to do some more in-depth research to understand how to keep your website up. I'm not aware of any full-service Smallest Federated Wiki hosts, but there are more options out there than just Wikia.
assuming by: Here and Here i'de assume The website its self is being bombarded with them due to Fandom's integration.
I see poor performance on a LOT of sites that use their API, idk why exactly, but it's a common factor.
Sadly.. it's out of the Runescape Wikia's Page's Control, so not much can be done for the specific guides on there (unless transferred to another site of course)
There are many services out there. Three:
PBWorks (free with some limits): http://www.pbworks.com/wikis.html
WikiSpaces (30 days free trial, $50/yr): http://www.wikispaces.com/
Wikia (free, but ads): http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki (but, ads)
Wow your grandmother put a lot of work into that! Very cool. As you post more and more it's probably going to get pretty chaotic -- maybe make an index of the 16 categories somewhere (wikia would probably work well), and when you post a new recipe add it under the category with a link to the IG post. That would probably make it pretty easy to navigate.
No they don't. They use CC BY-SA 3.0 which is literally the same copyright wikipedia uses
It's more a matter of patience. I don't care much if he has an article; I'm explaining why he doesn't currently.
"It's user edited, so it's okay to be bad" is pretty much the antithesis of crowdsourcing. The entire concept is to perform better than a small team in an ivory tower by distributing the workload across a huge group of people. This largely works because bad content is pruned constantly. Wikipedia is not intended to be 'constantly updated and contemporary'; there are policies in place about including random news, and updating current events within articles. It's generally not considered a priority.
I don't know why you think I'm assuming articles about Dan will be poorly written. That has probably been the case for previous articles, but again, the problem is that there is a lack of reliable sources. This makes it both impossible to ascertain his notability by Wikipedia's standards, and makes it incredibly difficult to verify any information included in his page. If the article can be provided with good sources, it would meet Wikipedia's requirements.
The last statement is not a complete description. You're correct that Wikipedia doesn't want "How", but they also don't want a lot of content of a non-Encyclopedic nature. Think about TV Tropes--almost all of its information is who/what/when/where, and can be referred back to the original media, but is very much not in line with the goals of Wikipedia. Take a look at the other projects of the Wikimedia foundation, or take a look at the various wikis on Wikia; there are a lot of "who/what/when/where" projects that aren't appropriate for Wikipedia. Wiktionary is a dictionary, Wikisource quotes documents, Wikibooks attempts to crowdsource books (largely textbook style), Wikinews consolidates news.
This is pretty interesting! Never heard of these wikis. NamuWiki seems pretty huge with just under 300,000 articles. The Korean Wikipedia looks slightly larger at 320,000 articles, but you're right that NamuWiki appears to go into more specifics for some subjects (for better or worse).
For English speakers, Wikipedia is by far the largest and most comprehensive wiki for general information. If you want to find wikis for specific topics, Wikia is also popular. Wikia has a bunch of separate wikis on different topics, from wikis on video games to movies to TV shows to companies.
That is not a screen shot of Wikipedia but a screenshot of Wikia, those are two different websites.
But that's kinda besides the point, often when you get a website looking like that it can help to clear your browser cache, follow one of the guides on this page to clear the cache in your browser and see if that helps.
Wales was the co-founder for Wikia.com.
The Wiki affiliated with gamergate.me is the one without any connections to Wales or Wikipedia other than perhaps the open-source code, if I understand correctly.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
Simply addictive. :)
For the fans.
For fun facts.
EDIT: Just adding more websites :)
I always start by building a map. You can use these to help make your basic maps, and then I like to add on lore from there. It's hard to say where to start; it's quite up to how you like to do it. Use tools like Wikia or TerraChronica to organize your lore.
Do it how you want; there's no real 'system'. Just do your best, have fun, and ask questions! Welcome to worldbuilding.
What you're describing would be a pro-gun wiki. You could also start a collaborative pro-gun FAQ and host it somehow. I have a blog and would be willing to host it but it wouldn't be easy for everyone to edit like a wiki would.
Check out http://www.wikia.com/Wikia, they offer free hosting and everyone can contribute.
Well, I've had a look at Kompozer in Ubuntu and it's very similar to BlueGriffon but still not 'simple' enough for the likes of me. Basically a good solution here would be a Zim-like application with full HTML support but unfortunately, as weedeater64 stated, nothing like this seems to exist - well, to our knowledge at least.
So, for the moment I don't know what to do or how to advance, I suppose there are a few possibilities:
Continue with Zim and use 'image files' to populate the notebook with tables etc. My main concern with this approach would be the size of the notebook - bear in mind that one table (.png) imported to Zim roughly doubles the size of the notebook.
MediaWiki or something similar. This appeals to me more and more because it seems a lot better for a collaborative effort, but I am unsure how this would be achieved. Would this need to be hosted on a private server or could it be hosted for free (or cheap) online?
How about a Reddit Wiki? Would this work and allow anyone to contribute easily as the course progresses? It would be nice to keep all of this on Reddit I guess but am I just taking this too far from the original notebook idea?
Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Criticisms?
A buddy of mine has been using Wikia for a while to compile his ideas and writings, and I've recently taking to doing the same. If you can figure out all of the nifty things it does (e.g., Special:SpecialPages), the site is very powerful and will make managing and organizing your world far easier than any other method. It will also allow you to share it with others or bring in other collaborators with having to explain your super-special-personal way you format your information.
If you don't necessarily want everything to be public or you want to be able to keep your unfinished ideas away from the finalized stuff I would recommend a regular text file or spreadsheet. I use Google docs to organize my inspiration or future plans as well as keeping my story ideas together.
Hi.
I’m not sure if I am being helpful with this at all, but you can make your data more accessible by starting a free wikia community for it and creating the most basic reference pages there.
You can also create an image map on your Wikipedia user page and link to it — that way others will be able to access and copy the reference titles on fly.
Also, I’m very glad that you guys are spending your time to deal with this — my school years where I had to stay awake and in a mostly fixed sitting position for so long and half asleep were possibly the worst period of my life so far.
I remember at the end of Food Inc. (which I highly recommend) the founder of Stonyfield Farm is at an organic convention pointing out which brands are owned by which Conglomerates. Coincidentally, Stonyfield was bought by Groupe Danone.
But, back to what he said, he made a good point about why he was talking to Walmart about stocking Stoneyfield yogurt. He said something like, he knows these execs haven't had a change of heart about ethics, they just know consumers are going for more organic, sustainable products.
I don't know if should stop buying these products or not. Corps obviously see the value in organics, as we can see. I do know that buying local foods is better, if you can afford it. I buy meat from an organic farm, and milk from my local Amish market, but many people can't do that. Food that is worse for you and for everyone is cheap. This point is essentially the crux of Food Inc.
As for the site, I've been looking around, and we could start a Wikia. Or just use it as an interim site until we get a real website made.
http://www.wikia.com/Wikia - a free website for making a wiki, pretty sure there are loads of these but this is the first i found, anyone used these or know which are best / worst - also a list of some alternative might be useful for added data security
^^^This is horrible and garish to use, seems much more limited than a proper wiki - maybe i just need to change some settings? anyone know where to find a proper wiki without paying to hosting the code on a server somewhere?
take a look at wikia.com
it's free and you might get some cross-traffic from other wikis there