Talk:Fandom (website)/Archive 1

message: I Have a Wiki called the Ultimate In Living Color Guide wiki. And i'v been looking for a way to make it larger(like the star wars wiki or unencyclopedia)I only have one wiki running(My other wiki the mets one i closed)and i would like to expand it how can i expand it and how can i get it to be recognized. Also I am having trouble putting up my logo for my wiki metlover21 4:55 14, Febuary 2006
:This question has been answered at Wikia. Angela. 04:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need Help to expand

message: This article lists Uncyclopedia as the most visited Wikia, but the Uncyclopedia article says that Uncyclopedia is hosted by Wikia, but not as a Wikia. So is Uncyclopedia a Wikia or not?--Alhutch 02:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it isn't a Wikia. It's a sister project of Wikia. We don't currently have accurate public stats on the most visited Wikia, so this section can't be verified anymore. It should probably be removed. Of the wikis we're tracking via Google adsense (which isn't all of them, but probably includes the top 5), the top 5 for February were Star Wars, Dofus, Muppet, Furry, and Doom, but those stats need a password. Angela. 00:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the list since it was unverifiable (and innaccurate). Angela. 05:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncyclopedia? 

message: Following the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Campaigns Wikia, I've proposed a merge of the two articles. Luna Santin 01:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have merged the information to both this page and to Jimmy Wales. Article can now be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Roninbk (talk • contribs) 01:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Geez, I was gonna go back and fix it, if the bot hadn't caught it first... --RoninBKETC 01:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Campaigns Wikia]] 

message: This should probably mention the investment by Amazon.com (press release) as well as Wikia's recent acquisitions of the Marvel Database Project (which was deleted) and ArmchairGM (ref:techcrunch). There are also errors in this which WP:COI probably prevents me fixing: Wikia uses advertising from a number of providers now, not just AdSense, so the first paragraph is wrong. The part about the GFDL is also wrong since we accept a number of GNU and CC licenses, not just the GFDL. The red links in the "Active Wikia sites" section should be removed since it's likely those articles would be deleted if they were created. Angela. 12:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: "On the mailinglist it is discussed to use open search engine Yacy, which is a p2p search engine for websites."
:This was on the Wikimedia mailing list and has nothing to do with Wikia. Angela. 13:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Got it. I thought it looked weird.  --  Zanimum 14:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More errors

message: An error:
In the first paragraph, it is said that wikia spent $5.74 on such and such.  It should probably be "$5.74 million" or something.kilaz_e_mastafu 19:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the figure is accurate, albeit somewhat misleading. GreenReaper 19:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How is it misleading?  --  Zanimum 18:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In that they sure spent more of their time putting the word out than would be accounted for by $5.74 - that's probably just their Google AdWords costs. And besides, they're not counting our AdWords costs, which are actually more. :-) GreenReaper 22:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly wasn't $5.74 million! It seems a silly thing to quote considering how many factors it isn't taking into account. Angela. 02:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could you ask Gil how he got that number? I took it to mean advertising for Wikia Inc, not any of the projects, not public relations, not any of the equipment used in creating the advertising. Would that be correct?  --  Zanimum 17:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I could, but an email from Gil wouldn't be a reliable source for this article, so I don't see how it's relevant. Angela. 23:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

text: It doesn't matter how much Wikia spent.  The article, correctly, reports what they said they spent.  If you find a quote from a some expert that calls that a lie, you can put it in. Superm401 - Talk 07:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't matter if it's true as long as it was written in a newspaper. Oh dear. Angela. 20:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now you know how we feel. ;-) GreenReaper 22:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  When I was asking for clarification earlier, I was intending to write a two paragraph blurb on Wikinews about Wikia announcing how low its spending was, and use that as a source.  --  Zanimum 14:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text: We have a little policy here called Verifiability, not truth.  It means you don't say things just because you think they're true.  The article doesn't, and shouldn't, say the newspaper is right.  It also shouldn't say it's wrong just because the figure doesn't make sense to us.  That's called original research; it's not allowed even if the original research sounds right.  Angela, if you really want to clarify this have Wikia put out the updated figure in its next press release. Superm401 - Talk 07:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: $5.74

message: I removed the following interwiki links from the article:
* fa:و�Oeک�Oeا
* ru:�'икия
* yi:�·�·יקיע
There are some seriously bad characters in these links, causing them to be visible (at least in my browser, Safari). Can someone with more international experience than I have go to those editions of Wikipedia to help fix the links? EVula // talk // ☯ // 06:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and nevermind, a bot just fixed it. Hot damn. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funky international wikilinks 

message: Just now I came across info on OpenServing from http://www.openserving.com/ and http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Openserving and it seems quite similar to Wikia which also provides facility to create Wiki Format web site on Wikia Servers, so how are they are different, can anyone pls list the differences. Vjdchauhan 13:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How is OpenServing different from Wikia

message: Can someone clarify the location of Wikia's headquarters?  According to this  the company moved from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Menlo Park, Calif.  Since then it seems that the company has moved again, a few towns north on the San Francisco Peninsula to San Mateo.  When did this occur?  Also, it doesn't seem that there is more specific information about the location of the offices.  I suppose that as a private company, there is no reason for them to divulge this information, but Alexa does seem to have the location of the original offices (which may or may not still be valid) :
200 2nd Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 
(727) 388-6691
-71.202.62.11 09:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The exact location is private information that has no place in an article. 2nd Ave S is not an office address and Wikia never owned an office in Menlo Park. The move to San Mateo was approximately November 2006, but please don't use this talk page as a source. If that's not been written elsewhere, it shouldn't be added to the article. Angela. 04:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries, it's been written here. GreenReaper 21:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of Headquarters