Featured Wikian: CzechMate
Welcome to the next exciting installment of our Featured Wikian Interviews. Today we're speaking with CzechMate.
Wikia: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
- CzechMate: Well, Where do I start? I live in beautiful Sydney (I used to live in London). At 3 years old, I got Crohns disease (A chronic illness, which cannot be cured, as of yet). Life is pretty easy though. I do have 8 rabbits and a cat, Rocky, living the Australian Dream :P
Wikia: How did you first discover Wikia?
- CzechMate: I discovered Wikia from my love of Star Wars. The first wiki I visited was Wookieepedia, But then found the LEGO Wiki, Brickipedia, which has been my main wiki. I also discovered the Wiki by Ebay, believe it or not. I was looking for a Star Wars LEGO set, and I saw a …
New ways to show Video on your wiki
Back in September we announced that we are working hard to offer and integrate more videos into Wikia. Having videos on your wiki is a nice way to highlight content and give people the chance to really experience your wiki's topic. There are a couple of interesting ways we've have been working on to display videos and we wanted to share them with you here.
We wanted to be able to show more than one video on a main page without taking up too much space, so we started experimenting with a randomizer. This code lets you feature 1 main video, with 3 smaller videos displayed below. When the page is refreshed, the 3 smaller videos are also refreshed, offering 3 new and interesting videos.
Check it out in action below, and find the code for doing it …
Promote your Wiki
One of the most common questions we get here at Wikia is, how do I promote my wiki? We know that wikis do better with more contributors, so today I am going to offer you a few ways you can get the word out about your wiki on Wikia. We know you'll have even more ideas, so please share them with us in the comments below.
The Wikia home page is a great way to get your community noticed by a wide range of people. From everyday editors, to newbies just finding Wikia. Any admin can go to Special:Promote on their wiki, fill out the sections, and have their wiki added to the growing list of communities being highlighted on Wikia.com.
For more information on how to do this visit the help page.
"Get promoted" in the Community section on hub pages. This…
Featured Wikian: Jspoelstra
Welcome to a special edition of the Featured Wikian blog. We're going a little off script here, and featuring Jspoelstra, a user who has made OVER 100,000 edits on the Fallout Wiki. Check out his blog here announcing this accomplishment and explains everything about how and why he's had 100k edits in 100 weeks.
Wikia: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
- Jspoelstra: Well, the account as I created it in November 2010 stands for my real name; first name starting with J, the rest is my surname. I’m from the Netherlands, northern part of the country, where I live in a small village. I’m a reserved guy, about twice the age as your average gamer. I’m single and due to some personal problems in the past I need to take things easy nowadays and avoid …
Featured Wikian: Dser
Welcome to the next exciting installment of our Featured Wikian Interviews. Today we're speaking with Dser, Founder of the Currency Wiki and a self proclaimed CSS and HTML guru.
Wikia: Tell us a little bit about yourself...just some general information about you.
- Dser: I am an American high school student, numismatist, exonumist, and notaphilist, meaning I collect coins, exonumia (coin-like objects), and paper money. In addition, I am also interested in cars, firearms, and archery. I learned css online in a short period of time, and am looking into learning more Java and JavaScript.
Wikia: How did you first discover Wikia? :
- Dser: In 2008, I stumbled across Wikia while looking for video game cheats. When I saw the state one of the wikis was in, I…