It occurs to me that many fictional worlds have superb wikis devoted to them over in Wikia. These Wikis are often doing exactly what we're trying to avoid doing in Wikipedia - providing large amounts of in- universe information. May I humbly suggest that articles on topics that are covered by such Wikia should have boxes at the bottom similar to the Wikiquote boxes that direct users to these wikis for an in-universe perspective. That is to say, clear, featured links to other projects that host the information we've decided isn't suitable for Wikipedia. (Noting that the reason for its unsuitability has nothing to do with its reliability, and everything to do with our focus.) Obviously this involves a bit of a paradigm shift, in that we would be linking to projects that are not, strictly speaking, sister projects. But if we're serious about moving this stuff out of Wikipedia (And I sincerely believe we should be serious about it if we want to have high-quality out-of-universe articles on Wikipedia, since to date nobody has managed to write an article that does both) we need to provide the people who use Wikipedia for this sort of information a clear alternative - not "go away and find somewhere else," but "go to this project over here." Are there any reasons someone with a good knowledge of template-fu shouldn't whip something like this up? -Phil _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Obviously this involves a bit of a paradigm shift, in that we would be linking to projects that are not, strictly speaking, sister projects.

Obviously this involves a bit of a paradigm shift, in that we would be linking to projects that are not, strictly speaking, sister projects. But if we're serious about moving this stuff out of Wikipedia (And I sincerely believe we should be serious about it if we want to have high-quality out-of-universe articles on Wikipedia, since to date nobody has managed to write an article that does both) we need to provide the people who use Wikipedia for this sort of information a clear alternative - not "go away and find somewhere else," but "go to this project over here."