On 5/30/07, SonOfYoungwood(a)aol.com <SonOfYoungwood(a)aol.com> wrote:
Later on in the article, Jimbo also says something
that me and several
others, such as the rest of the Final Fantasy WikiProject and User:Seraphimblade,
have been advocating:
"[Wikia] is not Wikipedia, right. It's my new organization with a completely
separate website. Basically part of the way we're framing it is that
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia is all the rest of the library. So it's
anything people want to collaborate on."
I urge people to encourage the transwiki of cruft. Cruft isn't things like
articles on games or the entire cast as a whole; by cruft, I mean lists of
weapons, armor, locations, and other stuff that goes into excessive detail and
does not have a chance to balance in-universe with out-of-universe. The Final
Fantasy WikiProject has been doing it for a while, and we're moving right
along. Granted, this is off the topic of "reliable sources", but it's
still a
good point.
Honestly, for me to support the transwiki of "cruft" the Wikia are
going to have to be integrated a lot tighter with WP. I have no
problem with spinning it off, but we can't let the plot summaries,
etc. that people value Wikipedia for be lost. On some random internet
thread about Wikipedia, people were complaining that Wikipedia is
becoming just like a dead tree encyclopedia and abandoning the plot
summaries in the name of "contextualizing the work." Which is
prossibly what we want, but you have to have the other stuff _very_
easily accessible. Not as in one external link to the Wikia at the
bottom of the article, as in our links to spun-off articles at the top
of a section dealing with that facet of the topic. ~~~~
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