Forum:Wikia blog articles

Good morning! Wikia is launching wiki blog articles today. Wiki blogs are a new type of article that have a single author and can be voted and commented on. Some examples of how we expect Wikia communities to use these are fan fiction, personal opinion articles, community announcements, Top 10 Lists, Q&A, etc. Naturally, how all this is used comes under your own wiki policies, so it's up to the community what people are allowed to write about. In addition, the update introduces a new banner on user-related pages that includes an avatar and user links.

You can learn more about how to use blogs on your Wiki at Help:Blog article.

You are one of the first wikis to see this feature, due to your stronger focus on the users of the wiki. As you try it out, we want your feedback! We'd love to know how we can improve it for you :)

Thanks, Kirkburn (talk) 11:20, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

(Cross posted at User blog:Kirkburn/Wikia blog articles!, leave comments at either location!)


 * This is a disgusting and shocking new feature which I refuse to use and have any sort of interaction with. Why are we forced to have this feature? I'll be speaking with Wikia staff about asking us if we want in future, as I sure as hell do not. --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 17:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

"...Some examples of how we expect Wikia communities to use these are fan fiction..."

- Kirkburn

;_; I think I'm going to love this.-- Nightmare 975  17:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Tom, chill the you-know-what out. If you don't like it, then don't use it. You don't have to get worked up over something that's optional for you to use. That said, while I could see some use for this, I'm worried about the abuse that could be carried out with something like this. It could turn it into social networking and people could begin using this more than they do articles. Really, I think the only two options would be to not have this feature, or to set up a strict set of rules for the use of it. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 17:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd go with allowing only fan-fiction.-- Nightmare 975  17:47, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

That's redundant, though. Fan fiction can be posted in the article namespace. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 17:57, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

This would be great for some Production Notes I've been planning for my photonovel. Sort of like John Jackson Miller's blogs on farawaypress.com. Drewton  ( Drewton's Holocron ) 18:02, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That's actually not a bad idea. We could always restrict this to Behind the scenes purposes and such. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 18:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Production notes sound good. How about for rants? About ten people have rants on here that could be moved to the blogspace. --Victortalk 18:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Special:CreateBlogPage and Special:CreateBlogListingPage are the two new Special pages added by this, right? We could use this for role-playing, although I believe that there are better sites for role-playing, especially since this is an encyclopedia and not a Forum/ Blog. In addition, how do we remove comments from vandals? Is there a way to limit this function to Autoconfirmed users. Also, can Blog pages be protected in the same way as other pages? We should also modify What Star Wars Fanon is not. -- Michaeldsuarez [[Image:Sabersmilygreend.jpg|20px]] ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 18:19, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Allowing comments is optional, I believe, and perhaps administrators can delete comments, although blogs are "personal" so only an admin and the creator may edit their blog. --Victortalk 18:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I actually like the behind the scenes idea, perhaps we should vote on this, to make it a part of the MoS?-- Nightmare 975  18:37, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * No role-playing whatsoever. This is meant to be an encyclopedia, not a role-playing site. If you want role-playing, go to SWRP.Com. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 18:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Remember, it's entirely up to you how you use it - I'd absolutely expect you to want to enact policies about it, just like for any other namespace. If it doesn't work for your wiki, there's no requirement to have it :) It's good for us to find out what uses you might make, and if there's tweaks we can make which result in it being more suitable for that purpose. Some answers to questions: I think most questions should be answered by the help page. Also, vandal comments can be removed via copying their direct link (which you can see on the RC list and the user contribs), and adding ?redirect=no to the end. It's nor perfect, but we're still working on it. Kirkburn (talk) 18:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Edit: I just created Blog:Recent posts which shows a list of all recent posts on the wiki. Kirkburn (talk) 18:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Are we supposed to not be able to edit our own blogs? Or are you still working out the kinks?-- Nightmare 975  19:02, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You should be able to edit your own posts ... you're having trouble doing so? Kirkburn (talk) 19:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I dunno. We'll see how it works out. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 21:54, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It says I don't have permission to edit User_Blog posts.-- Nightmare 975  22:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)