Forum:SH:Wikia Spotlight

Hey guys. I just wanted to give everyone the head’s up that Star Wars Fanon is going to be spotlighted by Wikia sometime in the next 2-3 months. Wikia Spotlights “are images that appear on each Wikia page that link to other Wikia sites. The spotlights are created by Wikia staff, and run for a couple of weeks.” You guys will have undoubtedly noticed these on the bottom of your screens, where you will typically see images for and links to other wikis.

For example, the ones I see now are for the Dragon Age wiki, the True Blood wiki, and the Pixar wiki. If you’re using Monaco, you will also see a spotlight widget off to your left. The image I see there now, for example, is Gagapedia, the....wow...the Lady Gaga wiki. Anyway, you guys may all see something different, since they rotate through a couple other wikis at a time, but that’s what the Wikia spotlight is.

I nominated SWF to be a Wikia Spotlight, and the nomination was approved by Merrystar, the Wikia Helper who’s in charge of the spotlight process. We’ll be able to see an image and link to SWF in about 2-3 months, which is the general amount of time it’s taken for wikis to be spotlighted lately. I can let you all know about this again once we’re actually spotlighted.

Now this is a great way of advertising ourselves throughout Wikia, thereby bringing in a lot of new users. Since we’re really putting a focus on the community now, this is a very good thing. We’ll need to work hard to keep these new users involved once they get here. I’m sure we’ll do just fine with that.

If you have any questions about this, let me know. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 17:42, November 15, 2009 (UTC)