Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20150530204046/@comment-24108228-20150609155219

Mojman456 wrote: NoBanana wrote: For this to work, we would need to expand into a game that already has a wiki community, or at least huge potential to get one, which limits our options. Otherwise we're just creating new pages. What do you mean?

So you plan on assmilating it? Besides Survival:Beginnings wiki, what about survival 404, 202, 101, Arena, ITF, Finale, etc. Those are in particularlly worse shape than Survival:Beginnings wiki. A few only have 3 or 4 pages, and some aren't even relavant. The idea behind merging with another wiki (say, the Survival:Beginnings wiki) is that we both have a small community, and by merging, the communities effectively combine to make a "super-community", and instead of two small communities working on seperate wikis, we have one big community working on both wikis. It's a bit like the basic concept of a wiki (working together towards a common goal), but on a larger scale and also broadening the subject at the same time.

The reason why we don't do it with wikis in worse shape (say the Arena or 202 wikis) is that, although it broadens our subject, that's not the end goal. I guess in the far future having a mega-survival wiki would be cool, but right now we're looking for an injection of community members. Those wikis don't actually have any community members, so organising a merge with them wouldn't help us short term.

As for your point about assimilation, I guess you could look at it like that. I saw it as a merge, but given the community size difference I guess you have a point that we might sort of "Eat" the other wiki. What will happen if we go ahead is up for speculation, although before we do anything we'll likely want consent from everyone here that this should be the next move, there's other options too. This is just the one we've explored furthest.