Five wikis - what’s the connection?

Posted by Angela Beesley on June 20, 2007 (Wiki, Wikia, Wikimedia)

Wikia logos
What do the Wikia sites on events, POV editorials, photography, the Polish RPG Wolsung, and the Fallout series of games have in common?

Add a guess in the comments.

9 Comments

  1. Phil Boswell said,

    June 21, 2007 at 10:42

    New skins?

    There seems to be some irregularity over whether i get the “new default skin” when I log in: on a couple I did, on another I was presented with Monobook.

    There doesn’t seem to be a preference item for “whatever the current default is”.

  2. Angela Beesley said,

    June 21, 2007 at 11:49

    Hi Phil. Good guess, but that’s not it. Wikia does have new skins which are slowly being rolled out to all wikis. You can choose them in your preferences or via a cookie if you’re not logged in. Until the roll-out is complete, different wikis have different defaults and new users might see a different skin to existing users.

    A clue is in one of the categories for this blog post.

  3. Jérôme said,

    June 22, 2007 at 16:58

    Has it something to do with interwiki links being possible from/to Wikimedia projects/Wikipedia?

  4. Erik Möller said,

    June 22, 2007 at 17:23

    This is too easy. I’ll give the rest of you a hint: Who started them?

  5. Angela Beesley said,

    June 22, 2007 at 18:14

    Jérôme - no. None of these wikis are specifically in Wikimedia’s interwiki map. Only WikiFur and Wookieepedia are.

  6. pfctdayelise said,

    June 23, 2007 at 9:02

    Ooh. they were all founded by people who are currently running for the WMF Board. :)

  7. Angela Beesley said,

    June 23, 2007 at 9:09

    Well done pfctdayelise. :)

    The Events wiki was founded by Erik, POV was founded by Danny, Fallout and Wolsung were founded by Ausir, and Photography was founded by Kat. All are candidates for the 2007 election.

  8. RelentlessRecusant said,

    July 18, 2007 at 16:34

    Dear pfctdayelise,

    Smooth guess. :-)

    Cheers,

    RelentlessRecusant

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