Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-658634-20131216220021/@comment-5130940-20131217203347

BlackSmith wrote:

You are making a quite big leap of faith making that kind of assumption. I have all civilizations (and their extension) in my shelf, I have also all Fallout's (except that wannabee tactics), M&M's, BF's, Deus Ex's, JA's, Sim's (with most extension), Orion's, HL's, Ultima's, BG's, HOMM's, Diablo's and I don't use any of the combination wikis. Hence stop making assumption of all using them and state that you are guessing. Side of that no, its not convenient to have them all in one wiki. Specially when transition from wiki to wiki is done so easily as w:c: hyperlink prefix.

They contain either misleading information, irrelevant information, are filled with pages that are created because some other game has same named article, requires pages containing 6 in case of ES or as many as 13(!) subsections for each of the games or creating six same named articles with suffix, templates need take account other games, and so on.

I do not understand how you consider having six separate, completely independent wikis (aside from "staff" and users) more of a burden than having more templates with different names (each specifying the game within the template names) in a single wiki. Splitting the wiki would require much more work to be done in replicating the settings from one wiki to the next, and also in having any changes mimicked in other wikis' settings.

Also, in many cases the end result of what you are suggesting seems to simply be moving the game name from the article's name to the wiki name, as such as the following: Leather Armor (Skyrim) w:c:skyrim:Leather Armor

There is hardly a difference in the case of articles. If we had a higher capacity for custom namespaces, however, this problem would be easily resolved. We would use a similar structure to that of the "other site", which, I believe, is better than ours.

For templates, new ones will have to be created either way (single wiki vs. multiple) for each major game, since the mechanics are not exactly the same between games.

On the note of "misleading information, irrelevant information": The link you provided me (Leather Armor) does not have "irrelevant" or "misleading" information. It is a page that simply acts as a list. You can read more about disambiguation pages here.

Instead of having one wiki with 15,000 articles, we have 6 (maybe 7 - one for lore) with on average ~3,000 each? Unless there is a major difference on the backend side (which a Wikia staff member or one highly experienced in wiki management and databases), there is no benefit to doing this (especially in the case of setting duplication). Also, if you are suggesting that having smaller ones would be better, then why has Wikipedia not split? The English Wikipedia has more than 4.4 million articles, but I do not remember any serious discussion of splitting the wiki by topic every emerging.