Forum:What about external wiki

I've been doing some thinking, but perhaps we should come up with a policy on what circumstances we may list an external wiki in the series template. This isn't anything new, although there are plenty of wiki thinking of moving to other hosting due to the new skin, external wiki have been around for ages, Wikia isn't the only place for openly editable wiki. For example, the largest and most active Detective Conan Wiki is http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/ which is more reliable than the collection of wiki here on Wikia. Also, I believe that I looked a long time ago, and the best Eva wiki was also external.

So, are we a neutral hub listing the most reliable openly-edtiable free resource of information on series... or are we a biased Wikia Hub listing only Wikia wiki even if there is a more reliable free openly-editable external wiki and the Wikia wiki we link to is a near dead wiki with almost no content? ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 07:57, November 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Would Staff allow external linking in the first place. They've been blocking users over the past few weeks for doing this, but if I had a choice, external linking is a good idea. I dont think the staff would make too much of a fuss if we give links to both the site here on Wikia and the one outside. ..AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 08:56, November 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's for linking/redirecting to an external, not just having a link, there is nothing wrong with external links.
 * As for the Hub, it is a hub on Wikia and should focus here, though I don't see a problem with adding an external link option in the template as long as the external is much larger & more active than the Wikia one, though still keep the standard linking to the Wikia based wiki regardless of size.
 * Another problem is finding a way to fix the drop in visitors here, since the new skin went in to affect the amount of traffic has dropped, mainly because the sidebar link on 200 wikis is now gone.--Sxerks 22:58, November 8, 2010 (UTC)