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Her letter to you sounded as though she were talking to a child. She might as well have offered to trade you the site for a bag of candy to be fully insulting.

I can't believe no one's already mentioned the Transformers wiki yet, given their famous break from Wikia.

Let me know when the time comes, I can contact someone at the Transformers Wiki that has been an awesome editor at Zelda Wiki.org.

It's just JoJo as far as I know, she hasn't felt that Wars Wiki needs other staff yet. I haven't seen her on MSN in a while now but I haven't been online much, and not during any of my European contacts regular hours I do think we should set Wars Wiki up as we have with WiKirby and Metroid Wiki, a banner, and JoJo have access to the other sections. That would need to be agreed upon back there first, but I don't think it'll be a major hassle to have it done.

I don't remember the exact number but it was between $60 and $80 to get it started up. I'm expecting around a $40 renewal on the hosting, add $25 if it gets large enough to warrant a dedicated server. I put ads on it, but I expect it not recoup costs for a few years-best case scenario. It's no big deal tho. I have a full time job-so paying for my site isn't going to kill me or anything.

The best thing we could do with any money would be to advertise in Nintendo Power. It'd probably cost an arm and a leg tho.

hmm, come to think of it, I dare one of you to ask them their rates.

Right-o. WiKirby began as something we could link to. Zelda Wiki.org defaulted to linking to Wikipedia. And this deal was way too one sided. The Wikia group periodically changed any Wikipedia links going to ZW to link to their own wiki. So now, we can link users to a wiki covering the content that will link back to us. It's a nice circular path.

I'm not entirely sure what qualifications we need to meet to be a NIWA inductee/full member but meeting that would be easier as a member. However, it was my suggestion that we meet some standard to earn inclusion to be fair to later applicants. Right now I'm looking for places to advertise, get a good member base going to become a wiki that can stand alongside the NIWA members, but yes I did include niwa links and banners to WiKirby to show support and all that.

I'm not aware of any plagiarism at WiKirby. There was a prediction of plagiarism from one of the guys, but as far as I know it wasn't done. We've been checking edits from users as much as possible and only found one newcomer copy/pasting. I honestly think it may have been one of the Wikia guys testing us to see if we'd act against it. But that was resolved right away. I know the Metroid Wiki had a huge fuss with Wikitroid over someone rampantly copy/pasting and paraphrasing. I believed that was resolved as well. We all know it happens everywhere from time to time. It's just a matter of dealing with it after the fact. I've even seen Mario Wiki messages from its early days dealing with people that pasted content from Wikia. I'm certain Bulbapedia has faced an accusation at least once. And I've dealt with a few at Zelda Wiki. But in all honesty, the plagiarism between Zelda Wiki.org and Zeldapedia has been vastly overstated bc they threw fits about any instance of articles we had that followed the most obvious layout (sectioned by game). There's only been a handful of cases in which copying was obvious, we removed it and told the editor not to do that. On the other hand, we know of several pages at Zeldapedia, in which we wrote incorrect info at Zelda Wiki.org, waited for one of their regulars to copy it and add it to Zeldapedia, then corrected our page; leaving them with incorrect bits. (Shameful, I know, but we had massive problems with them at that time.)

Anyway, a Smash Wiki would be awesome. I predict problems with this one since there's like 5 people that want to own it. Steve of Zelda Wiki.org being one of them. Nate mentioned that ZW's staff would be most supportive of anything from Steve. He created the skins for Metroid Wiki and WiKirby for free (and it's an invaluable favor), so we naturally will be obligated to support him. I'm hoping he chooses to work with everyone else expressing interest in getting the Smash Wiki started to prevent any rifts.

Don't do it. The universe implodes.

No worries, JoJo. It's an easy mistake to make, I've been trying to make the main page of Wikirby include the niwa stuff. The key difference is that the Main page here doesn't include us, and the Niwa member wikis don't have us held up as highly in the affiliations. I'm a supporter of WiKirby reaching a goal to actually earn the membership. I'm confident that Wars Wiki will be a Niwa member before WK. And I do intend to help it get there too!

yep Good job to everyone involved! Believe me I'm looking forward to finding the time to edit there since I've played most Metroid games and love em!

I'd like to hear more about that issue, if we can't fix it, then we can see if the server guys know anything about it. When Cipriano 119 was having a problem, we sent them an email and the issue was resolved in 4 minutes!

A screenshot of the error is the absolute best way for us to see what's going on. I'm assuming you know how to do that, but if not, just press "Print Screen" and then paste that to your image software (MSPaint will do too), save as .jpg or something then upload it to Photobucket/Image shack/whatever... and post the link in here.

Can we sign it like the American Declaration of Independence?

There's quite a lot of discussion going on, but I honestly don't think we have the manpower for the proposed internal wikis right now. The main reason we want them internal is bc they would be critical to niwa. Imagine if we help someone build up a new Smash Bros wiki and they later sell it to Wikia. It would be hugely devastating to our morale and all of our cross-linking would be undone in favor of wikia's own versions.

As far as the franchises go, list which games you could run a wiki on, and we can look at what would be your best bet for a self-sustaining wiki.

For smash, there likely will be an internal creation. But AC, I think the existing wiki may be moving to its own host to join.

Fire Emblem isn't, We were thinking to suggest for those wikis, someone wanting to start a new one should go to all known forums and sites, build up a support base for the wiki. (Zelda Wiki.org has a setup that could be replicated to unite fragmented fanbases.)

It'd be much easier to improve the existing independent Wars Wiki than to start from scratch. I think the user base over there would be much more motivated if they knew what they stood to gain by being aligned with us.

http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?sort=views_desc&th=100&lines=8313

According to this, we are not just the top viewed Nintendo Wikis, but in the top ranks of any wikis.

are there any franchises of nintendo's that needs a independent wiki, but is currently lacking?

From what I investigated, Advance/Nintendo Wars and Custom Robo only have Wikias. So they would be something to look into.

http://warswiki.warscentral.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I'll be honest, the user base may not want to move until you have the new home up, ready, and clearly better than the old. Stick with them for now and work on the new site on the side.

Start a new thread for Fantendo's tech issues and we'll try assisting there.

Let Zelda Wiki gloat about the magazine article mention a bit, and when it dies down I'll put a news post above it bump it down At least 2 of our member sites posted an article (Zelda Universe and ZeldaInformer) Which was in the RSS feed for a while.