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I play violin in my school's orchestra, and sing baritone in the vocal ensemble, but I'm not in the band 

According to Wikipedia, Victor Interactive Software originally produced Harvest Moon, but Marvelous Entertainment Inc. acquired it in 2003 when they bought out VIS.

Which I just quoted

My bad... 

Currently Reading Ian McEwan's Atonement for school.  It has some interesting content, but I'd enjoy it more if it weren't required reading.  I really don't read anything that isn't required anymore.  I tried reading Brisingr but couldn't get into it, and haven't picked anything up since.

I've always liked Cutter.  No reason, really, I just have a thing for Sir Kibble.

According to Wikipedia, Victor Interactive Software originally produced Harvest Moon, but Marvelous Entertainment Inc. acquired it in 2003 when they bought out VIS.

Right.  Money.  That part didn't occur to me.  In that case, it seems logical to host only wikis that get enough traffic for them to be "profitable", so to speak.  But it also seems logical that the bigger NIWA gets, the more traffic it will attract, and more likely it will be that a wiki will be worth the money.  We just have to keep everything in balance, and make sure we deal with things appropriately as they come.

Good luck turning a wiki profitable, in any respect.

I knew that wasn't the word I was looking for, which is why I put it in quotes.  I meant that a wiki should be worth the money being paid for it.  I wasn't anticipating anyone making a profit on a wiki, just making good use of the money they put into it.

Right.  Money.  That part didn't occur to me.  In that case, it seems logical to host only wikis that get enough traffic for them to be "profitable", so to speak.  But it also seems logical that the bigger NIWA gets, the more traffic it will attract, and more likely it will be that a wiki will be worth the money.  We just have to keep everything in balance, and make sure we deal with things appropriately as they come.

Well, if the communities don't exist, then nobody would care if there was a wiki for it or not. We need to make sure we don't get so caught up in editing that we forget that nobody cares about what we're writing.

I would be careful about saying "nobody" cares.  Typically, the writer of the content cares.  That's somebody.  And there are bound to be others, however few in number they may be. 

I was envisioning NIWA as the ultimate resource for all things Nintendo, personally.  In which case, I'd gladly like to have wikis on smaller franchises, wherever they come from.  Then again, that's not exactly the goal of NIWA, at least for now, am I correct?

Mystery Dungeon, followed closely by Ranger.  Both excellent spinoffs that have done quite well for themselves.

Unique

I mean come on, Nintendo's titles can't be all you play.

Well actually...

I'm in that camp as well.

We could always get them to move to Wikii temporarily until someone could get a proper domain. From what I've heard, Wikii doesn't keep your content when you leave, unlike Wikia, so there wouldn't be too many problems.

It would seem a little tedious to move twice.  Unless they can't find hosting anywhere, I would suggest moving straight to independence.  Keeping things as simple as possible 

Perhaps I should create a new topic for this, but since the discussion involves approaching a Wikia wiki about going independent, I'd like to again suggest Golden Sun Universe as another candidate.

http://goldensun.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I'm in no way affiliated with them, but they have over 1,000 articles and only 36 of them are classified (by their definition) as stubs.  They're getting a lot of activity with the release of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn in 12 days, and their community is as big as ever.  I don't know what their thoughts about leaving Wikia are, if any do exist, but I think they would be worth talking to.

I don't expect you to.  You have certainly worked hard to get to where you are now, and it's certainly an amazing accomplishment.  I'm not trying to criticize Mariowiki, and I wasn't trying to complain about the coverage policy.  I applaud your efforts wherever they may be put, and I'm sorry if I said anything particularly offensive.  I was just trying to offer my own thoughts.   
Mariowiki will forever be my #1 source for Mario information.  By that same token, Smashwiki will be my #1 source for Smash Bros. information, and DKwiki for DK info as well.  I do hope that this situation won't be considered a "problem" as it has been made out to be, and that we can all coexist peacefully.

I understand the reasoning behind the choices you've made in your coverage policy, but I personally think it's a little overkill.  For example, if I were looking for information on Banjo-Kazooie, Mariowiki wouldn't be the first place I would look.  On that note, I wouldn't even go to DKwiki looking for Banjo-Kazooie or Conker info.  I would go to a Banjo-Kazooie wiki for information about Banjo-Kazooie.

I just now found out that both Banjo and Mario exist in the same "universe", but I doubt that many people know that, considering Banjo made a very small appearance in one game that isn't closely tied to the Mario franchise at all.  The Banjo series is, let me get this right, a spinoff (Banjo series) of a spinoff (Diddy Kong Racing) of a spinoff (Donkey Kong series), with the main series being Mario.  That's pretty distant, if you ask me.

Let me also throw this out there.  If I were looking for information about Donkey Kong as he appeared in Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, I'd look at DKwiki.  If I were looking for information about Donkey Kong as he appeared in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, I'd look at Mariowiki.  Just what makes sense from a personal standpoint.  You can cover all the information you want to, but I'd probably look at DKwiki or Smashwiki for information about those franchises rather than Mariowiki.

Even though they're on Wikia right now, Golden Sun Universe is very extensive with over 1,000 articles and is getting a lot of traffic (relatively) with the upcoming release of Dark Dawn.  I'm wondering if they've considered leaving Wikia to become independent or not.  Think they might be worth talking to?

That I do.  Just sent you a request.

Yeah, right now I really don't know much, but I think I've found my stomping ground.   

I'm sure I'll have questions about how to set up pages, templates, and such, but I might be able to figure that out from examples already in existence.

Hey everybody,

I'm BrandedOne and I'm kind of a newbie to all of this.  However, I've been watching NIWA grow since it's creation and I'm excited to see it continue to grow into what I'm sure will be my #1 resource for all Nintendo knowledge.  I'm a fan of anything that has Nintendo's name on it, but my favorite series has to be the Fire Emblem Series (which is where my username comes from).  I hardly know anything about how to run a wiki, so I don't think I'll be doing much of that, but I'll be happy to contribute when I can where I can.  I've noticed that the members of this particular community are very supportive of each other and their work, which is something I don't see often enough on the Internet, and I'd like to become involved in any way I can.