Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-4189499-20140119214716

CzechOut, on your point about other wikis in the alliance going "dead": DWA was "dead" for a while back in 2012 between Alex across abandoning and Icecreamdif adopting. The wiki was filled with vandalism and was being patrolled almost solely by 3 IP editors: 89, 70, and 41. But then new editors found the wiki and made it better! Candidates for Deletion started being cleared regularly. Some sort of category system was eventually created. The wiki got 2 spotlights, one a double length one because of a timing problem, and so many other improvements have been made since Icecreamdif's adoption! The main problem "dead" wikis face is finding new contributors to keep them alive. I am guessing that DWA has the buggy answers module to thank for a lot of our traffic while it was up and for bringing the people who have been looking after the wiki for more than the past year to the wiki in the first place. If this isn't proof that connecting the wikis can help bring editors to them, I don't know what can. That little buggy side rail module exposed me to DWA and as a result opened up the rest of Wikia to me! But the module has been taken away now, however this network or inter wiki alliance or whatever can fill the void that created. I also forgot about Doctor Who Expanded and didn't know about Doctor Who DVD Extra Features to suggest they be asked into the alliance, bringing yet another pool of whovians to hopefully start circulating all our wikis and help improve them all!