Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-188432-20140119233827

Six weeks doesn't make a pattern. You might make a go of this. That'd be great. That'd be something I'd hope for.

But it would be irresponsible of us at Tardis not to look at the whole history of the wiki, and to make our "bets" based upon the general pattern. And the record is that people periodically get interested in DW Fanon and then walk away.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this wiki has exactly one active admin, Pinguinus, who isn't even a bureaucrat. You — that is to say, the DWF community — don't even have the power to locally make new admins. You have no facility for perpetuating your community. How can we reasonably support you?

See, it is logical for us at Tardis to say, "Let's see some kinda proof that you're going to be able to continue." Something like 6 months to a year of sustained activity is not an unreasonable ask. Two bureaucrats and several admin isn't too much to require. Before we overtly support this wiki, you've gotta show us that you're serious.

And even then, we'd probably only support wikis individually. We're not going back to a situation where we just give a free advertisement to another wiki on our front page just because they have the words "Doctor Who" in their url. We need a reasonably long history of stability before we give full promotion to other Wikia wikis.

Our biggest goal with other Wikia wikis is to support the growth of encyclopaedic wikis in other languages. To us, the term "the Doctor Who family of wikis" means fr.doctorwho, pt.doctorwho, he.doctorwho and the like. It doesn't mean things like this wiki that have a totally different aim than our wiki.

I guess what I'm saying is that we've already tried this at Tardis. Putting up advertisements for different wikis didn't work. DWF laid dormant for the two years we had up the link. DWC hit a period of decline despite the advertisement. DWE and DWDVD did absolutely nothing while the ad was active.

The past six weeks have been the most active time in DWF's history and it came without Tardis' help. What makes a community is people willing to work for it. Create something for us to link to, and we'll link to it.

As the saying goes, if you build it, they will come.