Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-188432-20140123185610

Okay, so bottom-navigation seems to be what's agreed here. And, as Imamadmad says: I do view this network basically as a form of mutual advertisement, because that is what in effect it will do: make new users aware of and able to get to other Doctor Who wikis.

So some participants actually believe' that it will be an effective form of advertisement by at least some of the participants to this thread. But I've proven with over two years worth of data that this idea doesn't work as advertisement.

Pinguinus seems to agree: I believe you've rested your case, CzechOut, that a network will not attract new users in the way most people think it would. I agree with you. I therefore believe the original proposal's stated goal ought to be discussed and, if necessary, discarded. So why go through with it? We know it's not going to work, because it's already been tried for a more than reasonable length of time on the biggest DW wiki at Wikia. Why waste the space on the bottom of our front pages?

I mean, if a guy comes up to you and says I'm gonna jump off this bridge and fly to safety without any mechanical assistance, you're logically going to say, "No you're not." I mean, it's nice to believe in Superman, but people cannot actually fly. We know that because we've tested by dropping objects off the bridge and we know that gravity actually works in such a way that prevents people from flying. We don't need to personally jump off the bridge to prove that we can't fly.

Yet, with this idea, Tardis has already jumped off the bridge and proven that you just go splat when you do that.

So we need to either admit that we're not doing it to grow our wikis, or we need to instead focus on strategies that will actually grow our wikis.