Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20170619090628

I know I haven't done much of anything for Sega Wiki, but I am considering requesting to more directly helping out here.

I haven't got much to bring onto the table, but heres what I have to offer:


 * I'm an Admin on Sonic News Network, been at it since 2009 and got plenty of experiance under my belt.
 * Also a wiki-based contributor to SNN. I mostly fiddle with MonoBook. (Your MonoBook skin does need quite some work.) But I do have some experiace with Oasis and can perhaps help with that too. I'm thinking black with thin white square pattern, like Mega Drive box art.)
 * Recently, nice guys at Wikia's Fandom has been giving a makeover to our wiki (We call it a "spiff"). I'm not entirely sure what the perks, I think mobile apps and a revised discussion system. Honestly I'm not to fond of the new discussion system, but given this wiki's discussion isn't all that use I doubt it's much of a negative thing here. Anyway to go along with it might help attract some more attention to this wiki. Now, I can ask if Fandom is interested in giving Sega Wiki the same treatment, maybe they can even get more publicity for it. However SNN didn't ask for Fandoms help, it was Fandom that offered it and we welcomed it. So I can ask but can't say if they're up for it.

Why do I want to help this wiki? Sure I'm more of a Sonic fan than just Sega, but sometimes I just wanna talk about other stuff relating to Sega that I feel have no real place to talk about it on SNN. Sure I could join the actual Sega forums but I never really feel comfortable joining forums with no one on the inside I know.

I also have an idea for Sega wiki, but I'm not entirely sure how to pull it off let alone best describe it. My idea is the relations between Sega Wiki and other sega franchise wikis be much more than just affiliations. Ideas in mind could be articles here can offer to redirect to affiliate wiki's articles, maybe a special for it or something if not enough information is granted on the article. Think of it like Miracle on 34th Street where Kris was Mall Santa for Macy's and started directing customers to competitors stores for gifts and products Macy's didn't have. The head of the toy department was angry at this at first but found the customers were more loyal and was generating good publicity goodwill in the store.

Still, this is just an idea. Do not know how the affiliate wiki's will feel of such redirecting. But if somewhat successful would make an interesting network of information passing throughout wikis.  