Talk:Health
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[edit] Lost
How do I edit a Public Health page. I am lost here. Where is the start out page. I have edited wikipedia but this place takes to much for granted. RoddyYoung 11:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, Roddy! I'm sorry to hear that you're having a hard time finding your way around. Wikia isn't the same as Wikipedia... Wikipedia is one big site about everything, while Wikia is a collection of different sites.
- There is a wiki about Public Health, but it hasn't been built up. If you'd like to help there, it would be great! -- Danny
(talk) 16:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Layout
- I reworked the layout a bit to be more standard with the other hubs, and added a stars list which most hubs have and I find very useful in determining a wikia's relevance. I also added the Health and Psychology back to the list as they somehow were removed and are by far the two most popular health wikias. -- Rev Bem 23:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for working on the page! I took the link to Health.wikia out because that site is going to be shutting down soon... It's actually going to become a redirect to this hub. :)
- Thanks for the info, why is the Health Wikia shutting down, it has so much useful content. Why would we throw it away?? -- Rev Bem 23:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's using a format that we tried out with a bunch of subjects over the summer. We found that that format isn't as effective at attracting a contributor base as the regular wiki format is. What's the content that you find useful there? I'm sure we can find a home for it. -- Danny (talk) 00:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's using a format that we tried out with a bunch of subjects over the summer. We found that that format isn't as effective at attracting a contributor base as the regular wiki format is. What's the content that you find useful there? I'm sure we can find a home for it. -- Danny
- There has got to be more to it than a formatting issue. It has 62,000 pages, and 113,000 users? -- Rev Bem 01:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- The 113,000 number isn't the number of users on that wiki. This includes users from other Wikia sites. In reality, health.wikia only ever had one active user (other than Wikia staff) and he hasn't edited the project since the middle of last year. A lot of the content was bot-generated or mirrored from other freely licensed resources. It was an experiment to see if content alone would attract a community, but for this topic, it didn't really happen. I've recently looked through all the content that had been edited since the launch and the vast majority of those 62,000 pages were untouched. We will be creating a general health wiki again, but this time with a more organic focus, where the community themselves add content over time rather than trying to jump-start the site with content people aren't very interested in editing. Angela (talk) 01:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- The 113,000 number isn't the number of users on that wiki. This includes users from other Wikia sites. In reality, health.wikia only ever had one active user (other than Wikia staff) and he hasn't edited the project since the middle of last year. A lot of the content was bot-generated or mirrored from other freely licensed resources. It was an experiment to see if content alone would attract a community, but for this topic, it didn't really happen. I've recently looked through all the content that had been edited since the launch and the vast majority of those 62,000 pages were untouched. We will be creating a general health wiki again, but this time with a more organic focus, where the community themselves add content over time rather than trying to jump-start the site with content people aren't very interested in editing. Angela
[edit] Stats
Here are the top 10 health wikis by article count.
- http://bmet.wikia.com/ - 220
- http://autism.wikia.com/ - 197
- http://vegan.wikia.com/ - 185
- http://diabetes.wikia.com/ - 173
- http://sleepapnea.wikia.com/ - 144
- http://biomedicalcybernetics.wikia.com/ - 72
- http://psych.wikia.com/ - 72
- http://medic.wikia.com/ - 72
- http://depression.wikia.com/ - 76
- http://medicine.wikia.com/ - 60
I've excluded the health and fitness magazine sites, and psychology which was redefined as education rather than health. Angela (talk) 01:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)