Talk:The Gundam Wiki

Hello Gundam Wiki! I'm a user from Wikipedia that hopes to forge a working relationship between the Gundam Wiki and Wikipedia's WP:GUNDAM editors group. Many Gundam articles from Wikipedia need a new home, as we are finding they are not notable enough for the general Wikipedia. However, this shouldn't be seen as a bad thing, since as long as we can cross link and collaborate between Gundam Wiki and WP:GUNDAM, we can have the same coverage of content and everything is still under the GFDL. In fact, being able to split specialty articles with a higher level of focus to wikia will likely result in higher quality articles in the eyes of Gundam fans. We'll be able to dive into more detail and have a bit more freedom when it comes to OR.

Some articles have already been deleted from Wikipedia. Many of them have already been exported to an XML file that can be imported using Special:Import. Admins on Wikipedia have offered to undelete any deleted Gundam article in order to move it to here, so even what was once "lost" will come back to life here on Gundam Wiki. Regardless of what level of collaboration we are able to establish, at the very least we hope to give those articles a home. Ideally, making at least one copy of all the major and most (if not all) of the minor Gundam articles here on Wikia in some form. For articles that already exist here on Wikia, we'd ether choose one over the other or merge, depending on what kind of useful info was there (I'm guessing most times it would be a merge of content).

My personal idea goes a bit further. Keep in mind this is just my own little idea, and mostly me just thinking out loud. To be more efficient and really use our time wisely, I suggest updating articles that are still hosted on Wikipedia with their related article here automatically by a bot. That way we only have to update one set of articles, but Gundam Wiki will always have the most complete copy. If there is a version of the article here, we will merge it's contents to the Wikipedia version. Another idea I think might work, but would be a bit more complicated, is to keep both copies editable but see if the bot can "sync" sections that don't cause an edit conflict. The bot would then make a request in some manner for a human editor to decide on what to do with parts where there was an edit conflict.

Bot idea or not, we at least want to be able to give a great deal of Gundam content a new home rather than being deleted, as well as giving a much needed boost in activity to Gundam Wiki. I look forward to this cross-site project. -- Ned Scott 03:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)