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Wikia tour.

Wikia recently (well, I don't know how recent it truly is. I do know that I only learned about it yesterday, so it's recent to me) released a new feature which gives individual wikis to present a virtual tour or their content. I looked it over and decided it would be something worth pursuing, and, thus, have developed a "beta" of the tour.

Unfortunately (well, fortunately for us IMHO, but unfortunately for the apparent intent), as Wookieepedia is less concerned with community efforts such as blogging or other non-encyclopedic tasks, the content available for a stock tour was somewhat limited. Once I finished up on talking about the GA, I... kinda ran out of ideas.

So, after a brief break from the work, I decided to focus less on showing off Wookieepedia and more on both coaching new users, like a guided tour of our Community Portal, and also on drawing new editors to Wookieepedia by offering upfront the ideals of Wookieepedia's editing styles. With this mindset in place, I added pages pointing out and commmenting on such things as the Layout Guide, the MOS, and other assorted editing-related topics. While, from the outside, these may look worthless, to a user like myself being drawn to and shown exactly how the wiki is designed to run is vastly more beneficial than to simply say "Here's the wiki. Have fun."

And that's where you, the community, comes in. I'm perfectly willing to work and maintain this feature, but I would appreciate input, positive or negative. I'd also really like suggestions on additional pages that would follow the mindset I talked about above (and below, since I'm going to TL;DR this). In no way does this have to be anything "official", but if reaction is such that it looks good to have officialized I'll make way to CT, if necessary.

So, shoot. 07:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

'''TL;DR version: Wikia made something new. I adapted it to fit Wookieepedia's style: More encyclopedia, less BS. I would like input. That is all.'''