User talk:Axiomist

WiKirby
Hello, Axiomist, owner of WiKirby. I apologize for what was said in that Zelda Universe thread. I posted hoping to quell any ill feelings between wikis. I promise you we will not copy/paste. I gave this link to the people I set up as patrollers and instructed them to compare any new submissions against what's here to make sure it's not copied. We are also aiming to get our images from the actual games and I told them not to grab anything here. If you see it being done, you are free to revert the edit and notify me. Trust me, if I weren't so tough about it WiKirby would have paste jobs for every single Kirby article already here and on Wikipedia.

I'll come back this weekend so we can talk things out. I'm not expecting your full support, but I hope we aren't considered your enemy either. Our site is bare bones now, but those of us involved are pretty good at wiki designing. So we'll get it cool eventually. For one we won't have blogs or forums so this wiki will have that as an exclusive feature forever. We have some awesome new features for our wiki planned but right now, we are replaying Kirby games one by one to write up the content-all new. This slows us down, but I feel it's important to maintain integrity.

I'll explain the affiliation issue a bit. At Zelda Wiki.org We had so many problems keeping our in-article links intact. Wikia and Wikipedia systematically removed links even though we linked to them as much as possible. The Zeldapedia guys make it harder by having a rivalry mindset. After talking to Bulbapedia and Mario Wiki, we found out that it's common for Independent Wikis to suffer like that. The Wikia network buys out the owners of Independent Wikis and either chooses to host them or wipe them clean. So we banded together and are starting wikis for what we could link to and have link back to us. The main goal is to allow Zelda Wiki.org, Mario Wiki, and Bulbapedia's viewers easily navigate back and forth among fan wikis. So it's like the Wikia network but smaller and we can maintain control on things like the skin, the source coding, ads (we like it as minimal as possible). Axiomist 08:10, February 12, 2010 (UTC)