Forum:Site Affiliations

Hi, recently I've been thinking that we should make an affiliated wikis template and put it in the main page like most wikis do. We are one of the most successful anime/manga wikis (number 3 last time I checked) so as you can imagine many wikis will want to affiliate with us. Aka we will get content in a mere day. Another reason is that many wikis already have us as affiliates and most of them have done so after admin approval so it's kinda unfair not to have them in our front page. Examples are: w:c:bleach, w:c:toriko, w:c:weekly-shonen-jump and many, many others, small and big ones. Affiliating with other wikis will also raise our wiki's members since many people will ask for affiliation, most of them will make other edits as well and some of them will stay and become frequent editors. And anyway wikis are suppose to cooperate with each other so why not give the chance to other, smaller wikis to get more people by affiliating with us?

Oh, but if we decide to make that template, keep in mind that only admins and some other trusted users that admins will choose can allow affiliations and request affiliations in other wikis.

I'd like to hear your opinions on this matter. Please discuss below. 18:58, October 28, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
The more the merrier.

I like this idea. We're already on the affiliated lists of a couple wikis, might as well do it ourselves. 17:29, October 29, 2013 (UTC)

Yes, do it. 18:58, October 29, 2013 (UTC)

Sure, let's do it. 14:00, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, why not? 14:02, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Yes that'd be good,make a test template.--

This is how it will look like, of course with more wordmarks. Ah and we will have to upload the wordmarks on the wiki of course, not just use the links like I did here. 14:51, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

What's the worst that could happen. I also say aye to this. 16:40, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Seems like a good idea to me, even though I can't vote.

I'm all for it.  Fintin  Talk   17:37, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Since it's 10 people for, nobody against, I will go ahead and create it. 17:40, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Criteria for Affiliation
What exactly is the criteria for becoming affiliated with this wiki? From what I've seen of the wikis we've become affiliated with recently, there seems to be no pattern for who we're affiliated with and who we aren't. I get affiliations with wikis like Bleach, Naruto, Shonen Jump, Dragonball, etc since OP has many things in common with those series and there is relevant/related information that may be on those wikis. But I don't understand why we're affiliated with a wiki with only 44 pages and one editor. It's not that I'm against affiliating with other wikis, I just want to know why it's helpful for us and why we're doing it. 22:46, November 11, 2013 (UTC)

We should have an approval process (on a project page, or allow admins to decide) to accept new affiliates. Personally, the criterion should be an active community (pages and files don't matter as much). If a wiki isn't getting edited at least once every few days, it shouldn't be on the list either. I agree that wikis like the one you listed shouldn't just randomly be put onto our affiliate list. 22:47, November 11, 2013 (UTC)