Board Thread:Wiki Proposals/@comment-28732696-20160306183853

Hi everyone!

My name is Legopanama.

Many of you may know me, as I have helped out with lots of new features on this wiki, such as chat tags, chat hacks, you're navbar, custom emoticons, and different alert messages, and much more.

Well, I'm here with another feature, if you could call it a feature.

It's called affiliation.

So what is affiliation?

The definition of affiliation varies from wiki, but the generally accepted definition is an exchange of banners between two or more wikis.

These banners are generally just the wiki's logo. However, some larger wikis have created special logos just for affiliations, but this is exteremly rare.

These banners are then displayed on a wiki's main page. The method of displaying varies from wiki to wiki, but most wikis have a section titled "Affiliates" and then below all the banners from the wikis they have affiliated with.

Affiliating with wikis is a great way to show that you're wiki is cross community, and not just a sealed off community with no communication with other wikis.

This also is great advertisement, as users that may be interested in say, Beauty and the Beast, and are users on the Beauty and the Beast Wiki, but are also interested in the Flash, can see that their is a wiki for the Flash. This heightens the chances of attracting users that are established wikia users, and it a great help to building your community.

Below I have pasted the code wikis use to show their affiliates wordmarks.

File:Affiliates Kung Fu Panda Wiki Wordmark.png|250px|link=http://kungfupanda.wikia.com/wiki/%7CKung Fu Panda Wiki]]

If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me, and I'll do my best to answer them.

• Contact • Contribs • 18:38, March 6, 2016 (UTC) 