The Pitch to Wikia

Hello Wikia!

I was wondering if a community I administrate would be able to embrace an ambitious project. As you know, your forums are laggy and buggy, and will depreciate soon. Unfortunately, the community excessively uses wikitext, templates, source code, etc especially in a game called hurt and heal.

They also just strongly prefer that formatting anyway. Rather than discussions with hyperlinking (resembling visualeditor) and the like. Discussions will become remarkable one day, however, in terms of this massive community, it may not work out as planned.

And that's why we may leave Wikia (not fork, but forums) to another website. This will only be the forum, as we want the enhance and promote the best user experience possible and we feel the upcoming plans may be a challenge for us.

You are capable of migrating forum posts into discussions so I'd like to seek your assistance further. We may create a global SpongeBob fan base called "Planet SpongeBob." There are two other massive spongebob community forums called The SpongeBob Community (https://www.thesbcommunity.com/) and SpongeBuddy Mania (https://www.sbmania.net/forums/index.php).

Those two communities skyrocketed in community growth ever since they were both born. Because of this, I have wanted to merge forums of those two communities but also ESB's forum as well to preserve the data and create a larger, more diverse and thriving SpongeBob community called "Planet SpongeBob."

Planet SpongeBob will be located at planetspongebob.com The forums mentioned above are both built on IBP forum engine. They can be merged without issue. All the sites (including ESB) are also built on MediaWiki simplifying it a bit. However, Fandom staff has not given a way for a user to save the forum data in a wiki forum. User:JCM is an SBC Manager and would like to pursue this collaboration if only it would work out.

He basically would want a way to save forum data or gain your assistance in helping merge the forum. As I said, I'm sorry Discussions won't work out for the community. It's not that I don't like it; it's just that it doesn't offer the capabilities this community needs in order to function properly or smoothly.

And plus, combining forum efforts on other fan sites would be a great way to expand the community base, and be more global and open. Way beyond Wikia/Fandom. The wiki of ESB will of course stay on Fandom. It's just the forums. Discussions which is already enabled on the side by side will stay as I noticed some users using it solely from mobile. As well as the app. It'll be crucial for them and we'll leave it available in case anyone else wants to make good use of it too.

Thanks. G o l f p e c k s 256