Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-34115-20140402172022

For those who want the forums opened up, you're going to have to explain why that's an improvement to the wiki. Remembering that as a wiki/encyclopedia the primary goal here is to document the series.

'''"Opening up the forums would make the wiki more active." How does this activity help the wiki?'''

Why is a community that just collaborates on a wiki not a community?

Since it's been awhile I'll re-explain why we closed off the forums in the first place.

At one point our forums were open, we allowed plenty of discussions not related to improving the wiki, and it was active. However after awhile we discovered that the forum's activity was filled primarily by users who had never even made a single edit improving he content of the wiki. Worse, these users were actively hostile towards the users who did edit the wiki. We had a situation where continued openness of the forum seriously risked driving the actual editors of the wiki and killing the encyclopedia dead. So after a community discussion, by consensus, we closed off the forum.

On the topic of the Naruto answers wiki. "X Answers" wikis are something Wikia came up with awhile ago, presumably to compete with the various answers sites there are, they have special coding for them, work differently than normal wikis, and at one point were integrated more – Wikia had an integrated answers sidebar box linking to the answers wiki, with a field to ask a question, and a list of recent answers – so frankly the creation of the Naruto Answers wiki is completely irrelevant to the forum, it would have been created whether our forum was open or not, as the primary reason for it's creation was so that the Narutopedia's sidebar would have "Naruto Answers" in it instead of a generic "Answers" in it.