Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-25075055-20140406201832

Your dismissiveness there is interesting. Because you seem to be scoffing at the only thing this wiki has that all the other Naruto websites don't: information. Which I should hope is not your true feeling. It was sarcasm, because some of the opposers to this think the mainspace is the only thing important and that everything else is unnecessary. While it is indeed important, feigning ignorance to everything else is annoying. Is the wiki, in its current form, not a group of individuals sharing common interests that perceive themselves as distinct from the larger society? There is collaboration, but only to improve Narutopedia &mdash; in some people's eyes &mdash; as a resource. That does not make it a community. A community would be where people actually discuss things more openly in forums. And you absolutely do not want to be using "the rest of the internet" as an argument. Because then you're going to have to undermine yourself with a bunch of exceptions about what "the rest of the internet" does but this wiki should not. I refer to internet forums and webmaster websites. Wikipedia has no such thing as a community, because it's only a collaborative effort to create a large resource: Wookieepedia is a community because the members get together on the forums and discuss the series, while simultaneously managing a large resource. This seems to be what many of the people opposed are railing against and, unfortunately, also what several people in favor seem to chiefly want. This is only because they feel like they're talking to a brick wall and not getting away. To use the old saying: "If you can't beat them, join them". That's what some people are doing. Which leaves me to wonder if blogs would not be the better compromise. Umishiru did suggest Blogs, but I do not find the Blogs to be as intuitive to use as forums, which are more threaded from oldest to newest at the top and are easier to reply to: a blog has the newest comments at the top and replies are much harder to use. Plus, with forums, you can actually add a topic so that people viewing the respective article can see thread: this isn't possible with blogs. being a separate namespace Blogs still show up on WikiActivity/RecentChanges, just like the forums.

Thank you for showing that you actually are more open minded to improving the site and not being completely against discussion here. You are correct: Naruto Answers is persistently plastered everywhere here because it's the only place people can ask questions about Naruto on Wikia, they can't do it here because of some of the rules which forbid discussion of the series and due to some members attitudes.