The TF Wiki

[FFN]

Thanks for reminding me about them. I totally forgot about the Trans-Scanning and DVD Spychanger.

[FFN]

I was just looking at the old Wikia Teletraan 1 wiki and was both amused and sad at how unprofessional it was becoming, especially the bad, low-resolution pictures being uploaded without descriptions, Wikipedia-style.

Also amused that evidently the new staff there (well, one guy) decided to ditch our officially-confirmed news only policy, and, like the Wikipedia, is reporting ROTF information from unofficial sources.

Yeah, I'm petty.

[dirge]

FFN, what's the deal with the "old" site, anyway? Was there like a split or something?

[griffin]

IIRC, they just abandoned it in favour of a host that didn't cover half their articles with advertising. Unfortunately the original host won't just remove the framework of a 'free' wiki, it has to be left there like an abandoned house, allowing any squatters to use or vandalise the premises. So while the framework (sub-domain) exists, deleting the contents by the outgoing owners is a waste of time because the contents can be re-installed at any time by the new 'owners'.

[FFN]

Wikia wouldn't delete it partly because the Teletraan I wikia was one of their most popular wikis, and they used it for propaganda purposes when promoting how the new Wikia layout (which itself was later modified to include more intrusive advertising). Wikia claimed since changing we received a spike of hits. IIRC, the problem was their claimed jump in the number of visits was due to the BotCon weekend and the days when new episodes of Animated aired, so we would have been expecting jumps in visitors regardless of layout.

Lots of non-fan sites linked to the Teletraan I wikia during the filming of Revenge of the Fallen because of certain rumours, which doesn't help. Our article for a certain character related to this was updated to beef up the fiction section/biography and include more images, but it's still on page 3 of google searches.

[FFN]

Yay, the TFWiki.net now has over 1000 more articles than the Wikia site.

As of 25/1/09:
TFWiki.net: 8,009 articles
Wikia: 6,998 articles

Psyche edge! We hit 8000 before they hit 7000, in two days we created 65 new articles.

[GoktimusPrime]

So what is the 8009th article?