The TF Wiki

[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?

[FFN]

8010 articles now.

The latest one is Hiroaki Hirata, and the 8009th article is a frame work for the Armada preview comic from 2002. Somebody should get around to writing it during the week.

[griffin]

You guys should have stayed at the old location and 'deleted' its content, and then after it dropped out of the 'ratings', asked for it to be removed. Now you'll be competing against something you guys put in the effort to create in the first place.