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Comment: Wiki LEGO not interested in moving.

Hey everybody, today I reached out to Tu-Sais-Qui, a Brickipedian, and the head administrator for Wiki LEGO, the French LEGO Wiki, about possibly having that site move to Brickimedia under fr.brickimedia.org. Tu-Sais-Qui and I have a good past together, and she's appreciated much of my work on the French LEGO Wiki. Having internationalised LEGO Wikis on Brickimedia would make us a stronger and more prominent network with a larger audience, and it would allow me to continue to edit Wiki LEGO even though blocked at Wikia. For preparations, assuming Tu-Sais-Qui is supportive of the offer, I've went ahead and mocked up a skin idea for the wiki. You can take a look at it by going here, or for an example of an actual article, go here (you may need to bypass your cache), and please give feedback on it. :) Wiki LEGO is a great wiki, and I'd love for it to properly be represented on Brickimedia if it were to move. --ToaMeiko (talk) 19:47, 7 October 2013 (EDT)

I think it looks really nice (though I'm still not crazy about tools on both sides). Berrybrick (talk) 19:50, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
Skin's looking good, and it'd be great to have Wiki LEGO on here NovaHawk 19:57, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
Excellent skin, agreed with above. Obi the LEGO Fan (talk) 20:00, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
The skin looks very nice. Hopefully they'll decide to join us. - Bug (talk) 20:24, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
Butterflies :D - Me and Tu-Sais has got on in the past (I still haven't got very far through the massive list of duplicate clock pages we have that she spent hours making). Hopefully this comes through. CJC95 (talk) 20:56, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
Looks great! I'd love it if they join us! --CM4Sci (talk) 21:52, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
Wow, good work! Not only having a french would be good for relations across the community, but even better - gives us more languages, which can then turn us into a large, large site. Can't wait for them to join us. -czech
I fully support, too. Just a question, though: Would we have the wiki on the global drop down menu for the Refreshed skin? Drew1200 (talk)
- Probably. Most likely, yeah. We also may add title attributes to the images in the drop down that describe the wiki, so people won't confuse the wikis. --ToaMeiko (talk) 22:05, 7 October 2013 (EDT)
  - That'd turn into a pretty long (and for the many people who don't fluently speak more than one language- useless) list couldn't it? I'd be happy for now if it's just one wiki, but I think we'd need to look at doing something else as the list grows :S NovaHawk 00:17, 8 October 2013 (EDT)
    - I'd be happy to have a "more" button at the end for the stuff like admin and development. Drew1200 (talk)
      - Per Drew, I'd rather like the "Brickimedia" button to drop down into Meta, Admin and Dev. However, this may cause a bit of code complication.
        SirComputer | Stories Bureaucrat | Talk
        12:02, 8 October 2013 (EDT)
        An option for that would just be to do it with CSS or jQuery on the individual projects if don't want it to be global. Drew1200 (talk)
Per all above; I really like it. Jeyo (talk) 22:03, 7 October 2013 (EDT)

Just received a reply from Tu-Sais-Qui, and she doesn't want to move, for understandable reasons. I plan to stay in contact with her, and we could still hold relations with her wiki, as she does like Brickipedia and many of its users. I'll be reaching out to the German LEGO Wiki soon as well. --ToaMeiko (talk) 14:50, 9 October 2013 (EDT)
Snowhive still there? CJC95 (talk) 20:37, 12 October 2013 (EDT)
Yep. --ToaMeiko (talk) 20:55, 12 October 2013 (EDT)

Stupid question- what's stopping us from making our own French wiki on here anyway? Don't we have a couple of users who speak French? It would mean starting from scratch (I'd feel bad just stealing all of Tu-Sais-Qui's hard work), but it'd be worth getting something going wouldn't it? I only speak a couple of words of French, but I'd be happy to work on templates, etc for the wiki to help get it started :S NovaHawk 03:44, 13 October 2013 (EDT)
The issue is more lack of a community there. You'd have the basics set up, the templates etc, but if you were wanting to go to a French LEGO wiki, do you go to the one with no-one there and 2 articles, or the one with people there and lots of articles? Unless you are power-crazed and want to do a lot of work (or a lot of stealing), you do the latter. CJC95 (talk) 15:25, 13 October 2013 (EDT)
It's a possibility, Nova. While I wouldn't want to have to set something up that would detract attention from Tu-Sais-Qui's work, once the Brickimedia community itself is larger, the ability to internationalise will be easier with more users from more places. A good way to do that would be to get good relations with sites like Eurobricks, HothBricks, Brickset, and other LEGO fan sites with good multinational communities. --ToaMeiko (talk) 16:26, 13 October 2013 (EDT)

@CJC: Take a look at Special:Listusers over there- Tu-Sais-Qui has over 26000 edits, her bot has about 9000. The next highest user has under 400. I may be completely wrong, but judging by those numbers alone, it seems to be me more one user building the wiki on their own than there being any sort of community. @Meiko- true, I think to be realistic, we'd need to get a few more users from European sites if the international wikis were to succeed. I never really considered contacting HothBricks (which is stupid since they're French :P). Even if we could pull in only one dedicated user, that'd put us level with the other wiki. NovaHawk 19:19, 13 October 2013 (EDT)