Board Thread:New on Lego Message Boards Wiki/@comment-1693968-20130216141945/@comment-33628828-20130221131914

Hey guys, just a quick update.

First of all, we will have the same chat on the new wiki as here. And I don't mean that you'll need to come back to legomessageboards.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Chat to chat - there will be a local version at whatever domain you end up on. It will have the same customizability and interface as this one has, but is a bit of an older version. This is an inconvenience to chatmods then, because banning will fill up the user rights log again, but it won't make a difference to people in the chat.

Second of all, badges. This part is kind of exciting. There will now be up to three kinds of badges: Automatic ones, which you get for edit milestones and other such actions. There will (or rather can be if you want them) user to user badges, so if one person thinks that another is doing something well, they can easily reward them for that. The third is admin to user badges, so admins can give users badges. Admins can also fully customize the badges which can be given in each category, and create new ones!

Third, money from advertising. Like said above, the majority of it will be used to pay for the hosting. Any extra will be used on contests, but that doesn't mean just Brickipedia. It will be the focus, because contests are great for increasing content editing, but there could also be contests here. I'm not sure how much money ads will bring in, though.

Finally, with the stories wikis, there are actually a bunch that want to have a new site, so I was thinking... one wiki at stories.brickimedia.org with all of the wikis combined into it? Would that work well? Ideally, I'd like to make the most out of every site.