Forum:Language versions / sister sites

While I generally don't like the idea of cutting off the foreign language versions of The Vault, the fact is that while we continue to link to them, they will still link to Nukapedia as their English version, as Wikia would not allow it otherwise (and some of them have actually started to be rebranded as Nukapedia). Therefore we are promoting them while they are promoting only a competing wiki instead, with no links to us at all. Same with at least some of the sister wikis (some of them, like Answers and PnP, do link to both The Vault and Nukapedia equally).

Therefore, I propose that we remove interlanguage links to Wikia foreign language wikis and only add these when (if) any of these communities decide to leave Wikia as well (not necessarily join Curse, mind you - any wikis that can have a two-side relationship with ours, instead of a one-sided one). I also propose the removal of those other sister wikis that no longer link to The Vault as well (but to leave those that link to both us and Nukapedia). Ausir 00:28, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that seems fair, if they don't want to acknowledge them, then there is no point acknowledging them. If all else fails, we could always translate our own pages. I'm sure someone will want to set up other language wikis at some point. Are you looking for approval, or is there a point I am missing (not intended to be rude, just tired? Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 19:26, 29 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I can see the reason behind it. However, I am thinking of the work load involved and also the fact that it is essentially removing functionally. Personally, I would be more in favor of having a copy on Curse to change the interwiki links to (which may start of as a dead wiki, but could grow even if the respective community doesn't want to move to Curse), rather than remove all the interwiki links. Something is better than nothing right? User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 12:57, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That's what I wanted to suggest initially, but didn't want it to seem like I was pushing my language project again. Surely we can somehow get bots to turn over this wiki through a translator into another language? And we do have 3 bot accounts collectively... If not, that would be more work Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 16:37, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, creating a copy of other people's content (although legally allowed) seems morally wrong to me and might earn us a bad reputation. If the Wikia communities want to move, fine, but if they don't I'd rather not copy their content against their wishes. However, I think we should try to contact at least the active localized wikis and give them a choice before we start removing the interwiki links.
 * On a sidenote, I suspect that simply removing the entries from the interwiki table might result in the corresponding interwiki links being displayed as red links or plain text in articles; we might have to actually remove the interwiki links from articles in order to avoid that. I.e. using the interwiki table as a sort of "on/off switch" might not work. Of course, maybe I misunderstood the OP and this is merely about the footer links on the portal pages? -- Porter21 (talk) 22:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I had not considered the morality of such an action. But now it has been brought up, I would have to agree with your assessment. But I still stand by my view that we should look for an alternative, as opposed to removing content if at all possible. But if no alternative is possible, I am tending to lean towards a neutral stance in the removal of the language links.
 * On the side note, to be honest the whole interwiki table needs a good clean down, but that is a discussion for another time I think. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 19:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)