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→Addressing the issue of brackets for "(overview)" or "(user-name)" etc.: Responses copied from CKB
::Please centralize discussion related to my dev page at [[Wikichristian talk:Topics]]. --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 11:10, 3 August 2006 (PDT)
===Thoughts from Ben (CKB)===
''I'm copying this from the Christianity Knowledge Base since it brings up some more collaboration ideas. --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 11:08, 10 August 2006 (PDT)''
Here's another problem with Christian wikis: They're hosted on private sites, therefore there is no "centrality" to them. I think ''this'' wiki, since it's hosted by [[Wikipedia:Wikia|Wikia Inc.]], is more "central". I think it might be good for this wiki to specialize in apologetics.
What we could do is perhaps form some sort of ChristianWiki Foundation (sort of like the [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki Foundation|MediaWiki Foundation]]) and, under that heading, have a "Christian Meta Wiki", which would work like [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Meta-Wiki], and under that heading have different projects: One for encyclopedic articles, one for general Christian apologetics that links to wikis of different denominations to show what they think on different topics, one for an international church directory, one for Christian music of all kinds, and perhaps some other projects as well. New projects and/or the joining of existing projects would be discussed at the "Meta-Wiki". If it was done this way, we wouldn't be modeled after Wikipedia, but after the foundation that started Wikipedia - so we'd have all of the advantages without the drawbacks, you see? --[http://rlds.wikia.com/wiki/User:BenMcLean BenMcLean] 13:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
:I attempted to respond to this same letter and work with Graham at WikiChristian, but I wasn't getting any interest there; plus, the MediaWiki version there is grossly outdated, making it hard to work on. '''Ben''', I like your thoughts about a Christian Meta, but I think CKB could probably serve as this central hub. It is already on Wikia, providing a reliable server location. We could redesign this Community Portal (CP) (maybe even the Welcome page) to emphasize a "Collaboration" page (or set of pages, maybe featuring the Forum namespace). I don't think we would need a whole, separate, site just for collaboration purposes. This CP could also emphasize a separate CKB-only CP. I like your IRC idea below, too.
:Also, in working on a [http://www.wikible.org/en/Wikible:Christian_wikis Christian wikis] chart over at Wikible, I noticed that CKB and ChristWiki have very different page counts (528 vs. 11911). Why would ChristWiki have so many more considering that it's a fork of CKB? Does Wikia calculate it differently? See my chart and footnote for more details. --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 20:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
