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There are too many Christian wikis for the current number of users unfortunately. With time I can foresee one of two things happening. Either, some or most of the current Christian wikis close down; or more people start using them and keep them alive. There are only two "safe" ones as I see it - [[Theopedia]] and [[OrthodoxWiki]]. The are a few border-line-ones that may succeed or may disappear - [[WikiChristian]] and [[Christian Knowledge Base]] and [[Wikible]]. The rest I think are going to one by one, fade away unless more people take an interest in [[Christian wikis]] soon. --[[User:Muser|Muser]] 17:54, 11 November 2006 (EST) | There are too many Christian wikis for the current number of users unfortunately. With time I can foresee one of two things happening. Either, some or most of the current Christian wikis close down; or more people start using them and keep them alive. There are only two "safe" ones as I see it - [[Theopedia]] and [[OrthodoxWiki]]. The are a few border-line-ones that may succeed or may disappear - [[WikiChristian]] and [[Christian Knowledge Base]] and [[Wikible]]. The rest I think are going to one by one, fade away unless more people take an interest in [[Christian wikis]] soon. --[[User:Muser|Muser]] 17:54, 11 November 2006 (EST) | ||
| + | :I'd disagree that those are the only "borderline" ones. I'd personally rank CreationWiki as the most active Christian Wiki (as far as I've seen), followed by Theopedia, Christian Knowledge Base, Wikible, WikiChristian, etc. BibleWiki (bible.tmtm.com) is getting less and less active as time goes on. As an admin at each of these, and WikiChristian as well, I've been trying to get them to unify a little more. I don't mean one wiki, but mainly to stop duplicating content. For example, CreationWiki does a superb job on their creation-related articles, and there is absolutely no reason why WikiChristian or any other wiki needs to duplicate that. We just need to make redirects and interwiki links to those wikis. | ||
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| − | + | ::It seems there's a split between Bible Encyclopedias and Christianity Encyclopedias. Wikible and BibleWiki are probably the most extensive Bible Enc's, while Wikible the most technologically advanced. Then there's the "everything else relating to Christianity wikis... Theopedia, WikiChristian, Christianity Wikia (C Knowledge Base), etc. There's even a new one called Jesus-wiki (jesus-wiki.org). | |
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| + | :'''Biggest problem I see with Christian wikis''' | ||
| + | ::We already know duplication of content is a problem, and there probably is too many of the same type of Christian wiki which could make it confusing to new users. However, I think an even larger problem is disorganization. My personal feeling is that WikiChristian is far beyond hope, atleast with the current amount of people editing on it. Many wikis run into these issues of importing a lot of content and either don't know how to use the advanced features of the wiki to organize it, they're too lazy, or they don't have the ability be cause the wiki software is outdated. | ||
| + | :--[[User:Ymmotrojam|Tom]] 21:12, 14 November 2006 (EST) | ||
[[CreationWiki]] is indeed probably the most active of the wikis as Tom points out. I have trouble thinking of it specifically as a Christian wiki. It takes a specific "creation-science" point of view, and from this expands into the realms of biology and Christianity. The majority of its articles are actually about animals, for example its article on [http://creationwiki.org/Dolphin dolphins]. | [[CreationWiki]] is indeed probably the most active of the wikis as Tom points out. I have trouble thinking of it specifically as a Christian wiki. It takes a specific "creation-science" point of view, and from this expands into the realms of biology and Christianity. The majority of its articles are actually about animals, for example its article on [http://creationwiki.org/Dolphin dolphins]. | ||
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For WikiChristian to grow, we just need to keep plugging away and writing new articles about Christian related topics. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 04:59, 15 November 2006 (EST) | For WikiChristian to grow, we just need to keep plugging away and writing new articles about Christian related topics. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 04:59, 15 November 2006 (EST) | ||
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There are too many Christian wikis for the current number of users unfortunately. With time I can foresee one of two things happening. Either, some or most of the current Christian wikis close down; or more people start using them and keep them alive. There are only two "safe" ones as I see it - Theopedia and OrthodoxWiki. The are a few border-line-ones that may succeed or may disappear - WikiChristian and Christian Knowledge Base and Wikible. The rest I think are going to one by one, fade away unless more people take an interest in Christian wikis soon. --Muser 17:54, 11 November 2006 (EST)
- I'd disagree that those are the only "borderline" ones. I'd personally rank CreationWiki as the most active Christian Wiki (as far as I've seen), followed by Theopedia, Christian Knowledge Base, Wikible, WikiChristian, etc. BibleWiki (bible.tmtm.com) is getting less and less active as time goes on. As an admin at each of these, and WikiChristian as well, I've been trying to get them to unify a little more. I don't mean one wiki, but mainly to stop duplicating content. For example, CreationWiki does a superb job on their creation-related articles, and there is absolutely no reason why WikiChristian or any other wiki needs to duplicate that. We just need to make redirects and interwiki links to those wikis.
- Different genres of ChristianWikis
- It seems there's a split between Bible Encyclopedias and Christianity Encyclopedias. Wikible and BibleWiki are probably the most extensive Bible Enc's, while Wikible the most technologically advanced. Then there's the "everything else relating to Christianity wikis... Theopedia, WikiChristian, Christianity Wikia (C Knowledge Base), etc. There's even a new one called Jesus-wiki (jesus-wiki.org).
- Biggest problem I see with Christian wikis
- We already know duplication of content is a problem, and there probably is too many of the same type of Christian wiki which could make it confusing to new users. However, I think an even larger problem is disorganization. My personal feeling is that WikiChristian is far beyond hope, atleast with the current amount of people editing on it. Many wikis run into these issues of importing a lot of content and either don't know how to use the advanced features of the wiki to organize it, they're too lazy, or they don't have the ability be cause the wiki software is outdated.
- --Tom 21:12, 14 November 2006 (EST)
CreationWiki is indeed probably the most active of the wikis as Tom points out. I have trouble thinking of it specifically as a Christian wiki. It takes a specific "creation-science" point of view, and from this expands into the realms of biology and Christianity. The majority of its articles are actually about animals, for example its article on dolphins.
Unfortuately, I agree that WikiChristian is a "borderline" wiki at the moment, but it still has a few users that are writing new material. I think the Bible encyclopedias are in an even more static state. BibleWiki is rarely having any new material added, and although Wikible may be technologically the most advanced, it has very little actual Bible-related content being added either. Jesus-Wiki, at least in English, is basically empty. Nope, I agree that very few Christian wikis are succeeding, which is sad but, that's life. I'm sure eventually one or two will take off. At least Theopedia and OrthodoxWiki are growing.
For WikiChristian to grow, we just need to keep plugging away and writing new articles about Christian related topics. --Graham grove 04:59, 15 November 2006 (EST)
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