[Wikia-l] Wikia on Google

[Charitwo (SrA Moliske Sean M)]

Bioshock is 382 articles, almost 1200 pages in the database. There are
certainly more "major wikis" than that. I don't think it's as automatic as
you say it is. How they would it would index Bioshock and keep it that way
is beyond me. *shrugs*

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Christian Williams <christian at wikia.com>
wrote:

> It's calculated automatically by Google, based on what they think the
> major sections of our site is, based on the content on the home page. There
> is no way to control this other than reworking the elemental structure of
> the page and waiting for Google to reindex the page and take another guess.
>
> -Christian
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:18 PM, "Charitwo (SrA Moliske Sean M)" <
> charitwo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you google Wikia, obviously Wikia.com comes up as the first results.
> However there are many sub-results under that.
>
> Bioshock Wiki     Category
> About Wikia        Biggest Wikis
> Search Wikia      Basic Editing Tutorial
> Gaming
>
> My question is, and I never brought it up to anyone because I always
> forget, how are those put there or indexed that way? Some of those links are
> helpful, but Bioshock has been there forever too, seems to be getting a lot
> of publicity (not that it's a bad thing, but think of the other thousands of
> wikis). Does anyone know how these are chosen, and if so, how they can be
> changed? Perhaps we can add in an 8th one (maybe Entertainment Hub to
> compliment Gaming) and swap out Bioshock with another wiki and rotate every
> once and a while (every week?, every other week?, every month?)
>
> Thoughts?
>
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