Recently, site admin and creator of the German translation branch Dr_Grom posted a guide for helping others create their own language branch wikis: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1822336/how-to-create-a-branch-of-the-scp-foundation
He would like staff to take a look at it and approve it before it gets posted, etc.
Technical Team, Internet Outreach Team, take a look at this please?
No issue with any of the content, from both Technical and IO perspectives.
Looks good to me!
Admin, SCP Wiki
Thanks everybody :)
I've seen that along with the viewport-metatag you are having two other metatags on the frontpage. A google-verification metatag and the metatag "description" containing "Front Page". What does the latter do and is this metatag recommended? Are there other pages that should have metatags?
Btw.: Crayne said:
I'm not seeing any ads on the German branch?
Well, not as long as you are logged in and/or are using an adblocker. Ads are shown on top, bottom or either on most branches:
Top and Bottom: DE, FR, ES, TH
Bottom only: EN — maybe you didn't deactivate the Wikidot-Bottom-Bar in the Admin-Panel?
No ads: RU, KO, CN, PL, JA
I think real ads can only be deactivated with a pro-account though.
Bottom only: EN — maybe you didn't deactivate the Wikidot-Bottom-Bar in the Admin-Panel?
We have a unique ad setup because we got too big for Wikidot to allow us to deactivate ads even with a pro account. This was the result of a compromise with Wikidot; we can't switch it off.
At one point, this was unique to us, but it might not be anymore.
I've seen that along with the viewport-metatag you are having two other metatags on the frontpage. A google-verification metatag and the metatag "description" containing "Front Page". What does the latter do and is this metatag recommended? Are there other pages that should have metatags?
I'm pretty sure no other meta tags are necessary for the correct functioning of the site, though I can't tell you why those are in place. They were instituted before I took over from Aelanna, and as far as I know, nothing was communicated to me about their purpose. Kind of a "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" situation.
I've added some words about meta tags (item 1.5), i'd appreciate if you could have a look if that is correct.
While correct, I'd personally leave out the bit about the metag on the front page. All it's going to do is raise questions, and the tag's not required for a spin-off site to function correctly. The rest seems fine. :)
French ambassade here.
Went through the guide, and I think it's really great to have done such a thing in this professional way. The German branch has found the man of the situation in Grom I guess.
But even if there is milestones, etc, I think there is still something interesting we could add. Let me explain.
Every branch, I think, through its evolution, as seen different "periods". If you look at the really first SCPs and the current new contents, there is a lot of difference.
As an example, I'm going to take the french branch I know, it's surprising.
At the beginning, we had only translations (as far as I know I wasn't there on the first day, but long enough to have seen it evolving), and little by little, we had our own creations. And with this came our recurrent elements who became the "pillars" of the french branch universe.
And I think that the creations, and the developpement of a lore who really belongs to the branch (like having its own universe, recurrent characters, running gags, while staying in the mother-universe who's the SCPniverse) is really helping to develop both site and community :
- Having its own content helps the author to feel respected, and it keeps them going for more creations. Doing so, it develops the site.
- Creating a universe who belongs to the community (because it created it) helps people feel involved, and by doing so, it keeps them writing and creating more and more.
Of course. You will indeed have not-that-good-quality content at first. X-men, Mary/Gary Sue, but once you have an involved community, ready to make the universe it created evolves, you can raise the standard. I mean. Look at some stuff like Able or 096. They are definitely some xmen kind of SCPs. But they helped creating hype and thanks to that, the site developped.
We just finished to go through this phase a year ago at -FR, and now we are going to the next phase of developement who is all about canons, 001, GOI, and more philosophics SCP. We have done so because we gained in maturity when going through the first phase I described above.
To conclude, I think we should maybe think more about how to manage the commitment of the pioneers of the new branches. Maybe this new not-that-motivated member in the German branch could be one day a German Clef, or Bright. Who knows ?
I'm not sure if I get your point.
We are having very mixed activity. Some are translating as if they were getting paid, others are writing one DE-SCP after another (one of our most active authors doesn't even speak english at all). Of course we had the "very bad translations/oc"-phase, especially when importing from the CP-Wikia. And the "SCP is real !!!1111" users. And the "lets make some merchandizing"-phase. Now we are in the "finding our place in the foundation-verse and community"-phase I think.
Though what statement should be made about this?
If you want, I can include a "Words from Dr. Grym"-section somewhere in the guide ;)
The point is : we talk a lot about how to organize the site, but not enough on how to motivate the community to work for it and progress. See what I mean ?
