User:KeybladeSpyMaster/Gadget Lab/Gadget Shelf 4

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki, The Keyhole, and the Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki are both apart of a larger organization currently known as "The Greater Wiki". That is, they serve as components of this larger wiki. In the past, this "Greater Wiki" has never been truly acknowledged, but it is under Operation: Keychain. The three wikis work as a part of one “larger” wiki to document the many aspects of the Kingdom Hearts series.

THE GREATER WIKI
The content here applies to the entire Greater Wiki as an entity, as well as things that can be done on all three wikis.

Nature

 * 1) What is the nature of the three wikis (khwiki.com, kingdomhearts.wikia.com, and kingdomheartsfanon.wikia.com)?
 * 2) Promote the aims and goals of each community
 * 3) The three wikis work as a part of one “larger” wiki to document the many aspects of the Kingdom Hearts series.

Name

 * 1) We need a name for “the greater wiki” and, if we use the Kingdom Hearts Wiki for the greater wiki, we need a name for the site at khwiki.com.

How can we unify and better our relationship?

 * 1) Expand About pages on all three wikis to cover the history of each wiki.
 * 2) Inter-wiki recognition/linking/advertising
 * 3) Encourage cross editing
 * 4) More joint projects/events, like the Magazine, Podcast, User Trivia, etc.

Expansion

 * 1) Kingdom Hearts Answers
 * 2) Kingdom Hearts Wiki (French, Spanish, German)
 * 3) More than just wikis?

Community

 * 1) Actively engage/promote the communities (How?)

Nature

 * 1) The Kingdom Hearts Wiki is the Greater Wiki's professional, encyclopedic wiki on the Kingdom Hearts games and merchandise.

How can we unify and better our relationship?

 * 1) Advertise projects from The Keyhole at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
 * 2) More joint projects/events, like the Magazine, Podcast, User Trivia, etc.

Nature

 * 1) Identify The Keyhole's purpose

How can we unify and better our relationship?

 * 1) Advertise projects from The Keyhole at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
 * 2) More joint projects/events, like the Magazine, Podcast, User Trivia, etc.
 * 3) Increase cross-editing between the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and The Keyhole.

Nature

 * 1) The Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki is the Greater Wiki's site for hosting/promoting/documenting Kingdom Hearts fanon, including fanfictions, art, etc.

How can we unify and better our relationship?

 * 1) Advertise the Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki
 * 2) Join Projects

Purpose of The Keyhole
BEFORE YOU DISCUSS: Due to the nature of the discussion during today's Roundtable, there are a couple things I, KeybladeSpyMaster, need to warn you of.
 * 1) Seriously, anyone starts coming off as a jerk, rude, etc., and will result in an immediate Warning. It's really not necessary. This is a wiki. We really don't need to be rude, because at the end, it's a website. None of us are making a living off of it to be so darn angry. This applies to me, too. If you guys think I need to go, I'll go take a break for a day. But we don't need the rudeness. It gets us no where.
 * 2) Ultimately, we can't expect the most perfect idea where no one suffers. One wiki will have to most likely suffer something. It's the nature of the discussion. What we are looking for is a solution that will allow for us to grow together with the least amount of suffering and problems for either wiki.
 * 3) We're open to all ideas, seriously. Throw your best shot, we'll consider it.

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We've realised that this issue is much more impactful on the future of the Keyhole than we originally thought. If it's alright, we'd like to take some time to meet up amongst ourselves for discussion, so we can return to this forum with our thoughts and feelings more organised 07:05, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Unification
The content on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is what makes the wiki special. However, the wiki is seriously behind in covering the series. In addition, the way the wiki presents some of this content could use some updating. Finally, to fulfill the goals of Operation: Keychain, the presentation of content needs to be promoted, and for that, we may need to find better ways of presenting it.

Kingdom Hearts Wiki
How can we improve the content on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki?
 * 1) Link/group the multiple pages of coverage of each game, world, etc.
 * 2) Pages (some may not apply)
 * 3) Main page
 * 4) Gallery
 * 5) Card
 * 6) Game:
 * 7) Walkthrough
 * 8) Let's Play
 * 9) Form
 * 10) Merchandise
 * 11) Soundtracks/Music
 * 12) Manga
 * 13) Strategy Guides
 * 14) Novels
 * 15) χ Cards
 * 16) On occasion, we could probably merge multiple content (links to music, walkthroughs, Let's Play episodes, Merchandise, etc.) on one page called “Other” or “More…”
 * 17) Solutions?
 * 18) Navigation bar
 * 19) Add tabs to Suite
 * 20) Maps of the areas.
 * 21) Such maps are provided in the Kingdom Hearts II Official Strategy Guide, so those can be scanned. What about the rest? Can we rip those out of the games? Perhaps they belong in the Walkthrough space?
 * 22) Maps: space? (Probably not...)
 * 23) Project: Cards
 * 24) Project: Coliseum
 * 25) Project: Gummi
 * 26) Project: Image Renovation
 * 27) Project: Items
 * 28) Project: Music
 * 29) Create remaining pages for individual tracks
 * 30) Upload remaining tracks
 * 31) Finish navigation
 * 32) See if there's a way to upload full tracks and still protect those tracks and the wiki from copyright infringement (protect the tracks from being downloaded and turning the wiki into a file-hosting site).
 * 33) Project: Video
 * 34) See Section III: Video
 * 35) Project: World
 * 36) Project: SHOUT
 * 37) Project: χ
 * 38) Perhaps work with people like Everglow and KH13 to better the wiki's coverage of this game.
 * 39) Upload Cards, organize as discussed.
 * 40) Fill out coverage pages for Items.

The Keyhole
What content can we add to The Keyhole to increase traffic? PURPOSE MUST BE DEFINED FIRST
 * 1) Advertise the theory/speculation/fan site aspect of The Keyhole. It's no different in direction to various other fan sites with forums dedicated to this stuff, and The Keyhole is an entire site for this, not a single forum. However, few know about these capabilities.

Discussion
Videos are a key form of presentation of information. They present information, ideas, and entertainment in a way text and images cannot. They have become an important part of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, if the wiki had access to making such videos. As part of Operation: Keychain, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki will attempt to increase its access to people that can make such videos, and will promote them through means such as the wiki's YouTube channel, as well as on the wiki itself. It also needs these videos for presentation of content, such as game strategies and walkthroughs.

Kingdom Hearts Wiki
What kinds of videos do we need? What kinds of videos do we want to produce?
 * 1) For Project: Video
 * 2) Full game Walkthroughs
 * 3) Walkthrough-space, which allows for greater attraction/attention to the Walkthrough text.
 * 4) To differentiate from the Let's Play, these should probably be without commentary.
 * 5) Videos for individual battles.
 * 6) Game-space
 * 7) YouTube Channel
 * 8) Promotion through Social Media
 * 9) Livestreams?
 * 10) I believe Twitch is a good way to do this, so perhaps we should consider getting a Twitch account for the wiki?

The Keyhole

 * 1) Livestreams?
 * 2) I believe Twitch is a good way to do this, so perhaps we should consider getting a Twitch account for the wiki? Perhaps promote this as a project of The Keyhole.
 * 3) Others?
 * 4) Additional videos by other users that do not wish a daunting project like a full walkthrough, but still want to make videos could be promoted through The Keyhole, which encourages people to check The Keyhole out.

Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki
Inapplicable...for now...

Users
Who can we contact to help us make such videos? Who is available to help?
 * 1) GrandmasterArcuturus
 * 2) Everglow???
 * 3) Cyberman65???
 * 4) Others???

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has a strong community, but it is small. The aim of Operation: Keychain is to grow that community. One way is to host and create more community/social-oriented projects that focus less on the games, though they still are based on them.

Magazine and Podcast
How can we improve the magazine?
 * 1) Advertise the magazine. Part of the purpose of the magazine was to see if we could get people to want to join the wikis to participate in the magazine.

How can we improve the podcast?
 * 1) Professionalize the podcast
 * 2) Advertise the podcast on all possible social media sites. Get more people excited for each episode. Get discussion on the episodes.

Forums

 * 1) New forums, which would be on The Keyhole and linked at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki. The forums would cover topics similar to what's found at KHInsider's Forums (see Creative Corner and Community Lounge) and would encourage the discussion of theories, speculation, etc.
 * 2) Consider closing the Twilight Town Library and The Usual Spot Forums, and moving/merging them to The Keyhole, where they align more to the (presumed, but I could be wrong) purpose/aim of The Keyhole.
 * 3) Increase traffic to The Beach (the non-KH Forum at The Keyhole).

News

 * 1) News extension to the Wikis. Perhaps through affiliation of an existing news site, or by expanding the Trinity Archives or Jiminy's Journal (the latter would be more daunting and difficult). The fact is that many people would rather know what's coming up over what is in released games. We ought to put emphasis in covering recent news, and use that coverage to advertise our coverage of game content/strategies.
 * 2) Coverage of Kingdom Hearts events. We need to figure out where users live relative to Kingdom Hearts events, and the capabilities of these and other users in attending these events. We should also encourage users to cover events for us. Coverage of these events should probably be covered on The Keyhole, regardless of whether we affiliate with another news site.

Discussion
The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has grown in the past four years to include a ton of content and work, and with that comes a need to refine our means of maintaining and establishing administration of the sites. This includes the maintenance of the site's appearance, as well as providing adequate available staff for the site.

Policies
Over the last nine years since the creation of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, the wiki's staff, past and present, has created tons of policies that affect both content and user behavior on the wiki. While they many are well known, they are not well documented, being decided on either the IRC or in forums. This aspect of Operation: Keychain aims to organize all the policies into a searchable and organized directory.


 * 1) Gather and sort out all the policies into different pages, with a main hub under KHWiki:Policy
 * 2) http://www.khwiki.com/User:Xion4ever/Forum_Archive_Catalog_%28The_World_that_Never_was%29
 * 3) Update, revise, and/or clarify existing policy pages that are outdated.
 * 4) Additional Policies
 * 5) User Behavior: “Users will not be tolerated if they attempt to impose their opinions or actions on the wiki solely because they have been on the wiki longer, because they are current or former staff, or because they feel they are superior to other users in any way. All users are equally subject to the policies and rules of the wiki, and will be subject to the immediate consequences if they attempt to impose superiority by any of these or other unlisted means.”
 * 6) A service to have users report misbehaving users to the wiki's email, which would make it anonymous. Certain users/staff would have access to the email, and the reporting user would have to use the specific name of whoever they wish to address the issue in the subject line. This prevents interference if the email is to report one of the users/staff that monitors the email.

Staff
Organize/List additional staff and administration for additional site projects. These staff members may not need additional powers, but should be listed for the purpose of contact and such.
 * 1) Magazine Staff
 * 2) Podcast Staff
 * 3) Let's Play Staff
 * 4) Social Media Staff (See Section VII: Social Media)
 * 5) Others?

Site appearance and Functionality

 * 1) Could The Keyhole use an update to the Main Page?
 * 2) Update the skin as a whole.
 * 3) Additional functionality to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki? What kinds? What for?

Site appearance and Functionality

 * 1) Could The Keyhole use an update to the Main Page?
 * 2) Update the skin as a whole.

Staff

 * 1) Organize/Establish an active and engaging staff.

Site appearance and Functionality

 * 1) Update the Main Page

Affiliations are how the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and other sites worldwide spread the word of their existence. In addition, affiliation allows for the Kingdom Hearts Wiki to have more credibility in regards to search engines, as engines like Google and Bing use algorithms that, among other factors,. As such, Operation: Keychain aims to increase our affiliations with a number of notable and well-known Kingdom Hearts websites across the internet.

AFFILIATIONS
Ties in with Section I. The Greater Wiki: In some cases, one wiki may be affiliated with a site, but the other is not (most cases, The Keyhole is the affiliated site, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is not). Perhaps we should consider unifying our affiliation system into one? Convince all our affiliates to link to both sites?

Websites

 * 1) KH13
 * 2) Kingdom Hearts Insider
 * 3) Destiny Islands
 * 4) If we wanted and were able to, we could take some sort of hold/involvement in this news site, which has slowed down in activity over the last year, at least in comparison to its coverage of Kingdom Hearts news up to the release of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX. We could make it essentially our own by contributing articles and advertising them.
 * 5) KH-Vids
 * 6) SQEX.INFO
 * 7) Seeing as this girl is a translator (we need more of those) and is able to attend many of the events, I think we should look into this one.
 * 8) DisneyWiki
 * 9) Yes, I know. However, Disney is a huge chunk to the Kingdom Hearts series, not to mention the amount of traffic the DisneyWiki gets on Wikia alone. We could probably pull a couple of strings in our favor out of this affiliation if it goes through.
 * 10) Final Fantasy Wiki Repair relationship with Final Fantasy Wiki?
 * 11) KHWorld Forums (Spanish)
 * 12) Expand the wikis into other languages?
 * 13) KHRecharged
 * 14) Others?

YouTube
See Section III. Videos
 * 1) Cyberman65 (check if affiliation still valid, and if we can get anything out of this)
 * 2) Everglow
 * 3) Others?

Others?
The Wiki Alliance for Responsible Editing, or WAFRE, is an alliance of wikis that have agreed to upholding certain standards on wikis everywhere. WAFRE is meant to be a society of sorts, allowing any wiki that is willing to uphold those same standards on their wiki, and to defend them when necessary. By using the pressure of multiple member wikis, WAFRE aims to protect all wikis from violating the rights of other wikis. Despite its failure earlier this fall, Operation: Keychain aims to make this alliance a reality.

WIKI ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE EDITING

 * 1) This project totally failed because of lack of support from other wikis. But, this alliance/society isn't a bad idea, and I think it should still exist and we should try and use it how we wanted, and attract other wikis that way. We could even attract the original intended wikis.

Standards
What does WAFRE stand for? What standards do we uphold, and when do we take action?
 * 1) Plagiarism
 * 2) Administrative discretion.

Discussion
Heck yes to this group. Plagiarism is already listed, but we need to define it for this group/ourselves here. Keep in mind, we'll have to keep the creative commons license and any other rules for "Wiki" content in mind. Nice images by the way, KSM. ^_^ 20:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC)