As a bit of a follow up to my earlier piece on Wikia, I’ve gone to the trouble of outlining some specific things you ought to know when creating a Wikia wiki. Don’t see these articles as a personal attack on Wikia, who, on the whole provide a very good service. Consider them a rant against the general over-reliance on advertising at free content websites, something that’s becoming increasingly prevalent in this current economic climate, and something that cheeses me off slightly.
Look out for more posts on this subject in the future and perhaps some sort of archive bringing all my Wikia pieces together.
I’ve witnessed the downfall of Wikia due to its increased reliance on advertising first hand in the past year. Whilst I don’t want to dwell on the events of precisely one year ago, I decided to breifly revisit the subject with a general account of what happened from my point of view. It can be found here, and is the first piece I’ve published at HubPages.com, an online content hub (as it were) for writers and businesspeople to post articles.
It’s been somewhat painful, though I hope to have exorcised one or two demons. Hmm, I know that’s unlikely, but it was nice to vent my spleen again.
As you might have read in the title, some rather enterprising person has translated my Uncyclopedia Poo Lit Surprise-winning article Age of Umpires into the Polish language. I’m kind of honoured, but at the same time nobody knows I wrote the thing. Excellente!
Excerpt:
Gracz zaczyna na stadionie w Wigan w District League, a jego celem jest awansowanie w krykietowej…
Harry Yack’s had a Teletext makeover! Get down to the Retro Yakking Today blog and check out its new, tweaked header. The change marks a wider revamp for the site, which will start to focus on the retro subjects promised in the title as well as a variety of new topics including opinions and such thinly disguised as parody news stories. Currently updated with two posts per day, but I don’t know how long this will last for.
Just catching up on some more of these vids I’ve uploaded in the last couple of weeks. There are some more over at the Hindleyak YouTube channel but they’re of dubious quality so I ain’t gonna link to them here just now.
