Forum:Merge?

Greetings, I'm supergeeky1 from the Star Wars Games Wiki. We recently discovered this wiki and after careful thought, the other users and I feel that it would benefit both the Star Wars Galaxies Wikia and SWGames if our two communities were to merge as one, large gaming encyclopedia. Before I get into details, I'd like to get the largest factor out of the way first; SWGames currently has approx. 2,000 articles. While that may seem small in comparison to your 6,000, SWGames is more "strict" in what type of content we allow. That is, we prefer more organized content. We're also somewhat limited in our amount of active users.

Now that that's out of the way, we've also noticed the Galaxy Wikia's also a bit limited in its amount of active users. That being said, with the combination of these two wikis, the benefits of the merge would without a doubt draw in new interest. We've merged with two other wikis before (the KotOR Wiki and the Battlefront Wiki) and the results we're quite impressive. The site managed to double the amount of articles in a very short period of time and the active users increased by the day. One of the things that really drew us to this wiki is the fact that our articles on the Galaxies games are, quite frankly, very crappy. We have almost no content about the subject and what little content we do have, it could be greatly improved. By merging the two sites together, the articles could be brought up to decency giving the site a better chance to grow properly. Think of it this way: it would be like your site gaining 2,000 articles in an instant. We realize that SWGalaxies Wikia has already been through one move before and that's why we'd like to offer to merge the articles over ourselves. Your users wouldn't have to lay a finger on them. Beyond that, all you'd have to do is leave a notice on this wiki that the two have been merged and new users may find the content on SWGames. The admins on SWGalaxies would be granted administratorship on SWGames and have the same rights they currently have here, although if you have any inactive administrators you'd prefer not having sysop abilities, said users should be left out for security reasons.

If you have anymore questions, feel free to leave me a message. Cheers! &mdash;  supergeeky1   \ m  /  (  My Talk  ) 19:43, 22 September 2008 (UTC)