Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1294345-20130903120904/@comment-2142533-20130903131519

First of all, just to clarify:


 * - if you want international versions in another Wiki.


 * - if you want international versions to stay in this Wiki.

I vote to, and I hope members of this community could read this and understand my stand, and also have a say about it.

Survivor has been in the air even before the US versions was aired. Many things in other versions have inspired activity in the current versions: the Island of the Dead twist inspired Redemption Island. There is the Purple Rock twist from the original version for the Purple Rock in the US. The "Couples Showdown" inspired the Blood vs. Water twist (originally it was supposed to be that, but it still has the similar aspect of having 2 castaways connected before the game).

The pros and cons of having it stay:
 * Whenever someone that watches international versions but doesn't watch the local versions yet may search through the internet. By putting it in this wiki, it would be able to make other castaways see the happenings of other versions, without going to Wikipedia (which is less detailed but does have a link navigator on the bottom screen).
 * It would attract people from other countries to possibly contribute on their own versions, if they have watched the US version also, and cite similarities between versions.
 * There is not much difference between the different versions: there is a voting history, an episode summary, Reward Challenges, tribes, Immunity Challenges, castaways, and a Sole Survivor. That means we could put those info here, to also minimize making additional templates for another wiki.
 * It would make the Wiki more broad (which a Wiki online encyclopedia is supposed to be) and not just limit in one section only (which as of now, is still limited).
 * There are currently ongoing series from other versions still on the air, and they don't have any Wiki to put information yet. Now, if they are long time Wikia readers, I am pretty sure they would search for .wikia.com first. But with so many franchises, making many Wikis for each franchise would be hard to do. So it is possible that they would search "survivor.wikia.com" instead. With that, putting all of the international versions' articles in here would make a central place for all versions (currently airing or not), without making a specialized Wiki for it which could also contain only limited info (in which its information could be found in the Wiki itself). And with other versions being active, the Wiki would not be stagnant with it.
 * If this project would be fully implemented, the ones that would handle moderating these would make sure that the US versions would be the top priority, but making sure that the international versions would get notice for people to check out. It would not be messy as others would say, as some Wikis already have implemented adding other versions on their Wiki site by emphasizing what are currently on air so that those sections of the Wiki would be kept active, which we would do the same here.

So here are some aspects why I think there is no need as Crtha might say to add another one. To tell, I don't know why it would be difficult to find US pages, and when you type an article link it would put you to the US page first before any other (like if you type Airai, you would get the US tribe name first, where a text on the first part of the article could contain the link on the other version's Airai tribe, and the twists priorities are always the US).

Also, we are still in the development phase. If there are suggestions about categories, we could integrate them to make it more compact. Also, suggestions about labeling elements from other versions (like do we need to put "(Philippines castaway)" on castaways from the Philippine version?) could be considered to minimize confusion.

I would add that we have not yet completed the Philippine version pages due to me and Ian are busy (I modding Survivor Wikia: Korea on the Survivor ORG Wiki, while Ian is doing thesis for college). However, we would attend to that after a while, as some of the pages are already finished.

So that is why I think it should be added there, and any additional reasons why I think should be added I would follow-up, and if there are any objections I could reply.