Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1294345-20130903120904/@comment-5021832-20130903140438



People above have said that this is "Survivor Wiki," not "Survivor US Wiki." But that's the very issue: it is. "Survivor" is the US version. "Survivor Philippines" is the Filipino version. "Australian Survivor" is the Australian. "Expedition Robinson" is the Swedish. They are not "Survivor" full-stop.

I personally think that the International versions should be housed in a separate wiki site. I would guess that 99% of the traffic coming through the site is only ever going to be for the flagship American version. It's the most known, the most popular and I believe, the only one aired all across the globe. It's been on air for fourteen years now. It has its own cast of characters, its own themes and ideas, its own mythos. It deserves its own site.

Now I don't object to cataloging the international versions, but I believe that shoehorning them into the main site is going to cause confusion to casual readers and muddle the existing structure (messy stats pages, plethora of redirects and disambiguations, etc). We've got duplicate tribe names. We've got twists and challenges that may appear in both the flagship US version and international versions that will either muddle the existing pages, or create a slew of 'duplicate' pages within the same wiki. Furthermore, we have to drastically expand our categorizing system, now having to specify which pages are US and which are International.

This is not to mention the impact to the main wiki over the course of this drastic redesign - the construction of the International coverage is going to be very slow going, particularly given how few dedicated editors are going to be familiar with the international versions. We'll have half-finished articles, dead-end links, messy formatting and inconsistent coverage for a LONG TIME. And considering how scarce a lot of the information is for the existing American content, the wiki could quickly go from a mostly reliable source to a mess of broken links and incomplete pages which will discredit the wiki's reliability. Practically, it makes more sense to locate the "website under construction" remotely. As for templates (as Zjzr mentioned), it's not that hard to copy the relevant templates into new templates on a new wiki.

So in conclusion:

Keep the main wiki for the US flagship, put the international versions on their own wiki (say, "Survivor Wiki International"). There's nothing to stop us cross-referencing between the sites: for instance, including a link on a Twist page to the corresponding Twist page on the International Wiki. But at the end of the day, I think it will keep everything simpler to maintain, simpler to navigate and simpler to use if we keep them separate.