Judging something by views is elitist, and by that logic this wiki should be 100% about Forrestfire101.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

This isn't a worldwide obsession like the Star Wars universe. These are Lego videos that are lucky to get a couple of thousand views. In most cases, there is no need for dedicated location and character pages and these details could easily be included in a film or series' own page. There's not usually a huge amount of interest or details anyway and it would come across as completely self-serving.

I also think that some level of exclusivity would have to be maintained and a page should be deemed notable enough to be made. Right now, the Wiki is clogged up by people making pages for themselves and anything else they want and it really appears badly to anyone visiting for the first time. Wikipedia wouldn't let you make a page for whatever you like (and for good reason), so why should this? I'm not saying it should be for top-tier popularity only, but letting anyone make a page for anything they make would be a mess, and is part of the reason why this wiki is currently not taken seriously.

EDIT: This was written with the idea of the wiki becoming more officially associated with BiM in mind

Last edited by Penta (October 21, 2014 (11:38am))

I'm kind of on the fence about this. It's hard for me to see a problem with having minor works if the articles are formatted and linked to the pages about the directors, but some kind of "notability" criteria might be a good way to regulate what is and isn't on the wiki in the future.

POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO DIFFERENCES...
There appear to be two main directions people would like to go in.

1) Information to richen the universes brickfilms are set in with information about the fictional side of brickfilms, such as: story locations, character pages, universe history etc. People would be able to express their creativity and make their brickfilms more full.

2) Factual information about the history of brickfilming itself and important, significant brickfilms and the creators of those brickfilms as well as information about the tools used to create brickfilms. This information allows people to learn more about the brickfilming process.

At the moment Brikifilms tries to talk about both fiction and non-fictional elements and this is rather confusing. After a long discussion I think it would be best if the two subjects were split into 2 wikis.

1) The first wiki would take the existing Brikifilms content and change it about to focus more on the brickfilming canon.

• It would be run by the existing Brikfilms admin team, although more would almost certainly be added.

• It would move to a different URL to highlight its focus more on canon elements. http://brickfilmcanon.wikia.com.

2) The second wiki would start from scratch with a plan to focus on certain notable brickfilms and brickfilmers. It would nicely tie in to the Brickfilm Archival Project.

• It would aim to be headed by Bricks In Motion moderators and eventually respected wiki contributors.

• It would use http://brickfilms.wikia.com as its URL to highlight its focus on brickfilming more generally.

• However, for now editing is limited on this new wiki while guidelines are decided.

The previous Brikifilms wiki will be effectively abandoned. All of its useful content will be moved to the appropriate new wiki and the aim is to eventually close or have it redirect.

Edited URLs to reflect what has actually occurred

Last edited by BoatsAreRockable (December 29, 2014 (05:29am))

This sounds like a great way to expand and keep everyone happy. I'm glad this discussion has gone as smoothly as it has and I await the new wiki.