Entertainment:Project:About
The Entertainment Spore @ WikiSpore (hopefully soon to become Wikikultura) is meant to be an all-encompassing, ridiculously-detailed, questionably-accurate database of any and all pop culture, broadly construed. We are part of the Wikimedia movement (which you may remember from such films as "Wikipedia" and "Wiktionary"). The beauty of this place lies in its ability to broadly analyze all of pop culture's flaws, quirks, and details in a way even a monkey can understand.
How we are different from other wikis
In general
- The Wikidata links Template:Qlink. They're a requirement enforced by WikiSpore, but they a) give this place a unique character and b) help link the place to the rest of the Wikimedia omniverse.
- Generally, we prefer a less clinical, more lighthearted tone. It's way too hard to be clinically deadpan serious about things like My Little Pony.
- No fair use images, please. I know this is a wiki about pop-culture, and most modern pop-culture is copyrighted, but this is a restriction caused by Wikimedia/WikiSpore, not us.
- No advertising means we don't have to bend down to advertisers' wills.
- We usually prefer prose to bullet points.
Wikipedia
We value and encourage fancruft. In fact, this was started as a way to get fancruft off of Wikipedia and onto a more appropriate home. Original research is permitted, to whatever extent is needed to compile pop-cultural minutiae.
Fandom wikis
Fandom is separated into several subdomains with varying policies and guidelines. We just have the one site. (Right now, we're in incubation at WikiSpore, but we hope to have our own wiki someday.) As you can notice, we have the actual Wikipedia skin around here.
Miraheze "reception wikis"
When they were around, the "reception wikis" were separated based on two things: genre of work, and whether something was considered good or bad. This is just one wiki.
Tropes wikis (TVTropes, AllTheTropes)
Most trope wikis separate work pages into main, trivia, and YMMV pages, and maybe some others. We have all of these on the main work page. We use MediaWiki, while the largest trope wiki uses a highly-modified PMWiki.
Fanlore
We would value slightly more focus on the works themselves, but documenting fandom is still a big part of that. Also, they use a non-commercial license which is generally incompatible with the Wikimedia movement; we use regular old CC-BY-SA.
KnowYourMeme
Besides the vanilla MediaWiki, we prefer to focus on the pop culture side of things, though articles about memes are still welcome here.
Everything2
Everything2 is proprietary, not quite a wiki, and has no clear topic. Over here, we do it the wiki way (specifically, the MediaWiki way), and pop culture is our main area of focus.
UrbanDictionary
While UrbanDictionary is a big inspiration here, it is based on a proprietary codebase, while this is pure vanilla MediaWiki. Also, we would prefer to mainly focus on pop culture.
RationalWiki
RationalWiki editors would probably feel right at home here; we both love snark and don't like being too formal. The only real difference is that RW is about science, while we're about pop culture, broadly construed.