Forum:Making more people come and making those that come stay

We need to make this wiki better known so more people come and help out. We also need to make those that do help out stay, because there heaps of people that make an account, make a few edits, and then just disappear. Maybe a more enticing welcome message, more complete help pages and some changes to the main page so that it appeals to more people. Oh, and another thing, many pages that seem OK to logged in users, look like hell to those logged out because of those ads. They're in the worst possible place. Dan (talk) 18:40, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow... Great title. Hmm. Yeah. I agree with the users coming in, editing 1-2 pages and keeping quiet thing. Believe me, I've seen many of those. But what can we do? Maybe they're just very busy and will come back some other time. We can't block them. That would discourage others from joining. About making this wiki known. Well, we have the wikia spotlight and we're seeing increase traffic in the D3 pages. But more ads always help. But still, how? And I'm not talking bout the ones anonymous users see. Those can only be modified by Evu or someone. By tinkering with the .css files. And what next? We've done the items. Now we need the monster stats and set items. And, if you don't mind, there are many unused cool D3 images. They'll themselves create more interest. The other thing is that we need to modify the wanted pages, stub thing that is shown above to say that all we need is personalized info regarding the pages. Even opinions. But I can't find the template anywhere. Anyways, there's some very cool Diablo III speculation that needs adding. I'm off. "Ureh in D3!!! Maybe Heaven too!!!" - Mobokill 19:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think the google ads can be modified locally. And I'm in the process of adding those to pages, but they need context. Also, are we allowed to put ads on stuff for this wiki? I mean is there a wikia rule that forbids wikis from making their own ads? I may find some places that could host our ads for free, I hope. Add the speculation immediately, because D3 is the main "selling point" of this wiki. Dan (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've found the template you we're looking for. The one at the top of the page. It's MediaWiki:Sitenotice and there is tutorial on how to use it here. 20:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)