There're three different terms being thrown around at this point that should be distinguished: Wiki, Wikia, and Wikipedia.
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Wiki"
is a generic term for a kind of software that allows users to edit content on web pages. Anyone who can set up a website can set up a wiki; indeed, for the MIT Mystery Hunt, my team uses wiki software to keep track of our progress, all of it set up on our own server.
"
Wikipedia"
is a particular website that implements wiki software for a particular purpose. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the discussion here.
"
Wikia"
is a different website that allows users to set up wikis for their own purposes, and provides them with a certain skeletal structure similar in design to Wikipedia's. That's where the DROD Wiki has been set up.
So people browsing Wikipedia aren't going to casually find themselves linked to the DROD wiki; they're two wholly separate systems. As far as I can tell, Wikia is at its best when it's being used as a place for thousands of fans to collaborate on an encyclopedic set of knowledge on a particular topic. I suspect the best known, and certainly best named, is
Wookieepedia, which covers the Star Wars universe in far more detail than you even want to know exists. Others listed on the "
featured"
page include Harry Potter, Pro Wrestling, the Boston Celtics, GI Joe...actually, you can get a pretty good sense of what's there by going to their
Most active and
Largest lists. Again, they're things that have a lot of followers who need a central place to bring together all their information; fandoms, and also recipes, vintage sewing patterns, and so forth.
But again, the two crucial facts are (a) Wikia works best for things with lots of fans and lots of information, and (b) it's there as a reference for those fans. DROD has neither a lot of fans nor a lot of information. And no one goes to Wikia to say, "
I'm looking for something new; let's see what's here"
; they go when there's something in particular they need to know about a particular thing. (For instance, I've found myself there more than once when doing factchecking on puzzles; if there's a fact in a puzzle about Star Wars or Star Trek or the like and getting to the original source isn't practical, it's the pages edited by the serious fans that I'll trust the most.)
Now, if the DROD team wanted to turn drod.caravelnet.com into a wiki and let us update the information there (about the games, about the Eighth, and so forth), with certain protected pages, that'd make sense to me. For one thing, it'd keep DROD information in essentially one place; for another, they can maintain some creative control over it. But I feel like...oh, never mind, you know by now what I feel like.
Long story short: no, I don't think drod.wikia.com is going to attract new players.