Proposed Site Cleanups
Hi all,
For a long period of time, due to life commitments on the whole, I haven't been able to contribute to the site as much as I would have wanted to. While I'm hoping that will begin to change, being away for so long has given me the opportunity to check in occasionally and see the site as a casual observer. As a result, I've put together a list of proposed changes/cleanups for the site and was keen to hear others feedback on whether they think they would be useful changes or not...
- Infoboxes
I've always found the infoboxes we've had quite bland. The ones we had originally fell in line with Corriepedia and the EastEnders Encyclopedia originally but, following a Wikia upgrade in 2015, we were approached to upgrade our infoboxes to ensure t…
Plans for 2015
So as we move into 2015, the Wikia will be celebrating its fifth birthday... However, although set up on February 4th 2010, the resource lay mostly inactive until 2013 where we've been steadily building up our content since and though we're still far from the resource we intend to be, 2014 has been a great year for us and as things stand we now have a page for nearly every episode and cast lists, image and detailed plots are continuing to be added steadily.
The goals for 2015 will be much the same as last year but the main focus for the start of the year will be to add as many accurate cast lists onto the Wikia as possible, if anyone can help with this, it would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to you if…
The 1970s as it stands
A small report on the state of the 1970s on the Wikia at the moment. Out of a total of 542 episodes this decade - 355 have images, 344 have detailed plots and all 542 have episode cast lists making us the only site in the public domain to carry cast lists for the entire decade! If anybody has any additions in regards of images and plot information, we please welcome you to add them. Some of the casts also need verification, particuarly around the middle years and while that's something I'll be looking to improve at a later date, if anyone is able to verify the credits with the cast lists at the end of the episodes, it would be much appreciated. Next up, the 1980s...
Development at Emmerdale Wikia
Okay, so anyone who's visited the Wikia over the weekend may have noticed we've started to change our appearance a little bit. Some of our users may have noticed that from the outset, we've always followed the style of Corriepedia almost identically, but now following a brilliant re-design of the main page by XD1, we've hopefully set the wheels in motion for adapting our own style to the Wikia and expanding on what we already have. We've enabled a few new features that we either didn't have before or were buried away in the background and I thought I'd put together a quick blog to introduce everything to our followers...
Beginning with the main page, we now have two new main additions - the Polling Station and Live Chat. Both are experimenta…
TV Times
Obviously, this Wikia was originally based on the Corriepedia site as some crossover was expected between the two sites being as they're both broadcast within the same hour on the same network. As a result we're trying to incorporate a lot of what is on the Corriepedia into our site and then add to it as ideas develop.
The TV Times synopsises over on Corriepedia make an interesting read, but what are people's thoughts on a place for TV Times synopsises for our site? Would people be interested in them being added as and when they can? The same rule applies to Emmerdale synopsises with TV Times being the official for ITV network for so long, so they will have been the only TV listings magazine to cover Emmerdale from the very beginning too.
If…