Hello fellow DragonVale Wiki active staff members.
The DragonVale Community would like to become officially affiliated with the wiki.
ElektronX wrote:
Hello, DragonVale Wiki! The DragonVale Community, and I would like to create an official affiliation between the two sites. We have addressed each point for your Affiliation Policy following our initial Affiliation Request.
The website/Wiki you represent
Greetings from the DragonVale Community (http://dragonvale-tips.proboards.com/ or dragonvalecommunity.com/
Any necessary contact information where messages can be left
You can deliver the verdict to myself (ElektronX), Bane Cane, or Adriano, who are members of both our communities.
A short description describing the site
We are a very large, friendly, diverse, dispersed, and active forum community who do nothing but discuss all things DragonVale. Our discussion is fuelled by a wide interest in DragonVale, and spiced with overwhelming goodwill, witty humour, profound grace and compassion and relentless taunting. We are an independent forum in no way affiliated with BFS, though BFS have an account on our forum and do communicate with us with occasional regularity. Our forum was created by and is managed by DragonVale fanatics.
The reasons the site wants to be affiliated with DragonVale Wiki
Our two communities already collaborate with some regularity. Therefore, consider this application to make official what we both already practice: mutual awesomeness toward the other.
Ensure you meet DragonVale Wiki's affiliation guidelines
1. The site should be informational to the topic and so both sites could benefit from each other.
We comply.
2. It should be a mutually symbiotic relationship between both the sites rather than one site becoming the "advertising media" for another.
We already comply.
3. The affiliated site should be deemed as well developed with the content on the site instead of only having a connection with the content to the DragonVale Wiki.
We develop our own content and discussion. We refer our readership to the wiki, we do not leverage from the wiki without permission.
4. The site should be informational and allow the option to possibly help the wiki when needed.
We already help the wiki.
5. The site should have a similar target audience, hold the same standards as the DragonVale Wiki.
We address the same target audience. Just like the wiki, our audience must affirm that they are at least 13 years old and adhere to COPPA.
6. The site should/could have an open and active communication with DragonVale Wiki.
We already do, and we have recently made efforts to improve communications.
7. The site needs to have these five traits (The 5 R's); Reliable, Responsible, Refined, Recognized, and Resourceful.
We comply.
8. The site must be active. The site must either be updated frequently (ie, at least once a week) or must have an active forum community.
We are an active forum community with over 2200 registered members. We drive a website which is updated with each dragon release or application update.
9. The site should not contain messages to ask users to download a file from the internet.
We comply.
10. The site should not allow discussion and pictures of spoilers of content not released yet or hacked content.
Our policies on this point are different, and we think that's OK. We (the staff) do not encourage, promote, or advertise hacking or code mining. As a whole, our community frowns on all these things, and as such, such discussion is very minimal. But we (the staff) do not actively censor anything on the forum unless it is a direct or personal attack.
We, the staff, also mine the code to prepare for upcoming events. We don't share our knowledge with our general membership, but keep it private to the staff. As you must know, keeping up with DragonVale takes a lot of time and work. Preparing in advance by mining the code is one of the things we do to stay relevant and current in the midst of change in the game.
We understand that it is harder to keep things secret on your wiki. But by the nature of the way forums operate, we can offer your staff a place to share in our code mining so that you too can share in our preparedness. Please feel free to ask Bane Cane or Adriano for more information about this, if you would like more.
11. The site must be appropriate for all languages and it is preferred that language is kept at a "PG" rating, but "PG-13" language may be considered if not used frequently
We comply.