Forum:The Jax Pavan Experience

Okay, here's the thing. Making articles for the 582,797,754 Human males named Jax Pavan in an attempt to be the biggest wiki on Wikia is very funny, and very clever, and if it wasn't for the fact that it would kill the site, it would be awesome. Unfortunately, there's that whole site-killing thing, for two reasons:


 * 1: Servers cost money, and creating x0,000 identical pages costs Wikia money without actually providing value to the readers or Wikia as a whole. Obviously, the system is set up to accommodate people writing new content, but it's not set up for 50 extra Jax Pavans every minute.


 * 2: It would kill our Google pagerank. Google crawls the site in order to index it, so adding an extra x0,000 pages to the crawl means that the rest of the site doesn't get crawled as often. Google also penalizes sites that have "duplicate content" -- the same text on multiple pages. This is a whole bunch of duplicate content.

Now, if this only affected Darthipedia, then yeah, go for it. But since it affects all the other wikis on Wikia... we've gotta find another way.

I just talked to a bunch of people on IRC about the Jax Pavan project, and we came up with a different way to achieve the same goals. This is what we decided:


 * Darth-2-D2 has been deactivated. I can't say whether he will use his powers for good instead of evil from now on, but at least find a different kind of evil.


 * A bot will delete the duplicate Jax Pavan pages -- everything that's in the Human males named Jax Pavan category. All the customized JP pages are in Notable Human males named Jax Pavan; they can be moved back to the regular category once the duplicates have been deleted.


 * We'll create a random-number Jax Pavan page, so the "Random Jax Pavan" link in the toolbox will go to a page titled "Jax Pavan ".


 * We'll work on creating a special thing for the main page and the community box that adds 582,000,000 to the article total, so it looks like there are 582,000,000 Jax Pavan pages.


 * We'll create a special box on the Central Big wikis page that acknowledges Darthipedia's 582 million pages.

Now, I'm not technically-minded myself, so I need to consult with some of my tech-type colleagues on the bot, the random JP and the page count things. I don't know off the top of my head how long it'll take to do this stuff -- we might be able to do part of it tomorrow, and another part next week. Anyway -- I'll come back to the site tomorrow afternoon and let you know what I know.

So that's it for now... Tune in tomorrow for more Jax Pavan-related action. -- Danny (talk ) 00:18, 10 October 2008 (UTC)