An important question on a community is of course how to work together with other communities, in particular if they cover the same topic. Indeed there is already a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Zoids) and a Discord server (https://discord.gg/gXhuRPf) for Zoids. There are two possibilities, either making a duplicate community or trying to collaborate and merge both communities in a way or at least affiliate with each other. The most important advantage of making a duplicate community indeed is having more control. An important disadvantage is of course that there is a fragmentation of the wider community. Meanwhile, the most important advantage of working together is that a larger fanbase can be reached. A disadvantage might be that you have to arrange yourself with other users in power and have to make sacrifices. Another disadvantage could be that one community looks down towards the other one and even bans powerholders and/or other members of the other community, because the former simply doesn't want to collaborate with them and accept them as equals. I have seen a lot of cases of collaboration between communities. More than three years ago Beyblade Wiki became a part of the World Beyblade Organization and Bakugan Wiki and the Bakugan Subreddit are at least affiliated. In our case I would of course prefer working together with the Zoids Subreddit and Discord if collaboration is viable. What are your thoughts about that. Moviejunkie2009 (talk) 00:47, March 4, 2019 (UTC)
- Well, Sylvanelite posts on the Zoids reddit and should have some useful input, but I wouldn't be surprised if those users do have accounts on this wiki and are open to collaborating. It will be difficult and sacrifices might have to be made, but if the sacrifices are acceptable then we should go for it. If they have an account and a good reputation on the wiki then we could justify user rights being given. Likewise, we may already have some users here who use the Zoids Discord. I think we should give it a shot and if it doesn't work out then just create a duplicate community as a last resort. We should wait for Sylvanelite to weigh in first though. Zane T 69 (talk) 01:09, March 4, 2019 (UTC)