Joining
Join us in our mission to support independent wikis and their work!
We're always looking to welcome new members! Potential members need to meet the criteria listed below to be able to join. Once we've made sure your project fits, we invite our representatives to opine and come to a consensus on you joining.
Think you meet the criteria and want to join us? Drop by our server and submit an application in our #applications channel.
Criteria
For certain criteria, we are willing to accommodate and make exceptions and will evaluate this on a case-by-case basis. Please note that achieving all of these does not guarantee membership.
Wiki Subject
Your wiki's content must be centred around Roblox, whether it be through documenting a Roblox game, game franchise, development studio, etc.
The content that your wiki covers must be compliant with Roblox's Community Guidelines and be appropriate for young audiences, as well as all content on your wiki. If your wiki is on a wiki host such as Miraheze, it should follow all local guidelines. Your website should also follow all local laws of where the website is hosted in.
Activity
Your wiki should maintain an active wiki community and editor base proportional to the popularity of your wiki's subject game.
This includes keeping content up to date and monitoring for spam and vandalism. Wikis covering inactive subject games may not need to be edited as frequently to be considered active. In evaluating your website, the amount of active editors (Special:Statistics), recent edits (Special:RecentChanges) and total amount of members are all taken into account.
Independence
Your wiki should be independent, meaning that the power for decisions and control should rest mainly with the wiki's staff team and not any external groups (hosting providers, wiki farms, etc). This includes decisions related to wiki management, styling, and technical changes. Wikis hosted on Fandom are not permitted to join IRWA.
Status
Your wiki must either be officially recognised or endorsed by the developers, or the de-facto community resource.
If there is another wiki that is not from an official fork or migration, the wiki submitted should be of significantly higher quality as well as having one of the three listed attributes above. We do not include forked wikis when there is an official, endorsed one.
Content and Coverage
Your wiki must, at minimum, have at least 45 good quality articles with minimal stub or unfinished pages.
You may check Special:ShortPages for this statistic. Your wiki should have enough content to be useful to its intended audience and should cover most major topics.
Administration and Policy
Your wiki must have sufficient, clearly defined and easily accessible policies, and have sufficient staff to manage and execute such policies.
All of your wiki staff should also be in good standing with the wiki's community, Roblox, and the larger wiki community.
Style and Accessibility
We have no restrictions on style or theming. However, your wiki should be accessible visually and technically on all devices and screen readers, as well as having little-to-no glaring technical or visual errors. A good PageSpeed Insights score on accessibility is recommended.
Age
To ensure longevity of your wiki and its community, your wiki should be at least three months old. If the wiki was recently forked or migrated from another source, the age of that source may be counted towards the minimum age requirement.
Security
If you are self-hosting, your wiki should practice good security standards.
Examples of such include using the up to date stable or Long Term Support versions of the MediaWiki software, ensuring verified and or NDA restricted server access, and performing checks on all extensions prior to installation.
Licensing and Intellectual Property
Your wiki should be respectful of intellectual property, and consider fair use in its writing.
Your wiki should also ensure that licensing policies are followed, especially considering forked or migrated content. There are no restrictions to a certain license, though your wiki's content must also be licensed under a valid copyright license, such as a GPL license or the Creative Commons license.
Interested in joining?
Join our discord and get in contact! We'd love to have you on board!
