User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20121207092215/@comment-1398253-20121212024206

CzechOut wrote:

GusF wrote: [Tardis Index File is] very well established at this stage.

This is what we look like on Wikia's front page — nary an index or file in sight.

With whom? It's certainly not established very strongly in the minds of other Wikians. Go to w:c:community and you'll never hear "index file" there: it's always just "tardis".

Worse, Wikia Staff never call it that. So when we get a spotlight or other promotion within the Wikia network, we're always, always, always referred to as "Tardis". Look at the picture at right. The name given in the lower left-hand corner is not changeable by local admin. Staff thinks of us as "Tardis", so that's how we're portrayed in any Wikia-wide advertising. Other Wikians — that is, the ones who don't regularly contribute here — doubtlessly remember "Tardis" as our name, because we're one of the only wikis who can make links without the w:c: bit. If you want to link to iCarly, you have to type w:c:iCarly:iCarly. If you want to link to TARDIS, you only have to type tardis:TARDIS. That distinction is something that admin and active users right the way across Wikia notice and remember.

This proposal is thus merely bowing the reality of the power of our elegant, five-letter URL. It is not an attempt to practically change the name.

I'm an admin on one of the other wikis with that same privilege - The Morphin Grid, which has the primary domain of powerrangers.wikia.com, and can be accessed by typing powerrangers:. Just as tardis is a redirect of doctorwho, supersentai is a redirect for powerrangers (although the supersentai one does require the w:c:, as we adopted the domain later after the wiki originally in that namespace was abandoned). The name was originally Power Ranger Universe, but there was another website called that and we also cover the Japanese version, Super Sentai, so I had it changed to The Morphin Grid upon my promotion to admin. It's named after something mentioned in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Since this wiki also covers other shows (spin-offs), a generic franchise term like Tardis is definitely better than the bland Doctor Who Wiki. You're right though that Tardis Information System is rather too long for the wordmark - Tardis Index File looks squashed as it is. If you go with that name, the background thing is definitely the way to go.

Oh, and CzechOut, is that Tardis Information System screen using Ceefax tech? lol