User blog:Bdj610/What is WAM...and This Wikia's Place Site-Wide

To the Esteemed Members of this Wikia:

Wikia's Community Center has a section called "Wikia Activity Monitor," or WAM.

What is WAM? According to the WAM FAQ:

"The WAM rank is a combination of traffic, engagement and growth. We are not able to provide the specifics because we do not want Wikis attempting to manipulate the rankings. But rest assured, we have included all the essential ingredients for a successful and thriving Wiki."

What does this mean for this site?

We want more fans to come to this site, to engage with the community here, and help this site grow by positively contributing to the site's articles, blog posts, comments, etc. We want this site to be about as close to a go-to site for information about the games.

So where are we within the ranks of Wikia?



According to Wikia's WAM, we are currently in 278th place with a WAM score of 92.90 and rising. (For the record, Flipline Studios Wikia ranks between the Trove Wikia and the Polish Language My Little Pony-Friendship is Magic site). The highest rank this site reached was 74. In the Games category, which this site is categorized, we are presently in 141st place.

Overall, that's pretty good. In fact, going back as far as the day that Shaira and I were named admins, this site has jumped 58 places to where we are as of right now.

Now, this score changes daily, but it looks like our stock is rising. While I am going to say that we may never get back to 74th place overall, the fact that we're within the top 300 overall sites, and top 150 game sites is fantastic. And we should all be proud of ourselves and what we've accomplished over the past two years.

If you want to know more about WAM, or even see where other wikis that you contribute to rank overall, here is the site: http://www.wikia.com/WAM.

For the record, the top 10 Wikia sites overall by WAM are:
 * 1) Runescape
 * 2) Warframe
 * 3) Disney
 * 4) Star Wars
 * 5) Fallout
 * 6) Marvel
 * 7) Yugioh
 * 8) Terraria (Russia)
 * 9) Undertale
 * 10) Asian Drama (Spanish)