Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-32354545-20180103192929

I have considered how helpful it would be to have a yourwiki.wikia.com. That is, a place you could redirect new users to specific locations at arbitrary URLs.

We all know that new folks don't ever provide the names of their wikis when they ask for help... So when they ask "how do I enable chat on my wiki?" we should be able to direct them to http://yourwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Wikifeatures, at which point they would be asked for the URL of their wiki and redirected to the equivalent page upon providing it. This would be even more helpful for writing blog posts and other guides more generic than can be applied to a single user's wiki. (It would also help Templates Wiki, which I am working on, very significantly.)

Unfortunately, yourwiki.wikia.com exists only as a redirect to Central, and Staff is not likely to make it happen any time soon. Yet I can't quell the notion that a little bit of Javascript could accomplish the same thing, though necessarily at a different URL, first. Once a proof of concept exists, we could petition Staff to make that easy substitution, and begin to make use of it. 