Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1743498-20160225061956/@comment-1743498-20160309003111

I spent some time thinking about the structure of the settings, and I came up with a few things:

The separate wikis idea seems to be more cosmetic and navigational than anything else considering that they all share the same structure, rules, guides, etc. And given that we're already planning crossovers between settings, the lines between wikis are already becoming quite blurry.

Because the appearance is just cosmetic, if we could find a way to have some kind of dynamic background/skin that changes depending on what setting an article takes place in (specifically, it would change depending on what category the article is assigned to), we could achieve the same effect as having multiple wikis. The reason why I'm considering this is because adding new subdomains can be very inefficient since you have to install MediaWiki all over again when you do so, and in the future when we possibly get an influx of writers, it will be easier to create new settings or even allow articles that aren't part of any setting such as the stand-alone stories seen in Creativity Unleashed. I can't really find any working examples of this idea so it looks like something we'll have to create specifically for the wiki.