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australianfootballleague.wikia.com is yet another tiny Wikia wiki dedicated to the AFL. This one has three real articles. Like two of the other AFL wikis on Wikia, it has an article about a team. The team for this wiki, the Geelong Cats, is one not found on the other wikis looked at. It has only eight real edits of which five were made by one individual and the rest were bot created.
Having looked at three small wikis so far, it looks like individuals make small wikis because they are fans of a specific team and then later lose interest and mostly abandon them.
aflpedia.wikia.com is another small Wikia wiki dedicated to the AFL. It is slightly bigger than afl.wikia.com with 6 real articles and 18 edits. It was founded in May 2009, later than afl.wikia.com. There are three articles about specific teams: The Collingwood Magpies, the Melbourne Demons and the Hawthorn Hawks. The article about the Collingwood Magpies is the most edited article on the wiki with eight edits made by two people. The edit to the Melbourne Demons article contains only one link, to a Melbourne Demon wiki.
This wiki should probably be merged with afl.wikia.com, or another Wikia related AFL.
afl.wikia.com is a tiny, two page wiki hosted on Wikia. One page is the main page for the wiki. The other page is an article dedicated to the Adelaide Crows. A total of 6 edits have been made to this wiki, with half coming from bots or Wikia staff. There really isn’t much more that can be said about this wiki other than it exists, it is dedicated to the AFL and has never developed a community. There is a footy wiki on Wikia. That wiki is probably where most editors for the AFL on Wikia can be found.
nrl.wikia.com is a small wiki dedicated to the National Rugby League and the State of Origin. It is not a very active wiki and doesn’t even have an article about every team in the NRL. It has a total of 20 articles with about three redirects and has been around since September 2008. In that period, there have been a total of roughly 112 edits made by 17 contributors. Of these, five have made more than 10 edits. They are:
Rey76 19
JWykes 18
Emosworld 17
209.66.200.45 15
KapitanYnot 12
Only two articles had more than ten edits. These articles include Sydney Roosters with 16 edits and Canterbury Bulldogs with 15 edits. The wiki has gone through several “active” periods that can be seen on the chart below.
If there is an active NRL wiki community, it probably isn’t here. Most likely, it would be found on Wikipedia or a wiki created by fans on their own domain.
