Affiliation procedure

A few months ago, a little group of administrators of wikis about some classic Konami franchises came up with the idea of joining together and bring back interest in them by helping each other. The Konami Classics group merely has the purpose of allowing communication between all these wikis and their communities, with the intention of linking between each other as much as possible, and thus make it easier to their users to find the information they are looking for.

With our mutual collaboration, we could help improve each other's wikis, either it is by exchanging information, sharing news, translating foreign documentations, raise awareness of upcoming events, implementing/teaching coding, etc.

History

In the beginning, what is today known as the Konami Classics group was merely a Discord server for the Castlevania Wiki. However, seeing that many wikis about classic Konami franchises in the FANDOM™ network were either unattended, in very bad state or completely abandoned, the idea came up to change the Castlevania Wiki's server into "Konami Classics", a place where people could talk about all these old franchises that the very company that created them lately seem to have neglected. People voted and agreed with the change and thus the "Konami Classics" server was born, where one can find dedicated channels to talk about any Konami franchises that may come to mind.

All that remained was trying to contact the administrators of those wikis and extend them an invitation to join the group, with the premise that if we all helped each other, we could bring back interest in all these once-loved franchises and prevent them from being forgotten. In those cases when the wiki was abandoned and they didn't have any active administrators, we gave ourselves the task of adopting them and give them new life.

Even if by principle only classic franchises were to be accepted in the beginning, as time has passed by we have realized that even contemporary franchises may be included (they are all going to become "classic" one day, after all).

How to become an affiliate?

The process to become an affiliate to the Konami Classics group is very simple: If you own a wiki about any classic franchise from Konami, either we will try to reach you by leaving an invitation post on your message wall (or on any other active bureaucrat's/administrator's wall), or you can ask to become an affiliate yourself by leaving a post on any of our administrators' message walls, no matter who or on what wiki.

You can also join the Konami Classics Discord server and ask any of us to help/guide you in the process.

Benefits

The main benefit you will gain is the promotion of your Konami wiki. By adding links to each other's wikis on our homepages and adding links within articles to each other's wikis whenever possible, we expect that all of us will get benefited with more traffic, which potentially could traduce in new people contributing to the sites (and potentially in finding new suitable staff candidates you could hire on your wiki) and more widespread promotion among different social media services.

Any affiliate will also be granted a dedicated channel for that franchise on the Konami Classics Discord server (if it doesn't exist already), in addition to any help we could provide to improve their site.

What do I have to do once I become an affiliate?

Just a couple of things:

1. Add an "Affiliates" section to your wiki's homepage that lists all other wikis that are already part of the Konami Classics group. Likewise, all the other affiliate wikis will also add a link to yours on their own homepages' "Affiliates" sections.
   • The design of the "Affiliates" section is up to you. You can check the Castlevania Wiki's, Suikoden Wiki's or Silent Hill's main pages for examples and/or to get some ideas.
2. Add the Discord Widget to your wiki (for instructions on how to do this, please follow this link). This step is optional, however, as it could get in the way on the design of your wiki, although it's highly advisable to do it in order to have easier communication between each other, as well as providing users from your site an easy way to find the server and meet people that may have similar interests.
   • If you already have the Discord Widget on your wiki linking to a dedicated server, then feel free to keep it. Many Konami franchises are still very popular to this day and they already have a well established fanbase. If the franchise you represent is relevant enough, then it makes sense that it has its own server.
     • Even if this is the case, please make sure to contact us in our server, as all administrators from all wikis are also offered/encouraged to join yet another server reserved for staff members only, where we can privately discuss any matters regarding to our wikis' development.

Current affiliates

Wiki	Date of affiliation	Active staff
	January 22, 2019	Bureaucrats: Bermuda, Legato32x, Throast Administrators: SaucieSpecs
	February 24, 2018	Bureaucrats: Chernabogue, LaVey Administrators: DanteVin, Dovahbrine38, Estebant, InfernoCross, Nagumo baby
	December 4, 2017	Bureaucrats: LaVey Administrators: DigitalFighter
	December 18, 2018	Bureaucrats: BlazeSeed366 Administrators: (none)
	January 5, 2018	Bureaucrats: LaVey Administrators: (none)
	January 16, 2018	Bureaucrats: Magma MK-II Administrators: (none)
	December 16, 2018	Bureaucrats: Bluerock Administrators: (none)
	August 6, 2018	Bureaucrats: Digipony, KokoaMinto Administrators: Magma MK-II
	November 15, 2018	Bureaucrats: AlessaGillespie, Canieattacos, Enjoyableari, Hazardsfury Administrators: Ozzkat, Riley Heligo
	November 29, 2018	Bureaucrats: Hotspot, Milkandchocolate Administrators: Yukoyusika
	April 23, 2018	Bureaucrats: LaVey Administrators: (none)