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 Why Wikia Matters

This summer marks the fourth year I’ve been working on Teen Wolf Wikia. I set out just to fix a couple of spelling errors on the site but quickly saw the importance and value of having at least one place on the vast interwebs that presented “just the facts” about the show.

This was back when there was no indication MTV’s Teen Wolf would last beyond its second season and I had no idea just how much work would go into cataloguing and then maintaining an encyclopedia about the show.

I bring this up now mainly because we recently had another attempted coup d'etat where a couple of users, chaffing under the restrictions placed on the site’s forum section, wanted to oust the admin. It was a minor flare-up, nothing compared to the Great Revolt of Season 3B, but I figured this would be a good time to address the role that Wikia plays, not just in the Teen Wolf universe but generally, throughout pop culture now.

You’ve probably heard of Wookiepedia. This marks the 10 year anniversary of the creation of the Star Wars Wikia. It is a vast site with more than 120 thousand articles (translated into 25 languages), 68 thousand images and 3.1 million unique visitors monthly.

While not the most visited Wikia site in the company, it is the most well-known and has become a reliable canon resource for creators within the Lucas and Disney organizations.

In 2009 the paid canon-keeper within the LucasFilms family, Leland Chee, admitted that game developers use Wookieepedia to check the canon behind their work. Star Wars Episode VIII Writer/Director Rian Johnson says he uses the Star Wars Wikia as well.

Simon Pegg, writer of the new Star Trek film, is also a fan of Wikia telling the New York Daily News, “I've got to say the Star Trek Wikipedia, Memory Alpha, which is online, has been so helpful. If you need to know what's inside of a photon torpedo, there it is online, because there are so many dedicated fans out there who have such a vast knowledge of the universe and the minutia of it."

We recently heard the same thing from Archer creator Adam Reed and producer Casey Willis, “I often go to your website (Archer Wiki) to see what’s happened on Archer because sometimes I forget,” says Reed. “We double check with you guys to make sure.”

In addition to writers and other creators, sites within Wikia are quoted and used for research in hundreds of news sources each month.

Good Wikia sites are trusted sources and that is the goal of Teen Wolf Wikia too. We will continue to be the most factual and reliable Teen Wolf site so that fans and creators can confidently use us as a resource.

 Posey and Pop Push Their Play

Check out this fun interview with Tyler and John Posey about his ongoing live theater show Father, Son and Holy Coach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmsCNyd5eYk

<p class="MsoNormal">There’s also a new “holy coach” website where you see more images from the show and buy tickets. <h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#FF6600; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Dylan Wraps Deepwater Horizon Movie

<p class="MsoNormal">Pictures surfaced Monday of Dylan O’Brien and several of his Deepwater Horizon co-stars at a wrap party in New Orleans suggesting the Teen Wolf star is now finished with principal photography on the film. <p class="MsoNormal">Dylan plays Caleb Holloway who was one of 11 survivors of the fire and explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform back in 2010.

<p class="MsoNormal">Dylan began work on the movie in the spring. It will be released next year.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#FF6600; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> F@(K the Ratings

<p class="MsoNormal">MTV did something kinda radical in July. The network renewed a show that the widely-reported overnight Nielsen ratings showed was a certified flop.

<p class="MsoNormal">SCREAM struggled to attract even a million viewers in its regular Tuesday 10PM timeslot but it turns out those live viewing numbers are just a very small tip of a very long spear.

<p class="MsoNormal">According to MTV, viewership in the first 3 days after an episode is broadcast rises 60%. The network says the show’s first four episodes were watched by 21 million people and resulted in 7.9 million digital streams. Those numbers spell “hit show” and based on that audience interest the network decided to renew the show for Season 2.

<p class="MsoNormal">At this point, as far as MTV is concerned, it seems the “same day” ratings numbers the public sees are meaningless.

<p class="MsoNormal">This will come as no surprise to regular readers of Teen Wolf News. We’ve been charting the decline of live viewing numbers and the rise of the non-traditional digital viewer for almost two years.

<p class="MsoNormal">So far in Season 5, Teen Wolf has shed about 20% of its live viewers. This drop comes after the 18% drop in live viewing for Season 4. In the antiquated system of television programming, ratings drops like that would spell cancellation. In the evolving system of digital streaming and multi-screen viewing, Teen Wolf attracts about 8 million viewers per episode and will be back for Season 6.

<p class="MsoNormal">MTV isn’t the only network seeing the decline in live viewers.

<p class="MsoNormal">CW

<p class="MsoNormal">Vampire Diaries (CW) – 30.9% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Arrow (CW) – 5.5% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Supernatural (CW) – 7.6% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">The Originals (CW) – 33.7% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">The 100 (CW) – 7% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">ABC Family

<p class="MsoNormal">Pretty Little Liars (ABCFAM) – 7% decline in live viewing this season/20% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Switched at Birth (ABCFAM) – 17.2% decline in live viewing this season/17.6% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">The Fosters (ABCFAM) – 14.19% decline in live viewing this season/17.1% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">SYFY

<p class="MsoNormal">Bitten (SYFY) – 40% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Lost Girl (SYFY) – 19.3% decline in live viewing this season/20.6% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Haven (SYFY) – 41.3% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">Various

<p class="MsoNormal">Orphan Black (BBC) – 20% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">The Last Ship (TNT) – 33.7% decline in live viewing this season

<p class="MsoNormal">Suits (USA) – 2.6% decline in live viewing this season/17% decline in live viewing last season

<p class="MsoNormal">The Strain (FX) – 28% decline in live viewing this season

<p class="MsoNormal">Part of the reason for the decline is a change in how audiences watch “TV” now. Very few shows, other than live sporting events, can draw sizable live audiences anymore. According to a research report from Miner & Co. Studio, this decline in live-viewing ratings will likely worsen over the next decade.

<p class="MsoNormal">Miner found that televisions are no longer where most kids with access to tablets and smartphones get their content. More than half (57%) of the 800 parents surveyed said their children (between the ages of 2 and 12) now prefer to watch video on a handheld device rather than on TV. While the study is small, it seems to reflect what’s already happening to channels like Nickelodeon. Live viewing of the kid’s TV powerhouse is down 30% in the demographic covered by the survey.

<p class="MsoNormal">While MTV now seems more willing to bank on the digital viewer, advertisers have yet to fully make that transition. Ad revenue for VIACOM (the company that owns MTV) is down about 8% in the latest quarter.

<p class="MsoNormal">The reality of ad-funded television means there must be a tipping point. They can't keep producing shows unless they make money. Currently, on their own, low-value digital platforms don't produce the kind of revenue necessary to maintain high-quality programming. At some point, cancellation just makes good business sense. <p class="MsoNormal">So far though, with Teen Wolf and SCREAM at least, it appears we’ve yet to hit that point.