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See my talk. Here's a quick(-ish) idea of what I think should be in it; give ideas and such.

"The Pikmin series follows Captain Olimar's encounters with aliens called Pikmin over two games. Pikipedia (*), founded by Dark Lord Revan as a Wikia wiki in December 2005, aims to be the foremost source of Pikmin information. In September 2010, Pikipedia moved away from Wikia to become independent. With the release of a third Pikmin title imminent, there's no better place to be."

* The other ones have an abbreviation here. Discussion I had on it:

[19:25:19] <Jimbo_Jambo> Do we need one?
[19:25:32] <Greenpickle> Iunno, just noticed the others had one
[19:25:36] <Jimbo_Jambo> Mm
[19:25:39] <Greenpickle> there must be some reason
[19:25:49] <-> Miles_ is now known as The_Wiki_Confederacy
[19:25:57] <Jimbo_Jambo> Ease of use?
[19:26:01] <Jimbo_Jambo> God dammit Miles
[19:26:11] <Jimbo_Jambo> Stop making fun of my overactive imagination
[19:26:28] <Jimbo_Jambo> Unfortunately our name is all one work
[19:26:49] <Jimbo_Jambo> We don't have the luxury of being able to abbreviate "Pikmin Wiki" as PW or something like that
[19:27:20] <Jimbo_Jambo> But then again Bulbapedia did it
[19:27:38] <Jimbo_Jambo> Following their example it would seem like PP would be most appropriate
[19:27:49] <Jimbo_Jambo> But I dunno, it just doesn't sound...us
[19:27:56] <Greenpickle> ...Miles
[19:28:11] <Greenpickle> ease of use of what?
[19:28:18] <Greenpickle> ...is 'P' fine?
[19:28:29] <Jimbo_Jambo> Instead of typing out "Zelda Wiki" or whatever every time
[19:28:31] <Jimbo_Jambo> P
[19:28:32] <Jimbo_Jambo> Haha
[19:28:34] <Greenpickle> I just saw the one-word Bulbapedia used 2 symbols too
[19:28:42] <Jimbo_Jambo> Yeah
[19:28:54] <Jimbo_Jambo> As I said
[19:28:56] <Greenpickle> oh, qust read you said that
[19:28:59] <Greenpickle> *just
[19:29:02] <Greenpickle> hadn't got there
[19:29:03] <Jimbo_Jambo> Right
[19:29:15] <Jimbo_Jambo> We've never really used one though
[19:29:19] <Jimbo_Jambo> Not that I recall
[19:29:36] <Jimbo_Jambo> We could call it PIK
[19:29:36] <Greenpickle> I would say Pk, lower-case k, is closer to the word
[19:29:41] <Jimbo_Jambo> Mm
[19:29:56] <Greenpickle> but yes, P is, above all, different.
[19:30:10] <Jimbo_Jambo> Who's gonna use that though?
[19:30:15] <Greenpickle> heheh
[19:30:20] <Jimbo_Jambo> "Yeah, I read on P that Pikmin 3 is coming out"
[19:30:35] <Jimbo_Jambo> "I'm an active contributor on P"
[19:30:44] <Greenpickle> oh yes
[19:30:47] <Greenpickle> perfect
[19:31:49] <Jimbo_Jambo> "Pkmn", not to be confused with the abbreviation for Pokemon
[19:33:05] <Greenpickle> well, people say 'wiki'
[19:33:09] <Greenpickle> so...'piki'?
[19:33:10] <Greenpickle> ...
[19:33:32] <Jimbo_Jambo> Heh
[19:34:15] <Jimbo_Jambo> I think we should first check whether or not an abbreviation is actually necessary
[19:34:27] <Jimbo_Jambo> Unless you just really want to have one
[19:35:21] <Greenpickle> yeah
[19:35:38] <Greenpickle> I'll ask the guy

I have indeed asked the guy. Also, could the last sentence could do with some sort of extension? GP

And the response:

"I suppose you could decide on it yourselves, but when we use interwiki links. Like say a pikmin cameo is in Kirby's Epic Yarn, instead of linking to Wikipedia for our readers to get more info on Pikmin, I'd use {{PKW|Olimar}} and that would go to the Olimar article you have. It's not entirely consistent."

I suggest 'PK', then; anyone else agree/disagree? GP