Back then, i proposed a new wiki sister project to the WMID staff. They
suggested me to build it on miraheze instead. As for now, i'm currently
managing two wikis there. Here's what i learned so far :
1.You have to submit a proposal to create a new wiki. Not all proposal is
accepted.
2. Even though we dont have access to the server and the source code, the
wiki customization is really good. Set up our own domain, add some
mediawiki extensions, and (if needed) we can contact the developers via
phabricator.
3. No edit activity for the last 1 month -> declared as "dormant wiki" ->
possible deletion.
4. The server infrastructure is (sometimes) not quite comparable to WMF's
infrastructure. Expect some lags and downtimes. (They're still working hard
to fix this issue right now)
5. The community on
meta.miraheze.org is quite active.
6. Powered solely by donations. Surprisingly they're so transparent
regarding their financial information.
https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Finance
Closing statement : No ads, better than wikia. Some large scale
organization are already using miraheze as their private wiki. It's easier
to just use miraheze and pay the donation instead of running and managing
their own wiki servers (it's technically a cloud-based "wiki as a service")
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 4:22 AM Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
I am interested in what is the overall momentum of the
ecosystem
compared to Wikimedia and dynamics of the community there compared to
EN Wikipedia or Wikidata?
I wanna both start recommending it (love the idea or smaller and
bolder version of Wikimedia) and use it (more licences and content
flexibility)...
Should I be cautious or alert of any specific differences? (aside from
obvious absence of WMF and presence of more 'trivial' fandom content
:-p )
Best Z. Blace
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