Don't move any wikis you care about there.
Deleting wikis without a backup is, pardon my language, insane.
Every wiki will eventually have a month without activity. Allowing
archiving during some interim period is no substitute for being a more
reliable store of knowledge. Miraheze is a ticking memory hole... I have
helped set up wikis there that had periodic or seasonal activity and
disappeared without a trace.
🌍🌏🌎🌑
On Mon., Nov. 1, 2021, 8:51 p.m. Sam Wilson, <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> wrote:
Regarding the deletion of wikis: my understanding is
that they'll only be
actually deleted after 180 days of in activity, and wiki admins get lots of
warning (including options for someone else to adopt the wiki). Seems
reasonable to me, mainly because they also offer a cool service
<https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Backups> for downloading XML dumps and
tarballs of the images directory, so it's possible to keep your own
external backups.
I don't have any wikis on Miraheze, but have in the past helped on some.
My only involvement with them now is the occasional attempt to help review
extensions for installation.
A few years ago there was an idea to move the Wikimedia Australia wikis
there, but we never did in the end.
On 2/11/21 8:36 am, rtnF wrote:
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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