Forum:Miraheze is shutting down
Forum: Miraheze is shutting down
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Hello, it looks like Miraheze is shutting down by september (source). Nonciclopedia is there, and a bunch of other uncyclopedias too. I'm quite out of the loop, is it still feasible to transfer big wikis here? WEDHRO
what? 03:27, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- Impossible, this server is not even handling the current uncyclopedias. We from Desciclopédia are suffering with daily bugs and glitches since April, and never receiving a word of support in 3 months. This place is abandoned. ABDUL ALHAZRED Salah, Zakāh, Ramadan, Hajj 04:06, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- By "a bunch of other uncyclopedias" I presume you mean only two of any importance - Arabic (Beidipedia) and Simplified Chinese? Carlb (talk) 05:33, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- I assumed there were more but I searched and I couldn't find more. Basically we're the only major uncyclopedia which is still not here.
WEDHRO
what? 05:52, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- As far as I know, the Simplified Chinese one locked itself into private mode due to internal conflicts, and there even was a user calling me for disqualifying the Simplified Chinese one from being recognized by UnMeta. What do you guys think about this issue?--Abcabc2 (talk) 07:10, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- Well, it looks like this problem is going to be tricky. 78Meow (Talk) 07:46, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what the issue above is, exactly. Anyways, we're not going to kill Nonciclopedia, and nobody wants to make it unavailable in any other form, as long as there's a place where to move. If we can't find a place by September we risk losing everything, but nobody wants that.
WEDHRO
what? 07:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- I understand your position perfectly. There are two choices either UnMeta or where the Spanish and French versions went. I suggest you look for an administrator.
- I leave the decision in your hands. I don't want to influence your choice as it should be discussed by the community. You may already be aware that here we are experiencing a change in the mediawiki version that made the entire UnMeta unstable. As an administrator here, it is up to me to give this advice, seeing that we are in mid-June and if the move here is agreed upon, all wikis will have to deal with the inconvenience of moving their sites.
- On the other hand, we are already in the middle of June and September is a very short time. This conversation must be discussed and I am offering the options that you can give in response. Not the best answers but I know the need of the community.
Rhubella Marie, the rat sockpreppie 3,585 preppiedits
18:42, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- As far as I know, the Simplified Chinese one locked itself into private mode due to internal conflicts, and there even was a user calling me for disqualifying the Simplified Chinese one from being recognized by UnMeta. What do you guys think about this issue?--Abcabc2 (talk) 07:10, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- I assumed there were more but I searched and I couldn't find more. Basically we're the only major uncyclopedia which is still not here.
- By "a bunch of other uncyclopedias" I presume you mean only two of any importance - Arabic (Beidipedia) and Simplified Chinese? Carlb (talk) 05:33, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_is_Not_Shutting_Down
- In any case, I'm not sure why you're claiming to be "the only major uncyclopedia which is not here". Of the active projects:
- English (spoon) is independent on uncyclopedia.com
- English-US (fork) has its own server on en.uncyclopedia.co - which is also hosting Spanish, French, Hebrew and German as well as en.illogicopedia
- Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thai are here (uncyclopedia.info), along with the Scandinavian countries. Dutch looks to be read-only and Turkish looks not to be accepting new users.
- Polish (nonsa.pl) is independent. I do own the "nonsensopedia.org" domain, but that domain is merely a redirect.
- Russian (fork - absurdopedia.net) and Olbanian (Russian spoon - absurdopedia.wiki) are each separate and independent.
- Danish did try to go independent (spademanns.dk) but looks to be overgrown with spam; there's also a spademanns.org here which is little-used.
- Arabic (inactive) and Simplified Chinese (no longer publicly readable) are the only others on Miraheze.
- No uncyclopedias (that I know of) are on Wikia/FANDOOM or any other advertising-funded host. Spademann's (Danish) did survive Wikia's 2019 "all the news that doesn't offend the advertiser, we print" witch hunt, but has since been removed from that site.
- In some cases, "whois" does show me as owning a domain but the domains actually point elsewhere - French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic for instance. If you do move, it might be a good idea to see if your new host lets you use your own domain, so that you remain nonciclopedia.org and not nonciclopedia.somewikifarm.org - leaving your position in the search engines intact. Carlb (talk) 19:08, 18 June 2023 (UTC)