User:Lyrithya/To move the wiki
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Never mind the rantative aspects of WIKIA SUCKS ETC, perhaps look at this practically... what would we need to have if we were to move?
- Community consensus
- Most folks are content to complain a little but largely ignore what Wikia does, especially since most of it does not, in fact, affect us, at least not after someone's cleaned up the spill over.
- Staying with Wikia has definite boons:
- Reliable servers
- Quick support
- Act as legal intermediary
- Largely turn a blind eye to the more questionable things that go on here
- Problems with staying on Wikia:
- Declining technical support: Wikia is going in a social-networking direction, and Uncyclopedia uses the same software as the rest of it
- Other things
- Staying with Wikia has definite boons:
- People just don't see it happening.
- Domains
- A few floating around
- Wikia has expressed a distinct disinterest in selling back the uncyclopedia.org domain
- Carlb holds keys to most of the others: uncyc.org, uncyc.com, uncyclopedia.info, others; would probably at least redirect the appropriate things if asked
- Other users hold a few others: uncyc.net, uncyclopedia.biz
- Some random guy holds uncyclopedia.com for unrelated purposes; doesn't use it
- Domain registration cost is fairly small if name is unclaimed; negotiating trade of registered domain names can be much more
- Hosting
- Need dedicated server, and to be able to handle backups, etc. Would have to have someone set up the software and also people to maintain it in the long run...
- Possible ways about this:
- Get someone with a server to host for us
- Rent out a generic server and build and maintain it ourselves
- Find another company like Wikia to take care of the details
- Costs: servers are expensive in general; cost of maintining wiki as well might be added
- Funding
- Presently have no real funds; probably the main thing standing in the way.
- Could generate revenue post-move through advertising
- May be possible to do actual fundraising, solicit visitors to donate through use of coordinated campaigns
- Sponsors?
