rhaining23 9/11/2018 3:27:35
I've contributed an enormous amount of content to shiren.wikifoundry.com over the years (starting back when it was called Wet Paint). On the one hand, you can't really complain too much about something that's free, and I'm definitely grateful to whoever set up the Shiren wiki site. It may be costing someone some money to keep it up, or if not money, then definitely time and lots of it, and I definitely appreciate whatever time and money has been put into it.
But OTOH, it's just not stable enough. I've been locked out of logging in / editing for over a week now. I've tried reporting the problem in multiple ways, but have not received a response. I assume (hope?) the owners/admins are just overwhelmed and can't respond right now. (I hope that's true because some alternatives are worse, such as the site just plain being abandoned.) Over and above simply being able to log in now, I've experienced several periodic outages, it's not well supported on my main browser (Safari), and I've had to work around some problems (e.g. putting a period for every blank line).
I don't own or speak for the site, but I'm wondering what the real owners or other consumers would think of moving the content to a different wiki site. I have no idea which sites, if any, would be both well-supported yet perfectly free. gamepedia.com looks interesting as it's video-game specific, I like the content of other video game wikis there, and it appears to be free. (I'd love it if gamefaqs.com supported wikis directly! But I have no belief that will happen any time soon.)
Thoughts?
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