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This is a bummer. Miraheze is/was a wiki farm that provided a free Mediawiki-based wiki to pretty much anyone who was able to articulate a reason and fill out
by cxr 3y ago
This is a bummer.
Miraheze is/was a wiki farm that provided a free Mediawiki-based wiki to pretty much anyone who was able to articulate a reason and fill out a request to be given one. This was invaluable in an age where the term "wiki" has become so debased that "a bunch of Markdown files in a GitHub repo" is, against all good taste and reason, considered a wiki. Miraheze was supported by donations, which is almost certainly why it's shutting down. There's no reason I can see that it shouldn't have allowed you to set up an annual bill-me cycle, but it didn't. And now it's going away, unfortunately. It would've be a good candidate for a pay-what-you-want model that incorporated usage-based pricing.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoThanks for explaining. This announcement joins a long list of shutdown announcements where I find out a thing exists by its shutdown announcement, which neglects to explain why I should care about it.
- sundarurfriend 3y agoAnother comment mentions that a lot of the volunteers on this projects have moved on to a similar project called WikiTide, and that's the "recent events" mentioned in the article. https://meta.wikitide.com/wiki/WikiTide https://meta.wikitide.com/wiki/WikiTide does seem like they offer a similar thing (though, of course, Lindy's law applies regarding its reliability/viability).
- OrigAuthority 3y agoThe thing with that is that is is the same people that ran Miraheze that have forked, so the thinking behind it will be the same, and it largely has been — they've copied verbatim all of Miraheze's policies and stuff, so I doubt the systemic problemls experienced will be different. You can also check out https://meta.telepedia.net/wiki/Telepedia_Meta_Wiki https://meta.telepedia.net/wiki/Telepedia_Meta_Wiki if your wiki is about entertainment.