Template talk:Wiki status: Difference between revisions

==Edit history==

: um, wow, nice work!!  ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

::Thank-you :)  Are there any other languages which need to be added, or any other amendments? --[[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] 03:37, 3 January 2012 (PST)

==Dead vs Inactive==

Dead, maybe the action for dead wiki is to make the template inactive, not really needing inactive as a stage... not sure, will ponder, look forward to your thoughts on it. Best, [[MarkDilley]]

==Wikis that partially shut down for other reasons: "Goal Abandoned"==

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!style="background:#aacccc; width: 8%"|status<br>name

!style="background:#aacccc; width:13%"|description<br><small>([[:Category:Wiki English|en]])</small>

!style="background:#aacccc; width:10%"|说明<br><small>([[:Category:Wiki Chinese|zh]])</small>

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|archive: there is content, but no activity because the [[wiki]] mission has been abandoned

|archive: il y a du contenu, mais aucune activité car la mission du [[wiki]] a été abandonnée

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[[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 20:05, 11 September 2012 (PDT)

::There have also been wikis that were accidentally abandoned because the owner vanished, either because he died, went to jail, or was otherwise unable to get to a computer. [[Libertapedia]]'s owner was absent for 14 months, during which time one of the sysops took over, kicked off a bunch of users, protected a bunch of pages, and conformed the site to his pro-eugenics views. I think there are actually quite a few abandoned wikis out there, although I'm not sure where one draws the line between a site owner who is simply extremely inattentive and one who is totally gone. A lot of site owners neglect their wikis to some degree or another. [[Mises Wiki]]'s tech support sucks; reported glitches remain unfixed for months sometimes, but the wiki is part of an otherwise vibrant website.

:::Regarding the 'inactive' vs 'dead' - there are problems with both - and I don't think we have reached a satisfactory resolution.  Mark prefers to use <code>{{template|inactive}}</code>, but this has (IMVHO) disatrous consquences (it basically strips out all categorisation from the former infobox).  And the <code>{{template|wiki dead}}</code> template is very untidy.  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 13:47, 14 September 2012 (PDT)

Where does one draw the line between dormant and active? There are some wikis with not much activity other than a continual battle against spam. They keep the spam down but don't accomplish much else. This chart has no middle ground between dormant and active, though; there are a lot of wikis with low, but greater than zero, activity. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 23:43, 13 September 2012 (PDT)

::That makes sense, although the description may need to be broadened because "functional but empty, or over-run by spam" doesn't really cover those situations in which the wiki has content, is kept free of spam, but has only a small amount of (but greater than zero) other constructive edits. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 15:59, 14 September 2012 (PDT)

::Hello, thanks for your comments :)  Please see my reply on your [[User talk:87.193.142.67|talk page]] - I feel that may be a better way of improving the german language translation in this template.  Warmest regards,  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 02:41, 1 February 2013 (PST)

::: The template is not free to edit. Normally I'm only here to update our project related article. Spontanously I translate something here or there. But I'm busy enough with our WikiMANNia-Project. There we have the contra problem, we can not find english speaking editors. :-) See you! --[[Special:Contributions/87.193.142.67|87.193.142.67]] 06:18, 2 February 2013 (PST)