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* In many cases, your project does not have your own userlist if your wiki is one among many in a wiki farm environment. This both limits your choice of username (as many will already be in use elsewhere on the site) and poses an obstacle should you later wish to move your project to some other host. | * In many cases, your project does not have your own userlist if your wiki is one among many in a wiki farm environment. This both limits your choice of username (as many will already be in use elsewhere on the site) and poses an obstacle should you later wish to move your project to some other host. | ||
* Wiki farms typically do not provide the ability to seamlessly mix wikis with non-wiki applications such as message boards, portals, blogs, forums and galleries. The configuration is typically a predefined one used across all wikis on the site, which does not afford you the same levels of access to customisation as would installing the wiki software of your choice on a regular commercial webhost. | * Wiki farms typically do not provide the ability to seamlessly mix wikis with non-wiki applications such as message boards, portals, blogs, forums and galleries. The configuration is typically a predefined one used across all wikis on the site, which does not afford you the same levels of access to customisation as would installing the wiki software of your choice on a regular commercial webhost. | ||
* [[ScribbleWiki]] went offline without warning in early Autumn 2008. There is no guarantee that such disasters won't recur. | * [[ScribbleWiki]] went offline without warning in early Autumn 2008 and [[ElWiki]] went down in 2007. There is no guarantee that such disasters won't recur. | ||
=== Key questions to ask === | === Key questions to ask === | ||