Template talk:Wiki status

Edit history

This template was created from the existing table at Category:Wiki Status. For its edit history, please see here. --Hoof Hearted 13:58, 2 January 2012 (PST)

um, wow, nice work!! ~~ MarkDilley

Thank-you :) Are there any other languages which need to be added, or any other amendments? --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

Aha - I didn't want to make any drastic changes – but yes, I agree, we have un-necessary duplication. Category:Dead currently has 270 articles, and Category:Inactive currently has 860 articles. I would personally prefer that the Dead category be kept; as Inactive has the potential to be confused with Category:Dormant. In terms of templates, we currently have both Template:Wiki dead and Template:Inactive – 'Wiki dead' renders a page better than 'Inactive' – the least preferred one can be redirected to the other. Which ever way you wish to proceed with the 1000+ affected articles, you'll need to create a bot account to process all the changes :p --Hoof Hearted 12:16, 8 January 2012 (PST)

Wikis that shut down for other reasons

What about wikis like Libertarian Wiki that disabled editing for other reasons besides reaching their goal? In that case, the wiki shut down because a couple of users copied the content and created their own forks, and the owner decided his wiki was superfluous. However, he kept it online in case anyone else wanted to do their own fork. Another example would be RationalWikiWikiWiki, which shut down because it was decided that dealing with censorship was more trouble than it was worth. Editing and even viewing by non-logged-in users was shut down, but the site was kept online for the sake of allowing users to retrieve their content. Leucosticte (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2012 (PDT)