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== Wikis that partially shut down for other reasons: "Goal Abandoned" == | ==Wikis that partially shut down for other reasons: "Goal Abandoned"== | ||
What about wikis like [http://libertarianwiki.paulstudier.com/ 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 [http://rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/ 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 disabled (for the sake of appeasing those who objected to its content), but the site was kept online for the sake of allowing users to retrieve their content. | What about wikis like [http://libertarianwiki.paulstudier.com/ 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 [http://rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/ 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 disabled (for the sake of appeasing those who objected to its content), but the site was kept online for the sake of allowing users to retrieve their content. | ||
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::By the way — maybe we should just call it "inactive" and move the wikis currently in the inactive category into the "dead" category? That way, the inactive category can actually have some usefulness. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:58, 13 September 2012 (PDT) | ::By the way — maybe we should just call it "inactive" and move the wikis currently in the inactive category into the "dead" category? That way, the inactive category can actually have some usefulness. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:58, 13 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
:::I think this 'Abandoned' has a real prospect. We must really wait for out esteemed leader (along with the rest of the admin team) to have their say though. | :::I think this 'Abandoned' has a real prospect. We must really wait for out esteemed leader (along with the rest of the admin team) to have their say though. | ||
:::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>{{ | :::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) | ||
== Big gap between dormant and active == | == Big gap between dormant and active == | ||