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*Depending on the wiki farm, you may or may not be able to choose the [[:Category:Wiki license|license]] terms for your content.  Ability to download content and [[:Category:Database|database]] also varies widely.
*Depending on the wiki farm, you may or may not be able to choose the [[:Category:Wiki license|license]] terms for your content.  Ability to download content and [[:Category:Database|database]] also varies widely.
*In most cases, the choice of whether to depend on [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]] revenue to fund a site, or to pay your own way is taken away from you.  Where [[:Category:Server|servers]] are funded by advertising, you have little or no control over the source ''or'' content of advertisements; some of which may be inappropriate.  This may mean that your gaming community could be sponsored by vendors of tools to cheat at those games, or that your kids-oriented site is exposed to age-inappropriate sales pitches.
*In most cases, the choice of whether to depend on [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]] revenue to fund a site, or to pay your own way is taken away from you.  Where [[:Category:Server|servers]] are funded by advertising, you have little or no control over the source ''or'' content of advertisements; some of which may be inappropriate.  This may mean that your gaming community could be sponsored by vendors of tools to cheat at those games, or that your kids-oriented site is exposed to age-inappropriate sales pitches.
*Using a wiki farm can cost <u>you</u> control of <u>your</u> {{tag|WikiIdea|ideas}}, your project, and your intellectual property.  <u>Read the fine print</u>; while the owners of <u>some</u> wiki farms talk as if the project is 'owned by the community', you may find that any domain names, project names, and [[:Category:WikiLogo|logos]] are the property not of the individual project, but automatically become the property of the [[:Category:Wiki company|company]] that runs the wiki farm.  The license on the content of your wiki is also likely to be one in which the wiki farm either [[:Category:Wiki Site retains copyright|takes control itself]], or licenses your content for [[:Category:Wiki Proprietary license|commercial for-profit distribution]] elsewhere on the internet.  This can lead to problems where websites [[mirror]] incomplete or outdated copies of your content in order to draw traffic away from your project, and to a copy on which outside advertisers keywords, advertisements, and links have been placed.
*Using a wiki farm can cost <u>you</u> control of <u>your</u> {{tag|wiki idea|ideas}}, your project, and your intellectual property.  <u>Read the fine print</u>; while the owners of <u>some</u> wiki farms talk as if the project is 'owned by the community', you may find that any domain names, project names, and [[:Category:WikiLogo|logos]] are the property not of the individual project, but automatically become the property of the [[:Category:Wiki company|company]] that runs the wiki farm.  The license on the content of your wiki is also likely to be one in which the wiki farm either [[:Category:Wiki Site retains copyright|takes control itself]], or licenses your content for [[:Category:Wiki Proprietary license|commercial for-profit distribution]] elsewhere on the internet.  This can lead to problems where websites [[mirror]] incomplete or outdated copies of your content in order to draw traffic away from your project, and to a copy on which outside advertisers keywords, advertisements, and links have been placed.
*In many cases, your project does not have your own [[user list]] if your wiki is one among many in a wiki farm environment.  This both limits your choice (and future community members) of [[username]] (as many may 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 [[user list]] if your wiki is one among many in a wiki farm environment.  This both limits your choice (and future community members) of [[username]] (as many may 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 <u>not</u> provide the ability to seamlessly mix wikis with non-wiki applications, such as message boards, [[:Category:Portal|portals]], [[:Category:Blog|blogs]], [[:Category:Internet forum|forums]], and galleries.  The configuration is typically a predefined one used across all wiki sites on the farm, meaning this does not afford you the same levels of access to [[:Category:Custom skin|customisation]] as would installing the wiki software of your choice on a regular commercial wiki-capable web-host.
*Wiki farms typically do <u>not</u> provide the ability to seamlessly mix wikis with non-wiki applications, such as message boards, [[:Category:Portal|portals]], [[:Category:Blog|blogs]], [[:Category:Internet forum|forums]], and galleries.  The configuration is typically a predefined one used across all wiki sites on the farm, meaning this does not afford you the same levels of access to [[:Category:Custom skin|customisation]] as would installing the wiki software of your choice on a regular commercial wiki-capable web-host.
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