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 I think this article should stay as a warning to wiki users that they can't guarantee a wiki farm will keep its wikis online. I hope removing the delete notice was OK. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] 15:57, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
-:I agree, but I'm not sure about [http://scribblewikiblog.com/scribblewiki-is-shutting-down/ this link]. It is not very informative (now). It seems they removed all the comments from the page. (I checked archive.org and Google cache and they have excluded the original page from appearing there.) I however have it in me little brain here. The comments showed what they claimed when the service failed. They claimed the data was safe for quite a while before they mentioned anything about a backup service failing. Maybe there was no third-party backup service. Maybe they had their own backups or they could have recovered the data, but they didn't want to bother. But the main issue is that if people had known earlier, they may have recovered more of their wikis articles from Google cache. They kept assuring people that there was nothing to worry about. [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angela_Beesley_Starling Angela Beesley of Wikipedia/Wikia] actually came to tell people to hurry and get their wikis from Google cache, before they disappeared. I left the following comment tonight, but I'm betting this is just some way of gathering email addresses and site traffic now (notice there are no comments appearing):
+:I agree, <del>but I'm not sure about [http://scribblewikiblog.com/scribblewiki-is-shutting-down/ this link]. It is not very informative (now). It seems they removed all the comments from the page.</del> [Update: Actually the link I had in mind was [http://scribblewikiblog.com/downtime/ this one], although everything I said about the other page is true of this one.] (I checked archive.org and Google cache and they have excluded the original page from appearing there.) I however have it in me little brain here. The comments showed what they claimed when the service failed. They claimed the data was safe for quite a while before they mentioned anything about a backup service failing. Maybe there was no third-party backup service. Maybe they had their own backups or they could have recovered the data, but they didn't want to bother. But the main issue is that if people had known earlier, they may have recovered more of their wikis articles from Google cache. They kept assuring people that there was nothing to worry about. [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angela_Beesley_Starling Angela Beesley of Wikipedia/Wikia] actually came to tell people to hurry and get their wikis from Google cache, before they disappeared. I left the following comment tonight, but I'm betting this is just some way of gathering email addresses and site traffic now (notice there are no comments appearing):
 :"What happened to all the comments that used to be on this page? Did you have server crash? ;) You know that scribblewiki.com says nothing but 'It works', now. What works exactly?"
 :I say we instead link to a page that describes what happened. If none other exists, maybe I will make one from memory. [[User:Lumenos|Lumenos]] 02:22, 10 August 2009 (EDT)