Forum:Proposal

Wikia's unilateral introduction of it's "new style" chuckled with ads in ridiculous places, including the very article space itself and thus ruining the layout of many articles, has increasingly annoyed me lately and vastly diminished my fun in editing Wikia wikis.

This makes that I have been toying with the thought of moving the content of this wiki somewhere else and that I've now reached the point that I can say that this could be a realistic prospect and I am willing to spend money on it. I've found a decent wiki host and a way to quite easily move all of the content in a matter of, I estimate, hours rather than days.

Moving to an external server as an independent wiki would grant us much more options in managing the wiki, including a reswitch to monobook with more article space than Wikia's monobook offers, implementing the MediaWiki extensions we choose to implement and the ability to set up our own version of Commons with the other language wiki's, unhindered by the presence of a big company creating unwanted policies for us.

The GFDL licence also completely allows us to move the content to any place we want, only the site itself is Wikia's property, the actual content is freely distributable and as Wikia states itself "owned by the communities".

In other words I propose moving to a different server and am completely willing to take personally pay for this, so the plan would be completely free of charge for all other users of this wiki. Personally I would like to start as soon as possible and am thus very curious what the community thinks of this and whether you would like me to do this. --Karsten vK (talk) 19:37, 10 July 2008 (UTC)