Forum:Moving

Hello guys, in October we voted about leaving wikia. We decided to wait and see how the new skin is. Now that we are familiar with the new wikia skin, I think we should decide whether or not wikia is the right home for us. Here is a summary/outline with all the advantages and disadvantages if we decide to move: 100% FULL CONTROL We can move over to deadrisingwiki.com. There we will have complete control over EVERYTHING that happens with the wiki. We will also have and almost 10 other skins, including MONACO. You know, the old skin we knew and loved? Yep. USER RIGHTS Anno1404 will pay hosting costs and both myself and him will be bureaucrats. All other user rights will remain the same. POTENTIAL FOR ADVERTISING We can have the site advertising free, or if the community decides too, we can have ads as little or as much as we want, and all money from ads will 100% will go directly back toward the site. This opens up A LOT of possibilities for our community. Right now, the value of the site is all going to wikia and based on what we have seen, our site is worth thousands of dollars. EXTENSIONS Wikia extensions are difficult to use outside of wikia, but other alternatives exist for all extensions, some even better than wikia. In addition, we can do so much more on our own site. There are literally thousands of extensions on mediawiki. In the long term, wikia will continue to screw us over with new "features" and more like oasis if we stay on wikia. In the long term when we get up to full stride, this will ultimately be the best way to solve the problems we've had with the wiki. You may also be thinking "this is too good to be true, what are the problems or catches?" and there are a couple problems, those being that we may get some technical difficulties in the beginning, but those can and will be resolved. I have thought this out incredibly thoroughly, and this is the solution I thought was best for the wikis, as well as one that would be relatively easy for you guys to switch to. We can transfer immediately after the vote, if we choose so. NOTIFICATION ON PAGE After we are transferred, we can post a main wikia page notice. The staff has allowed a notice in a box on the main page, that links to the discussion to move instead of the site itself. Well, what does the community think? I for one think that this is honestly the best possible solution. Thanks for reading and considering this. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Jax - Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 14:28, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

Move to deadrisingwiki.com

 * I vote for this. It's the best way to solve the problems we're having. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Jax - Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 14:28, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

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