Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25330335-20170131224154/@comment-25330335-20170201025707

Setting up a privately hosted mediawiki platform all on our own would be incredibly challenging, even with Sinth and other more technically proficient admin's helps. There are many wikis that have left wikia. Most of the larger ones went for their own hosting. Also, hosting isn't cheap. The amount of space a wiki and all the edit histories and files takes up is pretty incredible. Also, our data may not be nearly as secure, or difficult to hack. We'd probably need a full time person keeping our service running.

On the other hand, there are sites that will transfer a wikia (linked through ), although that isn't easy or painless either. It means that all our contributers and other users need accounts with that site. We won't have access to forums in any way shape or form, other than talk pages.

Wikia will also refuse to delete our wiki, and will continue to use it for ad revenue (This is something I assume would happen), and also skew our search results. Migrating would be hard. I would hope that we are a large enough source of income for them that we might have enough weight that we can shove around to get us some better treatment, and maybe have our needs met. However, we aren't like wookiepedia, and that would not be easy either. Any way we go, it wouldn't be easy...