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Tales of Androgyny

A game about birds, bees, flowers and trees. · By Majalis

Fandom wiki is considering closing Tales of Androgyny wiki

A topic by Budouka created Nov 24, 2022 Views: 6,730 Replies: 5
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The average coverage was 2400 views a day making out at 3200 views a day few times a month. The wiki is possible to be backed up and in moved to another host.

If somebody knows an alternative mediawiki host, the suggestions will be highly appreciated. If not, the info here may disappear.

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Shoud try wikidot

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I want to say thank you Budouka for being aware of all these things. I noticed you have been around this for a while and have been vocal too. Thank you.

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Don't know if you're still looking, but anyways, here's a relatively big list of possible options https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services and out of all of them https://miraheze.org/ seems to be the best fit (it's free, UK-based and should be ok for the most part; also I'm in no way associated with them I just want a nice wiki for the game)

Here are some links for your careful study with some thoughts after a quick read:

ToS - https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use ; fairly standard stuff (nothing prohibited by UK law, no responsibility for incorrect info in user's content, some administration on their part, etc)

Privacy Policy - https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy ; typical stuff for any hosting provider (stuff like sharing some rights to content to provide service), same as Fandom, non-registered content edits show IP address and registered show username

Content Policy - https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Content_Policy ; this should be most carefully scanned

  • point 1. seems to target e-commerce, quoting "However, you can have limited fundraiser-type sales or provide an informational site supporting a commercial activity (for instance, a wiki describing characters from a commercial work of fiction)." so links to other platforms (ex. patreon) shouldn't be a problem
  • point 4. someone has to admin wiki but I presume that was already a thing
  • point 6. I don't believe game's ambigious on this front
  • after point 13. default wiki content license is CreativeCommons but can be changed to non-permissive licenses etc, more here https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Help:Changing_your_wiki_license
  • and very relevant section of rules for NSFW stuff
    • main page has to have entry popup that wiki is 18+
    • no explicit images on main page
    • explicit images on side pages should be "where possible" collapsed by default (yay, no more blurred images)
    • there's also sentence in bold font, that subdomains and site names shouldn't be explicit - I think both ToA or full name for domain shouldn't be an issue, as for side pages it shouldn't be too hard for admin(s) to set custom URLs that are safe
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Thank you. Yes, miraheze is a good option, and they specifically allowed such games to create wikis. The problem is they're absolutely free of profit, they pay for hosting because they're so generous. The wiki will get deleted if nobody will contribute to it and just occupies the space, and, judging by how it was going until now, contributors are not appearing. But it's an option.

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That's a valid concern and I did miss the https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormancy_Policy but looking at it now there is whole section on exemptions from those rules, specifically for read-only oriented wikis, with a whole list https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormancy_Policy/Exemptions ; looking at them (there are some game wikis and even an eroge one), if asked nicely, ToA wiki definitely makes a valid case for an indefinite exemptio