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==Why It's a Miracle == | ==Why It's a Miracle == | ||
#There are many helpful community members, especially the stewards | #There are many helpful community members, especially the stewards. | ||
#It's completely ad-free, which means that its users have more privacy and its wikis have more freedom of content than users and wikis on other wiki farms. In addition, users don't have to worry about inappropriate ads appearing.<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don't_you_display_ads?|title=FAQ - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> | #It's completely ad-free, which means that its users have more privacy and its wikis have more freedom of content than users and wikis on other wiki farms. In addition, users don't have to worry about inappropriate ads appearing.<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don't_you_display_ads?|title=FAQ - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> | ||
#It has many more features than on Fandom and other wiki farms. | #It has many more features than on Fandom and other wiki farms. | ||
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#Because it relies on donations, its servers can be slow sometimes, and issues can occur. | #Because it relies on donations, its servers can be slow sometimes, and issues can occur. | ||
#*For example, an outage in mid-November 2022 caused about 1,400 wikis (about a quarter of the 5,500 wikis Miraheze hosted at the time) to go down.<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Tech:SRE_noticeboard/Archive_1#Cloud14_issues|title=Tech:SRE noticeboard/Archive 1 - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> | #*For example, an outage in mid-November 2022 caused about 1,400 wikis (about a quarter of the 5,500 wikis Miraheze hosted at the time) to go down.<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Tech:SRE_noticeboard/Archive_1#Cloud14_issues|title=Tech:SRE noticeboard/Archive 1 - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> | ||
#From March to June 2023, the wiki farm was rocked with severe drama due to the actions of a single user named Naleksuh, who was later community | #From March to June 2023, the wiki farm was rocked with severe drama due to the actions of a single user named Naleksuh, who was later community banned.<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Requests_for_Comment/Global_ban_for_Naleksuh|title=Requests for Comment/Global ban for Naleksuh - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> | ||
#*Resulting resignations led to severe shortages in critical positions such as Steward, Global Sysop, etc., which in turn led to requests taking much longer to be processed. Fortunately, this shortage ended in January 2024 when WikiTide began merging with Miraheze and most of the volunteers who resigned returned. | #*Resulting resignations led to severe shortages in critical positions such as Steward, Global Sysop, etc., which in turn led to requests taking much longer to be processed. Fortunately, this shortage ended in January 2024 when WikiTide began merging with Miraheze and most of the volunteers who resigned returned. | ||
#At the beginning of November 2023 a user named UVA that initially was a reader of this Farm, started to creating chaos using IP accounts for searching questions from the stewards. Later He has gained a bad name as a user and plus He got the global lock. | #At the beginning of November 2023 a user named UVA that initially was a reader of this Farm, started to creating chaos using IP accounts for searching questions from the stewards. Later He has gained a bad name as a user and plus He got the global lock. |