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==Bad Qualities==

#You have to request a wiki instead of being able to create one yourself, although it's to make sure that wikis don't violate the Content Policy.

#*This is also why it's quite hard to set up a wiki at times, as they may decide not to accept a request~~, as the reception wiki has recently banned it~~.

#*This is also why it's quite hard to set up a wiki at times, as they may decide not to accept a request.

#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>

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#*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.

#To appeal a global unlock, you usually have to wait three months, similar to how [[Wikipedia]]'s "standard offer" requires indefinitely blocked users to wait six months before appealing.

#*This can also make appealing hard at times, as Stewards may decide not to unlock an account

==References==

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 ==Bad Qualities==
 #You have to request a wiki instead of being able to create one yourself, although it's to make sure that wikis don't violate the Content Policy.
-#*This is also why it's quite hard to set up a wiki at times, as they may decide not to accept a request, as the reception wiki has recently banned it.
+#*This is also why it's quite hard to set up a wiki at times, as they may decide not to accept a request.
 #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>
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 #*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.
+#To appeal a global unlock, you usually have to wait three months, similar to how [[Wikipedia]]'s "standard offer" requires indefinitely blocked users to wait six months before appealing.
+#*This can also make appealing hard at times, as Stewards may decide not to unlock an account
 ==References==