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{{InfoboxWiki | {{InfoboxWiki | ||
|Name=Miraheze | |Name=Miraheze | ||
|Image=Miraheze | |Image=Miraheze-Logo.svg | ||
|Type=Wiki farm | |Type=Wiki farm | ||
|Founded=July 22, 2015 | |Founded=July 22, 2015 | ||
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#*For example, wiki owners have much more control over their wikis' settings than on other wiki farms thanks to an extension named ManageWiki.<ref>{{web|url=https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ManageWiki|title=Extension:ManageWiki - MediaWiki}}</ref> They are able to control what individual user groups can do and even create their own custom groups, among other things. | #*For example, wiki owners have much more control over their wikis' settings than on other wiki farms thanks to an extension named ManageWiki.<ref>{{web|url=https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ManageWiki|title=Extension:ManageWiki - MediaWiki}}</ref> They are able to control what individual user groups can do and even create their own custom groups, among other things. | ||
#*Miraheze also has hundreds of extensions that wiki owners can enable by themselves through ManageWiki,<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Extensions|title=Extensions - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> unlike Fandom, which only has 49 extensions, 17 of which have to be enabled by Fandom staff, not by the wiki owners themselves.<ref>{{web|url=https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Extensions|title=Help:Extensions {{!}} Community Central {{!}} Fandom}}</ref> | #*Miraheze also has hundreds of extensions that wiki owners can enable by themselves through ManageWiki,<ref>{{web|url=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Extensions|title=Extensions - Miraheze Meta}}</ref> unlike Fandom, which only has 49 extensions, 17 of which have to be enabled by Fandom staff, not by the wiki owners themselves.<ref>{{web|url=https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Extensions|title=Help:Extensions {{!}} Community Central {{!}} Fandom}}</ref> | ||
#*In addition, you can even set up your own private wiki. | |||
#Many good wikis can be found on the site, such as: | #Many good wikis can be found on the site, such as: | ||
#* ''Pizza Tower'' wiki | #* ''Pizza Tower'' wiki | ||
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#* Strip Poker Night at the Inventory wiki | #* Strip Poker Night at the Inventory wiki | ||
#Their site engineers won't hesitate to fix any bugs and are open to feature requests. | #Their site engineers won't hesitate to fix any bugs and are open to feature requests. | ||
#When they moved to the USA and merged with WikiTide, a similar platform, they increased the server quality, decreasing bugs. | |||
==Bad Qualities== | ==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. | #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 | #*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. | #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> | ||
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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. | #*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. | ||
#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== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Wiki hosting services]] | [[Category:Wiki hosting services]] | ||