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Miraheze to shut down

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Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by cxr »

This is a bummer.

Miraheze is/was a wiki farm that provided a free Mediawiki-based wiki to pretty much anyone who was able to articulate a reason and fill out a request to be given one. This was invaluable in an age where the term "wiki" has become so debased that "a bunch of Markdown files in a GitHub repo" is, against all good taste and reason, considered a wiki. Miraheze was supported by donations, which is almost certainly why it's shutting down. There's no reason I can see that it shouldn't have allowed you to set up an annual bill-me cycle, but it didn't. And now it's going away, unfortunately. It would've be a good candidate for a pay-what-you-want model that incorporated usage-based pricing.

Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

> ...long term sustainability problems, financial situation...

Weird, because https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Finance says they have more money right now than they had at the start of the year and twice as much as they had the same time last year.

> Owen and Alexander are fully committed to seeing the sustained growth of Miraheze

> Compared to where we were before 2019, Miraheze is in a much better financial position, has drastically improved its legal standing and compliance and has taken strides to improve the technological stack behind the project through the right levels of investment being open for technical volunteers to harness.

So, which is it? Are you shutting down or fully committed to sustained growth? Are you now unsustainable or better financially than ever before?

Nothing about this announcement makes sense to an outside observer who has no idea what "taking into account recent events" means.

Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by Tomte »

That's sad.

Some time ago there was some huge fallout/fight visible on their Discord which I did not understand (it was all referencing some internal Wiki, mailing lists etc.).

That seem to be the "recent events" on first position in the announcement.

Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by [deleted] »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #3

> ...long term sustainability problems, financial situation... Weird, because https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Finance says they have more money right now than they had at the start of the year and twice as much as they had the same time last year. > Owen and Alexander are fully committed to seeing the sustained growth of Miraheze > Compared to where we were before 2019, Miraheze is in a much better financial position,…

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Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by KomoD »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #3

> ...long term sustainability problems, financial situation... Weird, because https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Finance says they have more money right now than they had at the start of the year and twice as much as they had the same time last year. > Owen and Alexander are fully committed to seeing the sustained growth of Miraheze > Compared to where we were before 2019, Miraheze is in a much better financial position,…

Yeah what is up with that...

Re: Miraheze to shut down

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Post by Arnavion »

kruuuder wrote: post #6

This is the first time I'm hearing about this platform. Should I have been aware of it before?

I only knew about it because a popular mod Space Exploration for the video game Factorio has its wiki hosted on it. Actually even then I never went up to miraheze.org to look at the rest of the site.
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