If Wikidot is gone then our pages and site will be gone too. But can we donate to Wikidot and help them. Keeping the web builder fresh and new? It's been 10 years for Wikidot. No one has talk about it in the community forums just the SCP wiki and the RPC wiki. Might worry people that already have a wiki website on Wikidot and probably their website will be gone. People as users from this community reading. Backup your pages on your website. Or maybe if we can donate and help Wikidot and support them.
The problem is the missing backup function in tje site manager.
With it youcan save your code and files in txt form on your harddisk and transfer it to another wiki platform.
The queue is stopped…
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Wikidot has started 2006.
It is a shame, that the service is "Dying".
I dp notknow if the pro accounts could save it, butit is too late.
It is a shame.
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Unfortunately that backup utility is limited. It doesn't save revisions, votes, or forum comments, and all the files are unorganized and in a big pile instead of being attached to their respective pages.
Even more critically, there is no utility to restore a site from a backup. These backups are little better than nothing.
I don't think it'd be much to worry about. I think if they knew they were going down, they'd offer some sort of backup system. Wikidot has been around a good long while, and I believe they are smarter than that.
-Researcher Vance, Site 58.
Author of SCP-6784
It seems here is a guy who has same worries, you.
In fact, i'm caring about the Wikidot Team more than the funds. The most recently activity that the Team held is the Black Friday in 2018 — nearly 3 years from now. I have no other ideas but the Team has left.
As if the Team still has an eye on wikidot i do not think they will just let it go. No ads on other plat to draw new users, most of the newbies use wikidot merely for SCP or RPC Wiki, it should not be like now if the Team still keeps.
Therefore donations without donatory are useless too.
Work for both private / fanmake sites and Wikidot official sites. Welcome to contact if you have any front-end issues or Wikidot bugs to report. I will reply within 24 hrs and give the possible solution.
I don't think there has been an actual development team since 2016. I think it's just the CEO left and he does not pay attention to Wikidot anymore.
I still have not found a good alternative for wikidot, so its a big shame and worry.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Yes, as far as we know Wikidot has not been actively developed or maintained for years. It sometimes gets bugfixes but in general it degrades faster than it's repaired.
If you don't have a large site and don't mind converting your pages manually, you could use Miraheze as an alternate wikifarm. It is backed by MediaWiki instead of Wikidot so you will need to adjust all your permissions, page syntax, etc manually to get it to work in a different system.
Thanks for the suggestion! I've not heard of Miraheze before. I really dont like mediawiki syntax, but I think that is probably the only alternative at this point. I'm not super convinced it can do the things wikidot can but I have not looked super hard into it. For all its flaws, wikidot lets folks like me who dont know beans about coding websites to make some pretty useful things. One of my sites acts like a pseudo deviant-art. Super rudimentary, but something i'd never be able to do on my own otherwise.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
This is a major concern of mine. I've poured a great deal of attention into my wikidot site and I feel like it's potentially all at risk.
Yes I have as well. I'm sure if the situation got some media attention, he would come running in fear of bad press. As mysterious as it all is though, I doubt any outlet cares about a wikifarm languishing from an AWOL owner.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Sorry, Naomi, I am not an english natural speaker … what stands for "AWOL"?
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awol means "absent without leave" a military term for deserting or leaving without being excused
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Thanks for Information - this is really true !
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The first user (as I know) is coming to Wikidot from Miraheze now..
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I saw that! That made me chuckle, but Wikidot really is the best! Oh, i wish there was a way for it to go into the hands of the community.
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I do not know why Wikidot was deleted from wikipedia so often ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Wikidot )
- 03:21, 6 February 2021 Hog Farm talk contribs deleted page Wikidot (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikidot (XFDcloser))
- 16:43, 10 March 2008 Orangemike talk contribs deleted page Wikidot (A7 (group): Group/band/club/company/etc; doesn't indicate importance/significance)
- 16:31, 10 March 2008 Orangemike talk contribs deleted page Wikidot (A7 (group): Group/band/club/company/etc; doesn't indicate importance/significance)
- 13:30, 10 March 2008 😂 talk contribs deleted page Wikidot (Speedy deleted per (CSD A7), was an article about a web site, blog, online forum, webcomic, podcast, or similar web content that didn't assert the importance or significance of its subject.)
Are there competitors influencing the authors?
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2022,Wikidot is deleted on Chinese Wikipedia.
Saving page…
Here is the wikipedia deletion log and the discussion about it ( 2021):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikidot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikidot
As I understand there were no edit since 2007 on the wikidot main page and only a lot of business information (no edit of another people !)
the developer has ignored the wishes from the users to maintain it.
Th result is a deletion of an article if it is OLD, and no edits were done ( wikidot has not really changed since 2015 ).
See also the blog entry and discussins on http://community.wikidot.com/blog:is-wikidot-still-worth-a-shot-in-2019
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