Wikia allows anyone to create a wiki by simply following a simple form and filling in some
basic information. Once that's done, you can start working on your new wiki.
Their own rules allow the hosting of anything except adult content (i.e. - pornographic)
like most other wiki services. They are completely ad supported, so there is no cost to
host a wiki.
They will install several extensions by request, including Semantic MediaWiki and several
extensions (albeit somewhat older versions), but they only have Monobook as the other skin
besides the Oasis skin, and they otherwise don't allow much in the way of
customization, especially anything that might interfere with the placement of ads on a
site wide basis.
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
From: wjhonson(a)aol.com
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:31:46 -0400
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting
service?
I was always under the impression that Wikia *approves* sites.
You can't just have them host anything you want, they have to agree to it.
Is that not the case?
Also would you know what they charge?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Swing <Ed.Swing(a)sas.com>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 5:21 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting
service?
There is always Wikia. They're a few versions behind, but host a TON of wikis
already. You can even have them enable various extensions (like Semantic
Bundle).
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on behalf of Mlpearc [mlpearc(a)everythingfoodanddrink.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki
hosting service?
This would be interesting for my little farm, I have the time to put into
it but not the needed "know how" to fix issues, install some extensions
etc, but as Wjhonson states it would have to be adorable to those users.
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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Atlassian sells a Confluence in the cloud at a
per seat cost.
VisualEditor would make MediaWiki a decent competitor from the
perspective of the corporate types I've seen involved in such
purchasing decisions. I'm not sure how much traction it'd have but
there is something to say for MediaWiki being the wiki that everyone
is used to.
Nik
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Andre Polykanine <andre(a)oire.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Agreed with Brion completely.
> Such hosting would be an extremely useful thing, but it should have no
> ads (at least as a payed option), be able to redirect to a custom
> domain, and have all the things Brion mentioned. I would pay for it, I
> think.
>
>
>
> --
> With best regards from Ukraine,
> Andre
> Skype: Francophile
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http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian)
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