Help


 * See Frequently asked Questions for how to leave wikia.

Moving wikis, especially if you are not being hosted by shoutwiki, can be difficult and a lot of work. The anti-wikia alliance is here to help make that translation easier.

Mentors
Volunteer to be a mentor to give technical advice or simply for moral support to editors trying to leave wikia.
 * 1) Will give moral support and any technical advice I can. Anno1404 18:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Me too, as a Staffer of the Club Penguin Wiki Network and the main guy moving Apple Wiki. Power to the People! 01:08, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Share your story
 Share your story of what problems you had leaving wikia, and what you would do different if you could do it again.

We want to hear your story and valuable advice! Please begin your story with: Please be specific as possible, if you feel comfortable about it, share prices and hosting names.
 * 1) the name of your new site, and
 * 2) a short one word summary.

Anno1404s experience
New site name:
 * deadrisingwiki.com (work in progress)

My advice:


 * Unless you are extremely technical proficient, have a wiki farm host your wikia.

My story:
 * After 24 days of hell and literally days trying to get my mediawiki to get transferred I spent $200 just to set my wiki up. more details

Power to the People!/Frozen Wind/Andrew's experience
New site name:
 * various (all the wikis on the Club Penguin Wiki Network)

My advice:
 * You need manpower to move, mainly for large wikis. That's what we did to move our wikis.

My story:
 * It was months. First, we had to get a good host (on Halloween eve we got a DreamHost account set up). Then we had to configure all the MediaWiki installs. Then we couldn't use the normal importDump.php method due to the dumps being large, and ended up using man-power. Next came images, which also will take a lot of time. We used upload from URL to help speed this up. The moving is still going on.