Wikia v WikiFree
From the group that combats the Wikia skin, the Anti-Wikia alliance.
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All ShoutWiki wikis can now have the Monaco skin, see this announcement. You can also add the Monaco skin to your wiki in 10 minutes (Detailed instructions) (Discussion and questions)
TALK | MOVING | MOVED | CLOSED | HELP | ATTACKS | DOI | WHY |
Below are the differences between Wikia and WikiFree and detailed instructions on how to leave Wikia for WikiFree.
Differences between Wikia and WikiFree[edit | edit source]
Feature | WikiFree | Wikia |
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Choice of skin | WikiFree allows users to choose the following skins: Apex, BlueSky, Blueprint, Bouquet, Cologne Blue, DeskMessMirrored, Example, Foreground, Modern, Monaco, MonoBook, Nostalgia, Truglass, Vector, WPtouch, funtoo | Wikias are forced to use Oasis, the current Wikia skin. |
Leaving the wiki | Deletes wikis on requestTemplate:Citation needed | Refuses to delete the wiki on request, staff will block and desysop editors who advertise the new website. |
Advertising | WikiFree is ad-free! |
10 locations:
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Ad free hosting | All WikiFree-hosted wikis are ad-free. | No longer available as of August 7, 2015[1] |
Load times | 6.8 seconds to load page[2] | 5.3 seconds to load page[2] |
Extensions | Further information: Wikia v WikiFree/extensions | |
BlogArticles[3] | At request | Yes |
Forum | At request | Yes |
Achievements | No | Yes |
Poll (Ajax poll) | Yes | Yes |
ShoutBox | At request | No |
Rich Text Editor | At request | Yes |
Liquid Threads | At request | No |
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Ad free wikis - Wikia Community Central[dead link] - "Wikia recently started offering ad-free wikis for $19.95 a month. Any wiki with less than 20,000 pageviews per month is eligible for this program." On November 24, 2010, the program was still ongoing (see Talk:Ad free wikis § Still ongoing?). On May 13, 2015, the outdated page was deleted by DaNASCAT.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Compare Reports: wikifree.altervista.org, community.wikia.com, GTmetrix.
- ↑ Coding