User:Tali64^2/Creative Wikis Wiki has moved to Fandom

This is not an announcement I was expecting to make, but it's important nonetheless.

On August 25th, 2023, Creative Wikis Wiki hit its 50,000 daily hit limit. Today, when I went to visit it, it was gone. Poof. It turns out that ByetHost had suspended my account for hitting the limit; fortunately, I was prepared and had made a backup in case this happened. So, I went looking for another free host; however, most of them were owned by iFastNet (who also owns ByetHost), so I'd likely get kicked off of them as well. Eventually, I found a free host that looked promising - lots of bandwidth and storage, no hit limit, not owned by iFastNet. What could go wrong? So I signed up and tried to revive CWW there - only to realize that I'd walked right into a dragon trap. Yup, it was owned by iFastNet. I never stood a chance - I couldn't even log in to cPanel for fuck's sake (TBH, I'm not sure if it was because iFastNet saw what I was doing and stopped me or if the site was just broken). So, I thought about the choices I had left - I even considered choosing hosts located in India and Bangladesh. And then I realized that I only had one real option - it's obvious if you saw the title.

For the time being, Creative Wikis Wiki will be on Fandom. There's no real choice other than Fandom - Miraheze still has a ban on reception wikis, ShoutWiki's wiki creator is still offline after all this time, and EditThis.info is complete dogshit. Yes, I'm aware that Fandom kicked out the original reception wikis back in 2018; I'm also aware that Fandom only bans "hate" wikis (a.k.a negative reception wikis), so if they're gonna shut me down there, they're also gonna have to shut down this wiki, this wiki, this wiki, etc. I don't like Fandom either, but it's the only choice we have, since ByetHost/iFastNet let me down.

So, how long will CWW be on Fandom? Well, given that ShoutWiki's staff have announced that they'll be upgrading to MediaWiki 1.39 soon (possibly in September, though it'll most likely take longer), I expect ShoutWiki's wiki creator to open back up shortly after that, so it'll possibly be then. I'm aware of Fandom's very strict forking policy, so if CWW gets popular and ShoutWiki staff finally fix the wiki creator, then I don't know if a migration attempt to ShoutWiki will be successful (though knowing Fandom's popularity and high SEO, they'll most likely have an advantage).

I also want to address another issue that's plagued CWW throughout its existence - its low activity. You see, it's common for CWW to go at least a week without any activity; in fact, I'd say it's common for it to go months without activity. This is vital; every host that CWW's been on so far has had no dormancy policy, but Fandom does have one (though I don't think it's documented anywhere). And for a wiki of CWW's size, it can only go 30 days without activity before it gets closed automatically. Once a wiki hits 10 pages, however, the dormancy policy becomes much more lenient - wikis can go for months or even years with no edits and still remain open! So, here's my goal for CWW: we should aim for at least 25 pages by September 13th; if we don't hit it, then 15 pages would be acceptable - if we don't hit that goal, then 10 is the minimum.

Here's the complete timeline of CWW's existence so far (it's pretty chaotic):
 * August 2022: Money12123 (then known as FatBurn0000) creates a thread on Miraheze's stewards' noticeboard about reviving a wiki named Incredible Wikis and Users Wiki.
 * September 2022: A discussion was created on this wiki about having a sister wiki (link); meanwhile, FatBurn decides to name the IW&UW revival "Creative Wikis Wiki". Later, the Qualitipedia shutdown happens.
 * October 2022: On Miraheze, an RfC created as a direct result of the Qualitipedia shutdown passed that banned the creation of new reception wikis for an indefinite period of time.
 * December 2022: CWW is created on EditThis.info, due to the release of MediaWiki 1.39 and the possibility that ShoutWiki's wiki creator would remain offline for even longer than it already had been at that point.
 * February 2023: CWW is migrated to ByetHost, due to the limitations of EditThis.info.
 * April 2023: CWW changes domains within ByetHost due to an error on ByetHost's part.
 * August 2023: CWW is shut down on ByetHost and migrates to Fandom.

Link: https://creativewikis.fandom.com/wiki/Creative_Wikis_Wiki