WikiSpaces

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

WikiSpaces
Status of the proposal
Status	procedurally closed
Reason	Wikimedia is not a free web host and that’s the end of it. Dronebogus (talk) 06:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Details of the proposal
Project description	Free and Premium wiki hosting
Is it a multilingual wiki?	Multilingual
Potential number of languages	All the supported languages by the Translate extension
Proposed tagline	Wikis for everyone
Proposed URL	wikispaces.org, spaces.wikimedia.org, wikispaces.com
Technical requirements
New features to require	Need to have a Special:CreateWiki or Special:RequestWiki, have a LOT of server storage, ram, inodes, etc, ManageWiki-like function
Development wiki	No
Interested participants
List of project participants

So, on the Internet, there is so little competence if we are talking about WikiFarms, and Wikimedia is the king of the wikis, so, why not Wikimedia start hosting wikis for people, probably dominating the wiki market, and probably killing FANDOM with his aggressive ads, bad support, vandalism and little customization to his skin

Proposed by

Emilianooo (talk) 04:03, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Alternative names

• WikiGarden
• Wikimedia Farm

Related projects/proposals

None (I think)

Domain names

• wikispaces.org
• wiki.space
• spaces.wikimedia.org

FOR WIKIGARDEN

• wiki.garden
• wikigarden.com
• wikigarden.org

FOR WIKIMEDIA FARM

• farm.wikimedia.org

Discussion

• Strong oppose. Outside of the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation. There are plenty of fine alternatives like Miraheze, which is ad-free and non-profit. As far as I can tell, they don't do any of the shady business practices of Fandom
• Miraheze can be pretty slow for wiki approvals being community handled, also, probably is at danger of being shutdown Emilianooo (talk) 03:27, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

  For future reference Miraheeze seems to have undergone volumetric shit compression (explanation) Dronebogus (talk) 06:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)