Post by edelgard on Feb 24, 2020 8:09:36 GMT
Hello!
I'm the founder of a 10-year old wiki which, up until now, has been hosted in FANDOM. For several reasons (such as my ethical concerns regarding their business model, or the fact that my wiki is filled with their very invasive ads), I'd like to move my wiki to a different hosting. I've been doing a bit of research and I've found that the lost media wiki undertook this process a few years ago. If possible, I'd like to ask a few questions about this, as I'm just getting started in this process.
1) Who is the owner of the articles of the wiki I founded? The community? Me? FANDOM? If I copy them in my hypothetical new wiki, would this imply a legal problem?
2) I would not like to split my community between two wikias. I have seen that FANDOM likes to keep their version of the wikia that migrated lying around, with the intention of farming ad money. Considering that I don't have that much resources, and that I intend to keep the new wiki ad-free, I would not be able to compete with the placement that this hypothetical ghost version of my wiki would have in google searches. What can I do to prevent this competition? A few...unorthodox tactics come to mind, such as changing the name of the FANDOM wiki (which requires filling a query and waiting for them to approve it) to something unrelated, or slowly erasing articles, probably saying that I'm moving the wiki in the front page, and keeping control of the FANDOM wiki after I've migrated (I've seen that FANDOM blocked the Lost Media Wiki's account after the migration, but they won't do the same to the other members of the staff, right? They agree with my decision, so they could still enforce the migration from their positions).
Thanks in advance!
