Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-5590118-20150816093818/@comment-6475116-20150819134634

TheZombiemelon wrote: Curiouscrab wrote: Some wikis have spoken about finding a new host since Wikia has "failed to provide the security measures to protect us" and are holding polls to see whether or not to go through with the operation. We could try something like this. Plenty of wikis on Wikia grow up into their own wikis on different non-Wikia servers. We could set up an independent wiki that requires users to have their accounts created for them rather than being able to go ahead and make their own account. There are plenty of free hosting sites out there. I personally believe atspace would be the best. I was toying around with Mediawiki 1.25 and was able to set up a test wiki of my own on my free account. I later deleted it to save space since it served no purpose at the time. Atspace This sounds like a good idea, however, a wiki off wikia servers might open new security risks. Actually, it should prevent further attacks as my suggestion would be to make it a closed registration wiki thus to have an account you would have to be codeeditor here. One would have to fill out a registration request form and submit it and it would be reviewed and accepted or denied. The only issues would be if someone's account were hacked, which then Special:Protectsite would be used. Of course, some things would have to be added since Mediawiki doesn't come pre-installed with all the extensions Wikia has. And, it would have to be the same version as Wikia to make sure everything still works the same. I found that 1.25 uses a version of PHP that my computer doesn't have yet.