Doom Wiki:Departure from Wikia

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Migration
MancuNET agreed to host the new site, doomwiki.org. The server maintainers are Manc and Quasar, neither of whom had previous MediaWiki backend experience, making preparation a slow process. Further delays were caused by hardware failures, ISP outages, misbehaving database software, and (as in all joint ventures among gamers) short tempers. Nonetheless, the collaboration persisted and eventually made everything functional. For legal reasons, the MediaWiki database dumps exclude images, but spicyjack provided crucial assistance in mass-downloading them.

The snapshot of doom.wikia.com was completed February 17, 2011. Subsequent edits will not be automatically migrated.

June 9, 2011 saw administrators and "power users" from the old site invited to participate in cleanup tasks.

Relaunch
The new site was launched on September 5, 2011. In theory, the Wikia site could continue to evolve with a different "mission", but a large majority of those commenting felt a clean break had occurred. Users were cautioned that posting links on the Wikia site (or even vandalizing it) might not be worthwhile. 

As of this writing (several weeks later), some minor technical issues remain, and some new features clearly need fine tuning. Most community members seem to accept doomwiki.org as "the" Doom Wiki, however, and editing has resumed at its customary pace.