User blog:Sannse/The Future of this Wiki

Hi all,

I've just heard the sad news that you are going to be forking this wiki. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you all before you made the decision (although I think some of you will have seen me talking on Brickipedia and other wikis)

I'd love to talk to you now, and find out if there is anything I can do to help you stay here. Wikia seems to have worked well for you so far - you have built a great wiki and community here! And I believe it can work well for you in the future.

One thing to remind people, this wiki will still be here after the fork. If anyone decides to stay, they will have everything still in place, and be able to continue to edit here. If not, then the wiki will be available for adoption after a while. Hopefully, either way, there will be a chance for this wiki to revive and continue.

ToaMeiko already mentioned some of the forking guidelines we use, and I can explain them more if needed. The full guidelines are below:


 * Please do not link to your new wiki on the main page of the Wikia version. It's OK to link to a FAQ or blog post that discusses the change and links to the new wiki. This will be taken down sometime after the move date to allow the new/remaining community to start recovering.
 * Please make sure that any messaging (including on the main page) clearly says that people have a choice to move with you or to stay.
 * Please do not post to users' talk pages with messages about the fork. We look on this as spam - just as you would have if someone came here in the past, and started leaving mass messages about their site on talk pages.
 * Please do not try to delete pages, change fundamental elements of the site or otherwise damage the content. The wiki should be left intact and available for any future editors to use.
 * Please do not use the wiki to promote your new fork. This includes templates, notices or URLs on pages other than the announcement.

This doesn't cover all possibilities of course, so I'd would like to discuss anything not covered by these guidelines in advance. But this gives the outline for fork notices and covers the most common areas

I know it's late in the process of your fork, but I still hope we will have the chance to talk more. I'll call in again tomorrow, to see how things are going.