The Anti Wikia Wiki Alliance Wiki

http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

Roberto has struck on its servers too, hasn't he? Shoutwiki has encountered some heavier problems than Uncyclomedia has had. The wikis over there have been down since autumn last year, if I'm correct.

What's next? An Anti-Shoutwiki Alliance Wiki on wikkii.com?

Does somebody know more?

My Quite Serious Opinion

This wiki has a problem and I am really fed up with it.

I think all this Holier-Than-Thou, anti-corporate "We don't have the backing of large organizations" talk has a major flaw in it's reasoning.

It's Roberto!

I would call this, "The Roberto Fallacy."

The Roberto Fallacy is the idea that anything is better than what everybody else is using, even if it doesn't actually work. This is why Ubuntu has been erroneously called "Linux for Normal People."

In case you don't get it: he's been spending all weekend digging through forum posts and getting trolled on IRC channels trying to get his Linux box to do simple tasks that it should do automatically by default without having to deal with any of that crap.

Anyway, the point is that clearly, independent hosting is not working for us. It has too much independence and not enough hosting. The site seems to be down more than it's up!!

Carib is a great guy and it's wonderful that he's been willing to donate the use of the servers and whatnot and I'm not being critical of him. This is not his fault at all. But something needs to be done to get us to a point where our site works regardless whether it's independent or looks exactly the way we want it to look or whatever other crap. Functionality: being UP and RUNNING must trump every other consideration.

Something's got to be done here. We've got to get the site running reliably, all the time. That might mean going back to Wikia or some other less than perfect outcome. But anything beats having no site.

BTW, I have an old, seldom-updated blog where I've written down some pointless rants in favor of a more balanced view of the free software and free culture movement.

More anti-Wikia propaganda!

Well, it seems nobody likes Wikia right now. A good web host should place the community above everything and do everything in their power to keep them happy. I ain't saying that Wikia don't do this, but a lot of people seem to disagree with me - cases in point:

• New Monaco. Nuff said.
  
• The Creatures Wiki claim that Wikia stole the domain they intended to move to. Allegedly. Evidence of underhand tactics? Maybe... I would have contacted Wikia but guess what? They would have fobbed me off with a generic excuse such as "I answered this already" and not give a link to where the question was answered. Annoying? Of course!!! Pull your socks up Wikia!
  
• Not even the mighty Uncyclopedia is exempt. They recently had to sell out and change their domain name to uncyc.wikia.com which is, quite frankly, not on. At least this proves there is no favouritism... or does it?! Of course, they're doing it for the money. I SHOULDA KNOWN!

Yes, I know Wikia are but a pawn in the capitalists' plan but, come on. Why does everything have to come down to money? Can't we just enjoy ourselves once in a while?

Wikia, find alternative funding.
Try the Dubai Group or Roman Abramovich but for goodness sake, Wikia, please think of the children community!

Cheers to Netdisaster.com for the pic.