Community Central talk:Adopt a wiki

Great Idea
This is a great idea! I've noticed a few Wikicities whose founders never really got them started. — CocoaZen 21:53, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I've noticed many wikicities have this fate... We should ask people to do some work in scratchpad: first before requesting a wikicity — Danielwang 23:19, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that might be too off-putting when they can much more easily go to another wiki hosting and get an immediate wiki. We already reject a lot of applications, and give people the option of using Scratchpad instead, but if an idea does seem to have potential, I think trialling it on a real wiki is more likely to lead to that wiki taking off than it would at Scratchpad. I'd rather use the option of closing dead wikis than never letting them open at all. Angela (talk) 04:09, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Archaeology Wiki Content Un-Available
I noticed that the content for the archaeology wiki was un-availalbe. Is there any reason for this?

The adopt a wiki page has stated that it has something to do with preventing spam, but mediawiki has the option of puting a page or a series of pages(in one process) into a static state so that they can not be edited.

Simply put up a notice that this wiki needs to be adopted, and proceed it with the original content. The original content would still be in reach, and the spam rate would be a nill factor, until the wiki is adopted.