Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25342153-20150821181145

Hello, Community Central community.

I have a question regarding what happens if a wiki that has a lot of content and was once heavily trafficed is shut down for lack of activity.

Here's what I do know:

1) "Wikis that remain inactive for several months, without any interest in adoption, may be merged or closed by Wikia Staff..."(source)

2) "In the case of complete closure of a wiki that previously had content (that did not violate the Terms of Use), the database of content would be made available for download." (same source as above)

3) "To access the download (of an open wiki), go to the Special:Statistics page for the wikia." (source)

So here are my questions:

1) How is it determined which wikis which remain inactive with no adoption interest remain open and which are closed?

2) Is it possible for staff to reopen a wiki that has been closed, perhaps by some sort of special user request?

3) A closed wiki remains available for download, but typical downloads occur on the wiki itself. If a wiki is closed, from where would one download its pages?

4) Does anyone have any examples or incidents of wikis that met the "closed for being inactive even though they had content" criteria and are now closed? I would like to try the download feature for myself.

Thank you,

CerealBoxHead. 