Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-1140346-20160202011823

Hey everybody. I'm curious how Wikia deals with domain squatters? I want to start a new Wiki for a website I enjoy, but someone's already made a Wiki with the name of said website. However, the only activity that ever took place on the Wiki is a "Welcome to Wikia" auto-message from one of Wikia's staff members. The Founder has 0 edits. There are no other users. There's simply nothing there at all. The Wiki was made in May, so this isn't a case of them not having time to get started yet.

Now, I know the proper adoption routine says I need to be editing on the Wiki for a week before I can adopt it. However, I am leery to do any editing on a Wiki that is clearly being squatted on. There is a good chance that once the Wiki begins to have activity, the squatter will return and start causing problems. There's also the fact that beginning an entire Wiki from start is a hard enough task - let alone when you have no Admin/Founder rights.

So it seems my only option is to start a new Wiki with a slightly different name...? Or is there some way to adopt a Wiki without prior editing in a situation like this? 