Forum:Changing URL to that of an existing wiki

During April this year I created Top Shot Wiki (URL: http://topshotonhistory.wikia.com/) for the show on the History Channel. I visited another Top Shot Wiki (URL: http://topshot.wikia.com/) beforehand, and was unsure what the real focus of it was, considering there were a few pages that were made by the founder that were completely off-topic. I was wondering if there was a way that the URL of my wiki be changed to topshot.wikia.com, considering the founder of the original Top Shot Wiki never visits and it has remained inactive since December 14, 2010. --


 * If you can contact the founder, you have two options. You can redirect the topshot.wikia.com url to topshotonhistory.wikia.com or you can move all your content to to the topshot.wikia.com url through a database dump and redirect your wikis url there. A database dump does not include images though. Both of these depend on contacting the founder there or adopting the wiki for yourself and then redirecting it.--


 * So how would the images be uploaded to the new site? Would it have to be done manually, or is there a quicker way than that? --


 * You would have to do it manually. I would suggest the former way rather than the later, saves you a bunch of time and anyone searching for topshot.wikia.com will still land on your site.--


 * That does seem like the most logical way of doing things. So if I have the URL changed to topshotonhistory.wikia.com, will the design, main page, wordmark, and favicon stay like they are on my wiki, or will I have to change everything again? --


 * Its just a redirect so your wiki will remain untouched while the topshot.wikia.com url is just redirected to your wiki.--


 * Okay. Thank you for taking time to answer my questions! --