Forum:Seeing too much "left Wikia" content in a few wikis

I've been to severals wikis in which they make it a tad too obvious that they've moved away to a wiki outside of Wikia. I think it might be acceptable in the user pages, but when they purposely somehow set a link or two on the homepage to see some "discussion" on the forums or their profile that speaks about "how and why" they left, and give an active link to an offsite wiki, isn't that overdoing it quite a lot? I mean if you are going to leave a wiki, leave, and you can leave an explanation in your profile; but when you leave hints in several places for people to find your profile, that's more than just a goodbye. Isn't it? It's more like trying to take people with you... =/ What can I do about them, should I report them, and where? --Liliana (my talk). 21:20, March 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * This is one of the few things they are allowed to so I believe.--


 * You're right, they want you to move with them. They're actually not allowed to do that (technically; this is something that's far too widespread for Wikia to patrol effectively), but I disagree with Wikia here. The community edits the wiki, if the community has moved then so has the source of the content. You're more likely to find accurate content at the new site than you are at the Wikia one, and I think the community should be allowed to inform you of that. However, if people continue to edit the wiki anyway, it would be much more accurate to inform users that the wiki forked, and give them a link to the other wiki. So check the recent changes and see if anyone has edited, if they have, you can contact staff via Special:Contact (but they're not likely to do much about it - they'll probably tell you to fix it yourself and adopt the wiki). If it's an inactive wiki, there's no harm in having the messages - in fact, they may actually make your searching easier, because then you know where the most up-to-date content is.


 * If no one is willing to adopt a wiki where the original community has moved on, then I'd have to agree with Monchoman45. If an admin on a site really cares to keep it up-to-date, then they will remove the pointer to the outside wiki. You don't report it as a problem, because the problem is really that the wiki is dying. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 21 Mar 2011 6:55 PM Pacific