Thread:Sannse/@comment-23989026-20200128222604/@comment-8-20200129220620

Wikis that aren't eligible for adoption are generally either personal wikis, or those with very low page views. In many cases, they are at the size and activity where they would be automatically deleted (I believe the script isn't running at the moment though).

It's not so much that we encourage people to make a new wiki instead, but that it's possible. If that new wiki is a success, then we can always merge the wikis and give the original URL to the new one.

But the intention is not to boost bigger wikis, but to stop giving false hope to people wanting to adopt a wiki that there's no sign of any interest in (ie. no one is searching for that topic and so visiting the site)