Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-1330470-20140315003845

WikiMan wrote: Dartmaster8, I think that situation could harm one thing on the long run - Wikia's servers, and ultimately, Wikia's wealth.

I mean, what happens if not 100, 200, but like 900 wikis about the same topic waste the space these servers provide, to the point that the servers theirselves might be at their fullest and they can't have anymore room for anymore wikis?

To cope this, Wikia might buy more and more servers to hold more wikis, possibly making Wikia waste money as it buys the servers, and's that gonna be a lot of trouble for both Wikia and us Wikians.

It's like having too much files in your computer, you have to either erase some or buy a better computer.

Also Sannse, you think that this thing "takes little staff time", right? I've got the theory is that Wikia's staff doesn't care about this. Well, you can implement the policy I proposed or think about liberating server space for more wikis to be host. -wikiman meet. talk. 22:49, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, though I think duplicate wikis should be avoided, I really doubt that wasted server space will end up being a very serious issue.

The primary issue here, I think, and one that I have seen in administering a moderately-small wiki such as wolfenstein, is that users will create and contribute to their own wikis on the subject when their efforts might be better directed toward working together on one.