Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-48209-20140301140705

These things happen all the time. The Resident Evil Wiki even made a list of forks and alt. language editions (and forks of those). Almost all look like they were abandoned immediately. I imagine a lot of users create their own wikis to experiment with being SysOps (or were banned from one wiki and figured they could make a better one on their own), then either abandon their pet-project or leave Wikia altogether.

On the other hand, there are other wikis that aren't intended to be forks. The "Red vs. Blue Wiki" most likely exists because they didn't know a wiki on the same subject already existed (albeit with a URL of "rvb.wikia.com").

Is there any chance Wikia can go to the wikis that were abandoned immediately and ask the Founder if they're still interested in keeping the sites up?