User blog comment:BeyonderGod/Wiki Hibernation?..../@comment-26505747-20141017151547/@comment-26505747-20141017155539

Hibernation would lockdown all contributors which means users would not be allowed to edit and contribute. It is true it would provide useful against vandalism/spam but that is the main reason why the VSTF exists, to deal with this types of problems on inactive wikis. Hibernation would stop a wiki´s growth and if it that feature existed, adoptions would be negated as the user would not be allowed to edit. If adoptions didn´t exist, the only way to "recover" the wiki would be for the user who placed it in "hibernation" to undo it but as in many inactive wikis, this user might not return.