User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment-86.161.112.209-20170505161340/@comment-68.41.43.52-20170511211352

There are ways to compensate, having an equivalent vstf can be easily formed from trusted users. Numerous MediaWiki extensions exist to fight spam, vandals so you gain much more. Dev wiki scripts are not hard to migrate out, not to mention other independent wikis already did with some - WOW for instance.

Whether or not backend, staff have not as of yet perfected PI whereas reddit had the features working properly. Large wikis are still waiting on features...

Is there no subreddit close option? Mods could also just mass delete or its as simple as leaving a sticky that has new url, still better than staff as that is prohibited even with prior compromise...