Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-3050197-20180530110321

Wedhro wrote: Raltseye wrote: You guys could always use xx.uncyclopedia.co couldn't you?

Maybe, if we wished to lose 49K images and all our accounts, and then disappear from web searches. Wikia doesn't provide full backups of a wiki, and owns the best domains with name of the wiki, see how http://www.nonciclopedia.org and http://www-nonciclopedia.it redirect to Wikia.

What happens in Wikia stays in Wikia.

Unless Wikia has disabled the core MediaWiki api (which it does not appear to have), it is still possible to get all the data you described. Uncyclopedia.co and ShoutWiki in particular maintain scripts and extensions that would allow you to avoid losing accounts, files, page histories, even potentially deleted content, so the main thing you'd need to worry about is just the ensuing SEO war Wikia insists upon, as described above. But the more projects that do this, the more effective it becomes for all of them.

Essentially, if you have the know-how, it's all open source, so you could do this yourself. Or you could use one of the two wikifarms I mentioned above, or potentially others as well.