Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-4974276-20130728150606/@comment-20644-20130728180515

Sorry but no. You are entitled to take the content elsewhere, including another Wikia wiki, but this wiki will not be locked or deleted.

You need to remember that when it comes to leaving a wiki open, it's also not just for editors. MicroWiki has had over 100,000 page views a month every month for a year. That's really good. So a lot of people here might be thinking "well it's our pages so we should be able to delete or archive the wiki," but a wiki is more than just editors. It's also readers. There may be 20 of you here who are editing, but compared to the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people who read this wiki every month, you're a microscopic fraction of the total number of people this wiki is here for. You might not miss it if it was deleted, but thousands of other people will.

If you move to a new wiki, either on or off Wikia, you will lose those page views. All of them. You will have to start completely from scratch. Everyone here has to make that decision for themselves about whether they care about that, but it's a factor you should consider and it's a big reason why we're not going to close or archive this one.

Keep in mind that if you want to continue using a wiki, Wikia has the unparalleled ability to put your wiki at the top of search engine results. Here are some examples:


 * If you type "micronation wiki" into Google, MicroWiki is the third, right after two Wikipedia results. MicroWiki is also the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th result. MicroWiki.org.uk, which I often see mentioned here so I'll use it as a comparative example, is 9th.
 * If you search for "micronation," MicroWiki is third and fourth, again after Wikipedia's two pages. There are then a few other sites you may have heard of (I haven't), but the .org.uk site isn't even on the first page.
 * If you type "micronations," MicroWiki dips a bit, but it still keeps the #4 spot. As with before, .org.uk is not on there.

So you all have a choice to make. You can stay on this wiki and be a leader in search engine results so people find you, or you can go elsewhere, have significantly less page views, and have it so people have a harder time finding you. The choice is yours.

I'll also post this on your latest blog.