Wiki.com closing down? Wikia offers to help

Posted by Angela Beesley on January 17, 2007 (Wiki, Wikia)

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Wikia is offering to host wiki.com communities at no charge and to provide support for users who wish to transition away from wiki.com.

A user of wiki.com (not wikia.com) has said in a comment at TechCrunch that he has received an email from John Gotts saying that all wikis on wiki.com will be removed this week. Though two different people have written to Wikia saying the same thing, I’ve been unable to confirm whether this is true. In case it is, Wikia is offering all wiki.com users a new home at Wikia.

See our new wiki at rescued.wikia.com for options, details on how Wikia is different from wiki.com and information for wiki.com users on how to move to Wikia.

If you are a user of wiki.com, we would love to help you find a new home. Visit “moving to Wikia”.

Update: Mindtouch have confirmed that Wiki.com will shut down within a week but the content of these sites will be made available on a new domain in future. See the Message from Mindtouch on the rescued wiki.

2 Comments

  1. AaronF said,

    January 18, 2007 at 19:15

    Greetings All,

    As many of you have likely heard, Wiki.com is shutting down by January 25, 2007. If you are one of the thousands of users who registered a Wiki.com site have no fear. Your content is safe. You will be receiving an email shortly from MindTouch regarding this issue. The gist of this follows. John Gotts, the owner of Wiki.com, has agreed to transfer all wiki sites to MindTouch. The agreement does not include the Wiki.com domain. We at MindTouch have already begun migrating the wikis to new servers. Your ability to preserve your content is very important to MindTouch. We too were concerned and are very glad Gotts has kindly allowed this transfer. We agreed to this transfer with such short notice because our technology powered Wiki.com from the beginning and we are intimately familiar with the backend. That’s why we are confident we can restore the site in time and make improvements to it over time. Our most immediate concern is, of course, preserving what you have created. We’ll be providing additional details shortly on the new domain, features, and services. MindTouch will take care of you and your community.

    Aaron Fulkerson

    Free Knowledge.

  2. WikiAngela » wiki.com returns said,

    March 12, 2007 at 22:41

    […] $3 million domain Wiki.com is back. It closed down in January and the wikis hosted there were rescued by Wikia, migrated to Mindtouch’s new wik.is site, or […]