The BIONICLE Wiki:Move From Wikia

Recently, The administrators of both BIONICLEpedia and the administrators of Custom BIONICLE Wiki have decided that we might want to move off the Wikia platform.

For more information, please click here (credit to Toa Auserv for writing it from a balanced point of view).

Both BP and CB wikis will be moved to a paid hosting platform if the community votes for.

To vote, please go here (you have  February 4 2009 00:00 UTC  to vote).

The meeting decided that if the community votes yes, then we will move.

More info on other things passed during the meeting can be read here.

The timeline will go like this: ~New Host~ ~Wikia~
 * Community voting begins
 * Meeting
 * Community voting for CBW ends
 * Community Voting for BP ends
 * Contact Wikia
 * Lock DB
 * Export DB
 * Export Images
 * Lock DB & Disable registration
 * Import DB
 * Import Images
 * Implement fixes
 * Test
 * Unlock DB & Enable registration
 * Turn this site into a wiki about set info, and link to both BS01 and the new B-pedia for storyline information.
 * Complete!

Note that you will have to re-register seeing as Wikia will not hand over the user database, but your username will be protected until you register it (You have to register it with the same password as your Wikia password, to make sure you're the real you).

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Panaka lego  (BP Ad min) and the Bioniclepedia administration.

Is it possible for the CBW to move to a new server, but Bioniclepedia to remain here? In other words, will we be able to vote that way? Masketh-Kahn (talk/Contributions) 02:30, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, we have been invited to go with CBW, but if they leave, why would we want to stay? Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 06:38, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I suggest you link to ToaAuserv's blog post.(The Oracle23-it appears my sig image is broken at the time of this posting) http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/custombionicle/images//6/6b/TheOracle_Sig.png 00:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do, and your sig looks fine to me. Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 07:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Having it on another website is fine with me,a s long as the layout and pages are able to be edited and pages are easy to acess. But I'm going to vote no. --Torongo 03:23, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It will be almost exactly the same, as far as pages go. Why vote no?
 * BTW: I'm really geting fed up with the ads now, especially the new green links... Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 03:41, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What green links are you talking about? - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 20:01, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm getting some green links, like ads, when you scroll over the word, it shows a mini-window about some product barley related to the word. But it might just be the computer I'm using, I never noticed 'em last night. Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 20:03, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

The Vote
It was just put up. Let's extend the time to vote. - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 01:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Done, I've added four days, that should be enough. Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 03:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

The Meeting
It's coming up soon. I'm thinking we should get an order of events to keep things running smoothly. Anybody who's been to a BP meeting knows how crazy it can get. So I was thinking something like this...
 * Preliminary Vote
 * Present Arguments
 * Majority Opinion Presented
 * Minority Opinion Presented


 * Questions
 * Questions to the Majority View
 * Questions to the Minority View


 * Any unfinished business
 * Jokes

I'm thinking saying that Panakalego be spokesperson of the Leaving group, Me being spokesperson of the Staying group, and Auserv be moderator. Ultimately, we can't get away from the fact that one side's gonna get the last word, and I think it's fairer to let the minority view get it, regardless of what that view was (note that I was thinking about this before the vote started, so whichever view is behind didn't come into play). But this is just a rough draft. Am I missing anything important? - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 17:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Amendment:


 * Preliminary Vote
 * Present Arguments
 * Majority Opinion Presented
 * Minority Opinion Presented


 * Questions
 * Questions to the Majority View
 * Questions to the Minority View

IF Yes (move):
 * Any unfinished business
 * Jokes
 * Extensions (vote)
 * Proposed Meta-Wiki (vote)
 * Third Staff member? (vote)
 * Jokes (2)
 * http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/custombionicle/images//6/6b/TheOracle_Sig.png 17:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Only problem with your added part being that since BP got our vote up a lot later than CBW did, we've still got a couple days of voting left, so this discussion isn't going to definitively decide whether or not we're going. What's Third Staff Member? - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 17:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll explain at the meeting. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/custombionicle/images//6/6b/TheOracle_Sig.png 17:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This vote has six hours left... Panaka  lego  (BP Ad min) 17:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

A comment from Wikia
I've just heard that some are thinking of moving away from Wikia. I didn't get a chance to talk to you about it before you voted, but I hope I can catch up a bit now.

From what I've read the main concerns are ads, spotlights and lack of access to the wiki controls.

We do have to be careful about what controls are made publicly accessible. Admins can already make a lot of changes to the wiki already but our main goal is to make sure that the wiki and the users are safe. Logging in to Wikia hides your IP address and gives you more control over who can see that information. For most home users, an IP doesn't give that much away (usually a general location, and the name of the company that provides your Internet service). But for some users, however, it can reveal more... for example the name of your school, college or workplace. Checkuser exposes this information, so giving it out to non-staff concerns us. Regardless, you can always contact Wikia staff any time you need assistance with a dilemma that requires the use of checkuser.

Regarding ads -- these are sent to us from various ad networks. We have settings on each that reject any problem ads (explicit, noisy and so on) but bad ones still get through. We are working on improving the filtering, and you can mail us using the Special:Contact form to report any problem ads. With enough information, we can identify the provider and stop the ad from being served.

We do filter our internal ads (the spotlights), which is why you didn't see the "Kenny" spotlight on this wiki. We should have considered the audience a bit more when we put these particular wrestling spotlights on a wiki about toys. Thanks for your feedback! We've removed the wrestling spotlights from all toy wikis.

If there are other concerns, I'd love to have the chance to discuss them with you. I hope you will stay with us here at Wikia. -- sannse (talk) 21:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear that the spotlights have been filtered. Unfortunately, our decision has already been made and it would be up to Panakalego to ultimately reject the move. And he's been a strong supporter of it, so I doubt that would happen. However, the plan is to have someone from another Bionicle wiki to take over this version of Bioniclepedia and change it from focusing on the Bionicle story to focus entirely on the Bionicle toys. So essentially we will be staying here, but changing the wiki's focus and exporting the old wiki to a new domain. And I know several of our members plan to stay here and continue editing the Wikia Bionicle wiki (which will probably be renamed to Bionicle Sector 02, knowing the guy who's taking over it). ToaAuserv ? ...BPAdmin 22:15, 4 February 2009 (UTC)