Talk:Suggestion/@comment-25494824-20150405222128/@comment-1820055-20150406031537

Reikyu wrote:

That left sidebar is sorely missed and recent wiki activity and live chat box wouldn't eat up 25% of the page either. Akh101 wrote:

the background may need some work but that be in due time or that limit of the new site The theme that the new wiki uses is MonoBook, this is a common theme across all MediaWikis, you can see it on this wikia as well.

I'd like to note that this will NOT be the one we'll officially use on the new wiki. Unfortunately, we cannot re-use our current Wikia theme, so someone will have to design a new theme. But definitely, we're not gonna use monobook. I don't like it. Unless you the whole community wants that?

Reikyu wrote:

Are all the other admins and coders onboard with the move because I would imagine there would be a lot of work to be done? Most of my concern was mainly of network load, servers, and some other maintenance concerns. Also, I've told them I still need a bit of convincing on that subject.

But other than that the ability to work PHP on wikia and the possibility of creating MediaWiki extensions has been pulling me hard onto this.

Reikyu wrote:

Are you allowed to just copy all the content from a wiki into your own wiki? Wikia is CC-BY-SA (attribution, share-alike). In short, the license says you are free to copy, edit content as long as you give credit to sources and distribute with the same licensing.

''To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users editing or otherwise contributing to wikias that use the CC BY-SA license agree to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely for any purpose, including commercial use, in accordance with the CC BY-SA license. Such use is allowed where attribution is given and the same freedom to re-use and re-distribute applies to any derivative works of the contributions.''