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This dissatisfaction grew up to the release of a new 'Oasis' skin by Wikia. This skin brought a narrow content area, moved many functions to unusable places, and reduced the wiki's individual branding and navigation to being secondary to Wikia's large visible header. This skin was introduced alongside new terms of use, which prevented any adjustments to the skin's design apart from some colours and a background image. Despite a large amount of feedback being given by beta testers, wiki administrators and regular users, Wikia are forging ahead and making the Oasis skin mandatory. | This dissatisfaction grew up to the release of a new 'Oasis' skin by Wikia. This skin brought a narrow content area, moved many functions to unusable places, and reduced the wiki's individual branding and navigation to being secondary to Wikia's large visible header. This skin was introduced alongside new terms of use, which prevented any adjustments to the skin's design apart from some colours and a background image. Despite a large amount of feedback being given by beta testers, wiki administrators and regular users, Wikia are forging ahead and making the Oasis skin mandatory. | ||
Due to Wikia's ongoing interference and lack of respect towards this wiki's community, a discussion was held on whether to leave Wikia as the host of Grand Theft Wiki. After discussion, it was agreed by the participating community and all of Grand Theft Wiki's staff to move, and Grand Theft Wiki changed host and moved to | Due to Wikia's ongoing interference and lack of respect towards this wiki's community, a discussion was held on whether to leave Wikia as the host of Grand Theft Wiki. After discussion, it was agreed by the participating community and all of Grand Theft Wiki's staff to move, and Grand Theft Wiki changed host and moved to [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com GrandTheftWiki.com]. | ||
As a user, you have a choice whether to join the Grand Theft Wiki community at, or to stay at Wikia and edit this copy. | Discussions were held on Wikia's copy of the site. Some administrators wanted to run this as a GTA modding wiki, in a mutually-beneficial partnership with the moved Grand Theft Wiki; but Wikia refused and chose to run a copy of the wiki here, in competition with the departed Grand Theft Wiki community. | ||
As a user, you have a choice whether to join the Grand Theft Wiki community at [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com GrandTheftWiki.com], or to stay at Wikia and edit this copy. | |||
The original proposal for the move is below, and the extensive discussion is on [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|the talk page]]. Please read this through and make your own choice about where you choose to edit. | The original proposal for the move is below, and the extensive discussion is on [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|the talk page]]. Please read this through and make your own choice about where you choose to edit. | ||
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If we moved away, Wikia would '''not''' close gta.wikia.com. This means that the site would fork into two copies: | If we moved away, Wikia would '''not''' close gta.wikia.com. This means that the site would fork into two copies: | ||
*This copy staying on Wikia, operated as a competitor to our site (gta.wikia.com) | *This copy staying on Wikia, operated as a competitor to our site (gta.wikia.com) | ||
*One copy operated by this community elsewhere | *One copy operated by this community elsewhere (grandtheftwiki.com) | ||
This means that most visitors (from Google etc) would continue to use gta.wikia.com after we move, singificantly reducing our traffic. We could post redirect messages across this wiki, but Wikia would likely remove them. So we would require the community to work together to make sure everyone went to our new site, not here. We also need to make sure that as many users as possible come with us, rather than staying here. | This means that most visitors (from Google etc) would continue to use gta.wikia.com after we move, singificantly reducing our traffic. We could post redirect messages across this wiki, but Wikia would likely remove them. So we would require the community to work together to make sure everyone went to our new site, not here. We also need to make sure that as many users as possible come with us, rather than staying here. | ||