User blog comment:Gardimuer/Say goodbye to "User talk" pages/@comment-939754-20110927071143/@comment-1401334-20110927073023

I don't know of any wiki hosting sites that are as stable as Wikia. When the Oasis/Wikia skin came out, many wiki communities moved to ShoutWiki, but I've recently heard from other editors that it is not a dependable wiki farm and is down more often than it is up. Some successful wikis (such as Wowwiki, now Wowpedia) managed to find their own independent hosting without a wikifarm to support them.

However, even if we did start up a new BioShock Wiki at a different site, the old one on Wikia would still remain, and it would be a competitor preventing visitors from finding our new site. As Wikia staff members have said, anyone is free to leave Wikia and set up shop elsewhere, but we cannot remove content from a wiki that already exists. Wikia staff would ban anyone who tried.

With all that in mind, and with community activity at an all time low between game releases, we cannot afford to lose contributors in a fork.