As many of you know, a while back Sam and Errin had to move the Mage Wiki over from wikispaces to wikia. This was due to the fact that wikispaces decided to get rid of their free (non-educational) accounts.
However, I do actually have a paid wikispaces account. So my question for you guys is: which Wiki host would you prefer to use? There are benefits and drawbacks for each. I personally find wikispaces easier to use, but it has a few annoying quirks/bugs. My primary reason for preferring it has more to do with the fact that it a: doesn't have any ads and b: doesn't send me heaping gobs of spam. But of course, these issues are fairly easy to combat with adblock+ and a spam filter. Wikia has the bonus of functioning a little more like a proper wiki, and the text on the page tends to look a bit cleaner. I had a much more difficult time formatting it the way I wanted, but that may be a sign that I was looking for something a bit more like a regular web page (and I'm sure it'll be easier if I make an effort to figure out wikia's coding.)
In any case, I don't want to force my hosting preferences on you guys, so I figured I'd find out what everyone likes best and go from there. Basically the issue at hand is: did you prefer the old wiki or do you like the new one?
(I should note that I know Sam and Errin went to a great amount of work to transfer everything over, so regardless of how we vote, I'm not going to delete the Wikia. It's just a matter of whether I'll continue updating it.)
However, I do actually have a paid wikispaces account. So my question for you guys is: which Wiki host would you prefer to use? There are benefits and drawbacks for each. I personally find wikispaces easier to use, but it has a few annoying quirks/bugs. My primary reason for preferring it has more to do with the fact that it a: doesn't have any ads and b: doesn't send me heaping gobs of spam. But of course, these issues are fairly easy to combat with adblock+ and a spam filter. Wikia has the bonus of functioning a little more like a proper wiki, and the text on the page tends to look a bit cleaner. I had a much more difficult time formatting it the way I wanted, but that may be a sign that I was looking for something a bit more like a regular web page (and I'm sure it'll be easier if I make an effort to figure out wikia's coding.)
In any case, I don't want to force my hosting preferences on you guys, so I figured I'd find out what everyone likes best and go from there. Basically the issue at hand is: did you prefer the old wiki or do you like the new one?
(I should note that I know Sam and Errin went to a great amount of work to transfer everything over, so regardless of how we vote, I'm not going to delete the Wikia. It's just a matter of whether I'll continue updating it.)
