Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8-20160419164432

Hi all,

This was originally on Monsake's wall. But as I've been reverted in removing the ads for the other wiki, it seems best to make sure everyone sees it. So this is an slightly edited version of that post:

It seems some from this wiki are moving on. I'm sorry to see you go.

That's allowed of course, the license we use on wikia specifically allows you to copy the content and go elsewhere. We call it "right to fork".

But there are two things you must do to keep within the license terms.

One is to give full attribution to all authors. You can do that by copying over the full page histories to your new wiki, or by putting a notice on each copied page to show where it came from.

Secondly you must not change the the license that the pages were written under. That means that you cannot say they are under a license other than the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC-by-sa). That's the license that everyone agrees to by using Wikia.

The last point I have to make is that it is not okay for you to use this wiki to advertise your own. That means no main page notice (I know it's been up a while, it has to come down now), no contacting people on their message walls, and no notices in the welcome messages or other templates. You have the right to move, but when you do so you no longer have the right to decide the future of this wikia

There will no doubt be a lot more to talk about as you move on and I work to help this wiki recover and grow a new community, but I think that's enough for now. 