Site name change

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Austenasia·10/22/2018 in Staff announcements

Myself and other admins have decided that the time has come for a decision to be made in regards to the name of the site.

The official name of this website is "MicroWiki", but as you all know there has often been confusion and even conflict due to there being another, larger website of the same name, and so most of the micronational community refer to this site as "MicroWikia".

I would also like to inform those who are unaware that Wikia are in the process of renaming themselves to FANDOM and early next year ".wikia" will no longer be in the website's URL.

I therefore propose that the official name of this website be changed from MicroWiki to MicroNations Fandom.

This new name has already been on the Main Page for some weeks now, and we even have a snazzy new logo up. All we need is community support to show to Wikia/Fandom so they can change the name completely.

This vote will be up for one week.

(Edited by Austenasia)

Eno of Laurencia·10/23/2018

PresidentHill wrote:
We aren't a fandom, therefore I don't support the name change.
However, I do support a name change. Perhaps just Micronations Wiki would be fine?

I agree with Hill.

(Edited by Eno of Laurencia)

Rooztr·10/23/2018

This is not a wiki page for Fandoms, but rather real micronations around the globe. I do not support including "Fandoms" in the title, and may leave the site for Microwiki if these changes to belittle our legitimacy continue.

(Edited by Rooztr)

Eno of Laurencia·10/23/2018

Rooztr wrote:
This is not a wiki page for Fandoms, but rather real micronations around the globe. I do not support including "Fandoms" in the title, and may leave the site for Microwiki if these changes to belittle our legitimacy continue.

While I will not leave this wiki, I certainly agree that this belittles our legitimacy.

(Edited by Eno of Laurencia)

Sabovia·10/23/2018

Support.

As much as it pains me, the name "MicroWiki[a]" won't make sense once the change commences, unless Wikia can assure us that we can keep the .wikia.com domain, which is highly unlikely given past precedents.

(Edited by Sabovia)

Austenasia·10/23/2018

We shan't be keeping the wikia.com domain. Putting it in the URL will still redirect to this site, but it will change to fandom.com and that's not something we can really do anything about.

In response to President Hill and Rooztr, "MicroNations Fandom" should be interpreted as "MicroNations [at] Fandom", as in, we are based on the Fandom (formerly Wikia) wiki host. It's not saying the community is just a "fandom for micronations". All the other wikis hosted by Wikia are likewise being changed to the Fandom brand.

(Edited by Austenasia)

Deutschlandkaiser·10/24/2018

Austenasia wrote:
We shan't be keeping the wikia.com domain. Putting it in the URL will still redirect to this site, but it will change to fandom.com and that's not something we can really do anything about.
In response to President Hill and Rooztr, "MicroNations Fandom" should be interpreted as "MicroNations [at] Fandom", as in, we are based on the Fandom (formerly Wikia) wiki host. It's not saying the community is just a "fandom for micronations". All the other wikis hosted by Wikia are likewise being changed to the Fandom brand.

I support this name change.

(Edited by Deutschlandkaiser)

LurkSAR·10/24/2018

I am not too fond of this, but seeing that we have little to no choice but get used to it. The sooner the better.

Support.

(Edited by LurkSAR)

Deutschlandkaiser·10/25/2018

LurkSAR wrote:
I am not too fond of this, but seeing that we have little to no choice but get used to it. The sooner the better.
Support.

Remember all the changes we've seen Wikia go through, less and less freedom as the days go by...

(Edited by Deutschlandkaiser)

Grand Duke of Alimia·10/26/2018

support but the fandom part is kinda ehh

(Edited by Grand Duke of Alimia)

Austenasia·10/29/2018

The vote has now concluded. After a week of voting, eight votes have been cast in support and two in opposition.

With the support of the userbase, the name of the site will therefore be changed from MicroWiki to MicroNations Fandom, and FANDOM have been contacted to make the change official.

Thank you all for taking part in this important decision!

(Edited by Austenasia)