RLWiki:RLWiki NEO
Codenamed RLWiki NEO, the Rolling Lounge Wiki is migrating from Miraheze to Rolling Lounge's own website.
Reasons for the migration
Bigger reasons
Slow performance
Miraheze is a large wikifarm that hosts over 8800 wikis[1] and understandably so, needs the adequate processing power. While it is a wonderful project and the ones powering deserve all the credit they get, it does load relatively slowly.
Self-hosting the wiki allows for the server to concentrate on putting the appropriate processing power on the wiki, which has faster load times.
Dormancy policy
Miraheze has a dormancy policy in which a wiki can get closed down or even deleted if it's inactive for too long.[2] While this is an understandable process from Miraheze's sides, the RL Wiki is not guaranteed to have sufficient activity to avoid the process - in fact, the 60-day threshold has been reached multiple times already.
As there is no such policy when self-hosting the wiki, there is no need to worry about the data getting deleted due to inactivity.
Smaller reasons
Full autonomy
While Miraheze does grant a lot of autonomy already, it's not complete.
For example, its extension list is a predefined set of extensions which are sufficient for most usecases, but adding any extension not included in the list would require requesting it.[3]
Self-hosting gives us full autonomy of every single aspect over the wiki without being bound to anyone else.
More personalized domain
Since the rollinglounge.net domain is in our ownership, we're able to use a more personalized domain: wiki.rollinglounge.net