User blog comment:Godisme/Wikia Alternatives/@comment-1268838-20101001061843/@comment-28861328-20101002034021

I just talked to Shout Wiki and here's what they're saying to me (that's if you're moving to Shout). First of all, you'll have to email them your request and they'll give you more detailed instruction, but most of the work should be Shout's. They told me they'd bascially be copying our wiki, as it is, over to the new Shout destination and we could just pick up our activity from there. But to do so we have to use Bugzilla. Here, let me give you what they told me and you can go for that. "''You can email ShoutWiki's technical team at technical@shoutwiki.com directly, or better yet, file a bug at our Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.shoutwiki.com/) to have the technical team import the wiki for you. Unfortunately you will need to register a separate Bugzilla account, but that should be only a minor nuisance. Once you have registered, choose "Enter a new bug", select "ShoutWiki" and choose "Imports" as the component; enter necessary info, such as the URL of the Wikia wiki and the ShoutWiki wiki on the description field, give the request a good summary (like "Import foo.wikia.com to ShoutWiki" or something like that) and press the "Commit" button once you're done. Our technical team will deal with the import from that point on.

If you need any futher help, don't hesitate to ask -- I know from personal experience that using Bugzilla isn't that easy. ;-)

Thanks and regards...''"

My community is still kicking this issue around and I've been testing the new look on our site and I must say, it's like you said Godisme, other than content space (which is irritating me to no end) this new look won't be as damaging to us; so honestly it's going to be up to my community whether or not we move, but I'll tell you this; the users there have never been good with change. I've known the veteran users there for over 2 years and I just don't see us moving unless this new look is completely devastating. I'll fill you in more as I get more info, as promised, but honestly I don't know. I wish Wikia would stop rushing this and give us some dang time to figure this all out.