With Wikispaces closing soon, what happens to vamworld.com and indiancent wikispaces ?
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A message pops up on these sites that blog.wikispaces.com will be permanently closing down over the next few month. It ranges from the end of July to the end of next January.
Hope the info on these sites won't be permanently lost.
Anyone know where they might be going or if there are other coin-related wikis located there?
Page explaining "It's time for us to say farewell…" blog.wikispaces.com/
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It's time for us to say farewell…
Wikispaces was founded in 2005 and has since been used by educators, companies and individuals across the globe.
Unfortunately, the time has come where we have had to make the difficult business decision to end the Wikispaces service.
Why is Wikispaces closing?
Over the last twelve months we have been carrying out a complete technical review of the infrastructure and software we use to serve Wikispaces users. As part of the review, it has become apparent that the required investment to bring the infrastructure and code in line with modern standards is very substantial. We have explored all possible options for keeping Wikispaces running but have had to conclude that it is no longer viable to continue to run the service in the long term. So, it is with no small degree of nostalgia, that we will begin to close down later this year.
When is Wikispaces closing?
To enable us to offer maximum support to customers off-boarding from Wikispaces we will be undertaking a phased shutdown approach. This will help us regulate the system load on the export tool as users depart from Wikispaces
Scheduled Closure dates:
Classroom and Free Wikis end of service 31st July 2018
Plus and Super Wikis end of service 30th September 2018
Private Label Wikis end of service 31st January 2019
Further information
Users: If you are a member of a Classroom, Plus or Super Wiki, please contact your Wikispaces organiser directly. The organiser can be found in the "members" section.
If you are a user of a Private label or Campus site, please contact your site administrator directly.
Organisers: If you are the organiser of a Classroom (or Free) Wiki, please click for More Help
If you are an organiser of a pay monthly or annually Plus or Super plan Wiki, please visit your Site Organiser area for further details.
Administrators: If you are an administrator for a Private Label or Campus site, you should have already received an email from us. Please visit your Site Administration area for further details.
Thank you so much for your support over the years.
The Wikispaces team
Not a user myself but see a few friendly spots will be gone if the owners don't do something like find a new home.
I do not think I have come across this site before but its always sad when educational sites are lost. Just curious had these guys tried fundraising as an option? How has it been financially supported in the past.
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Seems like something one of the big commercial or non-profit hobby supporters might take on hosting of? Someone who already has a web infrastructure in place, and bandwidth to spare for something that is probably not used THAT heavily? (Hint, hint.....)
Not a user myself either. But more than once I've longed for an online attribution resource for OTHER coin types. (CoinFacts can sometimes be used...but it really isn't set up or intended for attribution, or comprehensive variety information.)
The ANA?
They were shut out by Google spaces, which is free. The Indian cent wikispace cost me $200 per year. I migrated everything over a few months ago.
I am worried for VAMworld, as I don't know what they are doing.
SSDC has a new site ready to go. Go to Vamworld look at left column below message board, buy sell trade you'll see New vamworld forums link. Its still a work in progress, but well on the way.
I'm a member but not on the board.
Member 'messydesk' has been working on this and has most of the replacement up and running. Maybe he'll chime in and update everyone.
Here is the new site for the Indian Cents:
Indian Cent Book
Here's the VamWorld test (?) message site.
http://vwtest.varslab.com/
The Indian Cent site was about 1,000 pages with as many images. It took a month to migrate everything and then I hit the "Publish" button and it didn't work. One mistake on one page made the whole thing not work. Had to then copy it over to this new site, making sure to "publish" every page as it was made.
We live in a world with built-in obsolescence now unfortunately. Going to have to go "old school" and go back to using books... or the village seer.