A New Direction for the Wiki

You may have noticed that as part of my transition toward using FOSS software and unifying everything so it is not scattered across multiple platforms, my tech gijinka wiki has been moved to my own domain at wiki.themainframe.net.

There were several reasons for this decision, the main one being that it allows me to take more direct control over how the wiki is managed and maintained instead of continuing to rely on Miraheze for hosting.

Another reason is that I do not update the wiki very often, mainly due to a lack of motivation but also because I have been thinking more about the project’s long-term stability.

Miraheze.org is a wiki farm meaning it hosts many separate wikis on the same platform using MediaWiki’s default collaborative editing model. In practice, this means anyone can potentially edit a wiki unless pages and permissions are specifically restricted. While that approach works well for community-driven projects my wiki is intended more as a personal worldbuilding archive so I would rather have full control over moderation, backups, access permissions and overall administration.

Self-hosting also reduces concerns about inactivity policies or the possibility of the wiki being archived, closed or removed if I step away from it for a period of time. Even if updates slow down, the content would remain under my control rather than being subject to the rules and limitations of an external platform.

As useful as Miraheze is as a concept, the open-editing environment it encourages does not really align with what I want long-term for a personal project like this.

The final reason is that I would rather use the wiki for more than just my tech gijinka universe. While most people currently know it for that project, I would like to eventually expand and reorganise it so it can host other content as well which means I will end up renaming my tech gijinka universe.

This also ties into the overall history of the wiki itself which is part of why I want to overhaul it in general. I have liked tech gijinkas for a long time but when I originally created this wiki, it was not entirely for positive reasons. At the time it was made partly out of frustration and as a form of retaliation toward an old community that used to exist.

I know at least one friend reading this is probably thinking “Why are you telling everyone this?” but honestly, I feel like I should be open about why the project even exists in the first place. I used to update it fairly often until one day I just… stopped. As time went on, the wiki ended up sitting mostly dormant for quite a while until around 2025 or something when I brought it back. I can't remember 100 percent but I think it was cuase I asked if I should bring it back, and I was told yes until I fell back with the edits again. Was it worth asking if I should have brought it back? I don't know... feels like it was pointless asking.

At this point I am not really as interested in maintaining a traditional wiki as I once was. These days I find a lot more enjoyment in simply talking about my ideas with people who are interested rather than feeling like I have to document every single detail in a structured archive. Tech gijinkas are an even smaller niche in a small(?) niche of moe anthropomorphism so very little people know of it, or even care of it.

I don’t know why but I find it hard to explain that I’m not as interested in maintaining a wiki in the same structured way anymore without it sounding like I’m abandoning the project entirely. This is the best way I can put it and to anyone reading this, I hope you understand my reasoning and mindset.

I am still making tech gijinkas and continuing to develop ideas within that universe and that part of the project is not going away.

Going forward, the wiki will gradually be restructured to better reflect that shift. Instead of being focused on a single universe it will become a more flexible space for different projects, ideas and experiments as I refine how I want to use it. This is not me stepping away from the project but rather changing how I engage with it so it fits me better long-term.