User blog comment:ToastUltimatum/Wiki Independence/@comment-1011118-20120522135540/@comment-4700688-20120522170506

Now I don't fully know all of this, but I've been asking some people, and it might be more simple than I expected.

I have to use my other main wiki as an example here; SmashWiki. SmashWiki was once part of Wikia (SmashWikia still trunges on to this day, alas), but when we were moving, we enlisted a company called Porplemontage.

http://www.porplemontage.com/

The way I've heard it, Porplemontage did all of the moving for us, even transferring page history somehow. And I don't believe they charged either. This is because Porplemontage would become the owner of the wiki, and if they put ads on our site, that's how they makes money, rather than charging us for them moving the site.

And don't get scared about the word advertisements. With an exception given to Super Mario Wiki (which is massive, so I don't blame them) there's only a couple ads when you're not logged in, and none whatsoever when you are logged in. Even SmashWiki and Halopedia (another site owned by Porplemontage), which are both pretty big, follow this advertising rule.

Point is, it sounds like we don't have to do anything, nor will it cost us anything. We just have to let them be the owner of the site, and they do a very good job of that role.

Porplemontage.com claims to specialise in video game wikis, so we wouldn't necessarily be using Porplemontage.com, but that's just an example which I know about.