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35 points·Sam_Odio··4 comments

You might remember BluWiki from an Apple censorship lawsuit a few months back. More info: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/apple-backs-down-blu

Of my web projects, BluWiki is Divvyshot's ugly sister. The site has always been much larger but has received a fraction of the attention. This would be a great move if you're looking for an instant source of traffic.

The auction isn't all that clear in some aspects...

1) What's being sold? The domain and content or the whole server/setup?

2) What's the current monthly costs like?

Everything you need to achieve massive wiki success (domain, similar domains, wiki, slicehost account, etc) is included.

Another note: I was just told that our pagerank fell from 5/10 to 0. Probably happened a few months ago from wiki spam that we've been strugling with. If you implement a captcha you can might convince google to restore the PR.

It's funny. I used to help out with the PackRat (Alamofire's Facebook game that came before Gowalla) Bluwiki site: http://packrat.bluwiki.com/ But due to some heavy-handed community leadership I ended up creating my own: http://packratwiki.com/ I'm not really involved with the operations of either (and don't play the game anymore), but I think I emailed you at some point or talked to you via your Talk page.

I might end up snatching this up out of nostalgia. Could definitely be more monetized (look at Wikia for an extreme example), but I'd be more interested in the community-building aspects of it. Is Nathan Richards going to stay involved after the sale? That wasn't clear.

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