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Spanking Art:New host
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After the boy scout controversy in January 2008, the Spanking Art wiki was shut down by its old host Wikia on 26 January 2008 and has moved to a new host in February 2008. The new host is Anime OTK, one of the web's biggest and most active free spanking art sites. The persons who kindly offered to host our wiki are User:Stoner (see also Stoner) and User:Ai (see also Ai).
The wiki remains hosted in the United States, so U.S. law still applies. However on our new host's request we will also take some aspects of U.K. law into account from now on. See "policy changes" below.
One or two things are technically different from Wikia, but these are just minor details.
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[edit] Logins and usernames
Wikia has helped transferring all content to the new host, including the complete revision history of the wiki in all namespaces. The legal requirements of the GFDL are thus met. All 141 users who have ever contributed to the Spanking Art wiki before the move can continue to use their old username and password.
Note: If you want other users to be able to send you an e-mail, you have to re-enter your e-mail address in your preferences because this data was not transferred for privacy reasons. The same applies to your real name if you want to enter it in your preferences. Any of these data are fully optional.
[edit] Policy changes
On the request of our new host, we have made changes to our wiki's policies, in particular our Image use policy. The idea is to protect our wiki better from potential attacks of outside critics, so they can't threaten our hosts or our users with legal action. Our hosts, by the way, are not responsible for the content: any content on this wiki is the responsibility of the person who uploaded it or added it to a wiki page, see also our Legal terms.
Our wiki never contained any illegal or doubtful content. We've always made sure to be fully on the "safe side", e.g. by following a strict no-pornography policy and requiring a GDFL-compliant license for all images uploaded. Additionally, we've had certain self-censorship before, e.g. by not allowing copyrighted images under fair use claim. This self-censorship has been extended in several areas to be on a "safer than safe" side. We realize this is a considerable constriction especially for a wiki on spanking art, because there is a lot of perfectly legal images which we now can no longer use here, such as photos of minors. In the interest of education (this is a serious encyclopedic project and not a "fun wiki", after all, and any censorship hampers to some degree our academic mission), free knowledge, free speech and free artistic expression, we try to keep this self-censorship as limited as possible.
As always, any of our policies can be discussed on the respective discussion pages.
[edit] Technical issues
[edit] Other agreements
- Anime OTK may display a popup message to users once per browser session. This popup is used to warn users who may have unintentionally browsed onto the site that it contains adult themes and content. The popup is dhtml and displayed within the window. It will be seen once every browser session.
- Anime OTK may display banner and text advertisements on this wiki. The income from these ads will be used to pay for the costs of hosting the site. Such ads may be displayed either on the bottom or the side of the content window, where they interfere as little as possible with using the wiki, similar to the ads at Wikia.
