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©YellowFrogger. This username comes from the word "frog". That is, it means toad/frog of yellow color. I use Ping and I don't like to ignore others (Feel free to post a message on my talk page). I was planning to become a user who usually answers on SN and CN, but people tend to send difficult/technical questions/help there, so I always leave it to a steward, I answer normally when I know I'm helping (or no).

I currently manage the "Ônibus Wiki" wiki (not English). There we have 1,000 articles and about 48,000 edits (at the time of writing). It's an average number, but it's far from being one of the biggest Miraheze wikis.

I also translate many pages on Meta. This explains my large number of edits (30% main, 60% translation). I translate because there is so much incomplete.

I met Miraheze in October 2020 through this MediaWiki page, when I would try to find a well-differentiated wiki farm. I read it one by one until I found it. In my opinion, Miraheze is a very good, cool, responsive, volunteer-driven wiki farm, but of course, there is still a lot to improve, a lot. Visit this link and learn more.

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Points
I've put together a list below of the positives and negatives, based on opinion.

Positive points

 * Miraheze runs the latest version of MediaWiki. Not recent to the point of Wikipedia, but updates a lot (sometimes up to 5 months for a new version to come out);
 * The only wiki farm that has no ads at all; and earn money only from donations. All other farm wikis place various advertisements on their hosted wikis;
 * Loads multiple extensions accept new ones (by phabricator);
 * You are free to choose from various themes, including the Vector;
 * Little bureaucracy from admins/stewards, and accepts some types of content, unlike other farms;
 * You are free to make various CSS changes to your wiki;
 * Users are not censored. Anyone can give their opinion - of course, without going overboard.

Negative points

 * Very slow server (just awful, unfortunately) the Miraheze servers. And, it usually happens when you go to save an edit, at the risk of losing them!;
 * You have to request a wiki, not create it yourself. When you ask, you have to wait for a Wiki Creator to create (that's when it accepts the request). Usually the first time around, we have no idea how the site works, so when we ask and it's turned down, we don't even know what happened;
 * Stewards usually carry a lot of conversation, rather than quickly solving the problem. Of course they do volunteer work, so we can't judge too much!