Closed wikis

A closed wiki is a wiki which has been closed:
 * automatically by the software after the inactivity of 60 consecutive days;
 * by the local bureaucrats or those with the  right due to any reason;
 * by Stewards or the Miraheze staff if the wiki has violated the any of the global policies such as content policy, code of Conduct, etc.

Presently, Miraheze hosts wikis and periodically closes the inactive ones. Because Miraheze runs mainly on the donations, it has to close the wikis which are inoperative or have been forgotten by the users to save the sources used to host a wiki.

Closure due to inactivity
All wikis which are hosted on Miraheze are subject to global policies such as Dormancy policy which states that after the wiki falls inactive for 60 days, it will be closed and made available for the adoption, see adoption of closed wikis below. An inactivity notice is shown on the wiki after it has been inactive for 45 days and fifteen days later, if no activity is seen, it is closed.

Adoption of closed wikis
On Miraheze, Adoption is the process in which a closed wiki is opened again following the request of a user who is interested to contribute and manage the wiki. Any user can request the adoption of any wiki but the wikis which are closed manually by the local bureaucrats or local community and those closed by Stewards due to content policy and code of Conduct violations aren't eligible for adoption. The requests for adoption are made at Requests for Adoption page.

Procedure of adoption
Any user in good faith can request for the adoption of the closed wikis. A request will be made at Requests for adoption page where stewards handle the adoption requests. The request will be put on hold for a week and a steward will evaluate the request after that and will reopen the wiki. To gain bureaucrat and administrator rights on the wiki, you need to make a local election. If there are more than one user requesting the adoption of same wiki, stewards may either ask for the opinions of other stewards and global Miraheze functionaries to evaluate the request or open the wiki to let users contribute and then decide the outcome of the request based on the contributions of the users to the wiki.