The near-collapse of Miraheze

Miraheze is a non-profit wiki hosting service that was founded in July 2015 by two volunteers from a previous wiki farm named Orain, Southparkfan and John. However, due to events and mass resignations beginning in March 2023, there was a possibility that Miraheze would shut down at the end of August 2023, though a plan has since been made to save it.

Background
The situation Miraheze is in mostly involves a single user: Naleksuh. Naleksuh joined Miraheze on November 21, 2019, and eventually became infamous in the community for their hostile behavior towards other users, leading to their ban by the global community.

IRC group contact incident
On March 17, 2023, during IRC group contact elections (group contacts are people trusted by the community to manage cloaks and namespaces on the Miraheze IRC server), one of Miraheze's co-founders, John, left a message inquiring about jokes that poked fun at Naleksuh made in a private IRC channel used by high-ranking Miraheze volunteers; in response to this, there was major community backlash, and John eventually resigned. Universal Omega/CosmicAlpha, a former Miraheze Limited board director, resigned from SRE to focus on rebuilding the community's trust after the incident.

Trust and Safety ban of Raidarr
Raidarr joined Miraheze on June 22, 2021, to start a wiki about the MechWarrior franchise, which ended up failing due to a lack of commitment. Afterward, he took up Miraheze volunteer positions, advancing fairly quickly to Stewardship in February 2022. He resigned in August 2022 due to upcoming real-life circumstances, though he became a Steward again in April 2023. On June 4, 2023, Owen, the Director of Trust and Safety at the time, sent Raidarr a "relatively important" email; Raidarr later resigned as Steward, citing "unresolvable disagreements with the operation of Miraheze". Two days later, after participating in a conversation in the Miraheze Discord server about Naleksuh's actions on Miraheze, Raidarr was T&S banned by Owen. This resulted in major community backlash, and several in the community demanded an explanation for Raidarr's ban. Owen later clarified that Raidarr had been put under several T&S restrictions, stating that he'd violated two of those; many in the community disagreed, claiming that Raidarr had violated only one. Afterward, several high-ranking volunteers (including Universal Omega ) lost faith in Miraheze and resigned; there was talk of Miraheze collapsing in the near future.

Announcement of shutdown
Due to the situation quickly spiraling into chaos, many burned out and wanted to resign, including the remaining board directors; on June 15, 2023, Void, another board director, announced that Miraheze would stop processing wiki requests immediately and cease operations on August 31st. However, due to an outpouring of community support, Void announced that there would be a transfer to the new technical volunteers if there was a sufficient amount of them by the end of August.

New organization and cancellation of shutdown
On June 18, 2023, Labster announced on Miraheze Meta the dissolution of Miraheze Limited (a British nonprofit incorporated in 2019 to govern Miraheze) and the incorporation of a new company in the United States; wiki creation resumed a few days later. On July 13, 2023, Zppix updated the announcement to state that the new company, named the Miraheze Foundation, had been incorporated in Illinois and that the process of officially transferring Miraheze Limited's assets to the new foundation had begun.