I had a discussion about the paradoxian wikis
here, and it appears that the paradoxian will not open again in the forseeable future. Maybe Meneth can make the new paradox wiki block since you already linked the CK2 wiki and the EU4 wiki.
Main issue is that hosting costs a decent amount of money. I could potentially host one,
maybe two, more wikis before I run out of space on my current tier; after that cost goes up by a factor of 5 (though that would allow me to host about 15-20 wikis).
Currently I'm paying this per year, before VAT:
- 69 NOK x 2 for the domain registration
- 120 NOK for hosting
- 96 NOK to have eu4wiki.com point to eu4.ckiiwiki.com
For a total of 354 NOK. 442.5 NOK after tax. That's equivalent to about €60/year or $75/year. The ad on ckiiwiki.com bring in about $35/year. So once I've got an ad up on eu4wiki.com I'll hopefully be a bit closer to breaking even.
If I were to add two more domains however, my costs would be like this:
- 69 NOK x 4 for domain registration
- 540 NOK for hosting
- 96 NOK * 3 to point the other wikis to ckiiwiki.com
For a total of 1104 NOK before tax, and 1380 after. Equivalent to €180/year or $240/year. As you might understand, this is a cost I simply cannot justify currently.
If I manage to figure out a way to make the wikis share more resources I might able to extend things further than currently on the current hosting though, thus only needing about $35/year more for each domain. Alternatively it'd be possible to purchase more separate servers, which puts the cost at slightly under $40/year for each domain.
So it might be doable, but I don't see a good reason to do so when Paradoxian, despite registration being closed, has all the games except CKII and EU4 well covered.
I'm also considering experimenting with Google Ads rather than Project Wonderful on eu4wiki.com. If that brings in enough to break even then I could potentially expand to cover more games.
Edit: After disabling and cleaning out the temp files of some statistics programs I don't need, I now have a lot more room. I could probably fit about half a dozen wikis on the current server.
So hosting more wikis is definitely a possibility, as it will only cost about $35/year for each.