The near-collapse of Miraheze

Miraheze is a non-profit wiki hosting service that was founded in July 2015 by a group of volunteers and cofounders Southparkfan and John. However, due to recent events and mass resignations, there was once a possibility that Miraheze will shut down at the end of August 2023, though many volunteers have stepped forward to save the project.

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.

Announcement of shutdown
Due to the situation, which quickly grew into chaos, many board members burned out and wanted to resign as well as several notable members; on June 15, 2023, Void, another board director, announced that Miraheze would stop processing wiki requests 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.

Future of Miraheze
On June 18, 2023, Labster created a page on Meta Miraheze saying that Miraheze will not shut down and they found a plan to save Miraheze by creating a new organization and reducing stress for the volunteers.