Conworlds:Patreon

 

The Constructed Worlds Wiki uses Patreon to source funding from its users to help pay for the costs of hosting the website. As a free-to-use service using copyleft, open source MediaWiki software, the Constructed Worlds Wiki is partly founded on an underlying principle of collaboration. Supporting the Constructed Worlds Wiki by subscribing to the Patreon is the best way to show your support for our community and our website.

Since September 2023, the price for subscription to the Patreon has been set at 4.20 USD, which is roughly equivalent to a little below 10% of the monthly hosting costs of the website. Conworlds is independently hosted on AWS; the price is non-trivial but the quality of service provided by AWS is well-worth the price. An average day of hosting costs varies from between 1.20 to 1.40 USD based on the percentage of the month that our website spends in the "Free Tier" of AWS service for CPU utilization and digital storage. To that extent, one Patreon subscriber pays for up to four whole days worth of Conworlds' presence per month. A full year of subscription is equivalent to helping pay the entire hosting costs of the website for a month!

Although Conworlds is not, nor ever will be, a "freemium" service, we want to offer our generous patrons the recognition they deserve. Subscription to the Patreon comes with three primary benefits:

1. The username of the patron is put on the Main Page of the website forever, even if they only subscribe for one month!
2. A subscribed patron can select any article from the wiki to promote on the Main Page on a monthly rotational basis.
3. A subscribed patron gets the Patron role on our community Discord server for added recognition.

List of patrons

1. Eviltoast05 – Provides a baseline budget of 50 CAD per month via direct payment to AWS since June 2023.
2. Centrist16 – Subscribed to the Patreon 2 September 2023; became Super Patron 23 November 2023.
3. Mythopoeia – Subscribed to the Patreon 2 September 2023.
4. Dawnstar – Subscribed to the Patreon 5 September 2023; became Super Patron 23 November 2023.
5. Solace – Subscribed to the Patreon 12 October 2023.
6. F0rsaken – Subscribed as Super Patron 23 November 2023.
7. EmperorAlexander99 – Subscribed as Super Patron 2 March 2024.
8. Yuutarou – Subscribed to the Patreon 24 March 2024.

Patron Article of the Month

Once it is their month to choose, patrons can promote any article from the wiki on the Main Page. The rotational list is first-come first-serve, but if a new subscriber to the Patreon is added on the last month of rotation, they still get to choose an article for the following month.

2023

• September: Tabulon by Litia von Lucerna, selected by Eviltoast05
• October: Vehicle registration plates of Kalșeri by DatMaster001, selected by Centrist16
• November: Brendan Shepard by Andy Irons, selected by Mythopoeia
• December: Choice of Dawnstar

2024

• January: Rock Saga Evolution by Solace, selected by Solace
• February: Greater Poland (Alternatively) by F0rsaken, selected by F0rsaken
• March: Choice of Dawnstar (granted by Fizzyflapjack)
• April: Choice of EmperorAlexander99
• May: List of political parties in Kalșeri by Symposium, selected by Yuutarou

See also

• Conworlds:Finances