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Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

For some background, the old wiki was hosted on Fandom. All the major volunteer contributors are moving to minecraft.wiki, but the old page will almost certainly stay up, frozen in time, throwing trackers and ads on kids not savvy enough to locate the new link.

It is interesting to me how many games, Minecraft in particular, rely on wikis - they're very different experiences, sometimes almost unplayable, if you don't read up on how to make progress.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by rob74 »

I wish more wikis would take this step - Fandom (ex-Wikia) has become so ad-infested that I honestly avoid looking up stuff there as much as possible (which is a shame, because lots of fans put a lot of work into building those wikis).

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by sebsebmc »

The Path of Exile wiki made a similar move a few years ago. Fandom was such a limitation for the community and the ads and page speed were awful. Now the Minecraft wiki will have to spend effort beating the Fandom site on SEO so that people get directed to the actually updated wiki. For Path of Exile there was a browser extension that would hide the Fandom from search results and redirect you to the new community wiki.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by some_random »

Fantastic, I'm really interested in how it goes since the fandom wiki might be the single largest fan wiki project I've ever seen. I'd be surprised if they ever hit parity, but assuming people don't keep updating fandom (why would they?) then it'll be _the_ resource in no time at all.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by Svip »

I still maintain an independent Futurama wiki from Fandom. Back when they were called Wikia, they wanted to merge with our wiki, but I insisted on a no ads policy. So talks basically went nowhere. They still have a Futurama wiki, and ours is still online. Though, these days, it's mostly other editors filling in the content, I am just a system administrator at this point.

I am still happy with our decision, because Wikia/Fandom has since then just gotten worse.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by tedivm »

msp26 wrote: post #60

Excellent. I hope to see more games following suit away from the bloated messes of fandom/fextralife. At times they feel unusable on mobile. And I don't think a single user has wanted to see the embedded twitch streams when they're just trying to get some information quickly.

Terraria moved their wiki and it's a much nice experience.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by bakugo »

msp26 wrote: post #60

Excellent. I hope to see more games following suit away from the bloated messes of fandom/fextralife. At times they feel unusable on mobile. And I don't think a single user has wanted to see the embedded twitch streams when they're just trying to get some information quickly.

> And I don't think a single user has wanted to see the embedded twitch streams when they're just trying to get some information quickly.

The embedded Twitch stream is there purely as a way to artificially boost viewer counts on their channel. Almost every time a new game comes out, you can go to its Twitch page and see Fextralife at the top with tens of thousands of viewers, with a dead chat because almost nobody is actually watching, it's all from the embed. Twitch-endorsed pseudo-viewbotting to farm ad revenue is a growing trend, there's even several systems on Twitch itself that encourage it, like the drops system.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by subtra3t »

matthews2 wrote: post #16

The RuneScape Wiki and OldSchool RuneScape Wiki left Fandom in 2018, for similar reasons: https://runescape.wiki/w/Forum:Leaving_Wikia I think the move has been really successful. They've managed to add lots of exciting game-specific features to the wiki, like tracking requirements for a quest, or historical item prices. It also didn't seem to take long for the new wiki results to rank above the Wikia/Fandom results…

The Terraria wiki also left fandom a while back and they were able to implement things like special biome themes that they would never have been able to in fandom.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by adeon »

NetHack did this when Fandom was still called Wikia. Luckily, the new forked site won search engines over easily and nethackwiki.com easily comes on first results if you search for NetHack stuff.

Unlike NetHack, the Minecraft Fandom site is probably a lot more lucrative in ad revenue.

I randomly was checking on Fandom's wikipedia page and noticed: "On October 3, 2022, Fandom acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, TV Guide, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Cord Cutters News, and Comic Vine from Red Ventures."

I had no idea they've been collecting sites like infinity stones. I guess ads pay handsomely? Ugh.

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