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Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by gs17 »

Svip wrote: post #65

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 Wi…

They really have gotten worse and it's incresibly frustrating that DDG seems to ignore the Infosphere (and WikiSimpsons) entirely in favor of the fandom sites.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by Svip »

gs17 wrote: post #71
Svip wrote: post #65

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 Wi…

They really have gotten worse and it's incresibly frustrating that DDG seems to ignore the Infosphere (and WikiSimpsons) entirely in favor of the fandom sites.

I agree, but I also don't want to waste too much of my life chasing SEO. Fortunately, some people find our site.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by perihelions »

It's currently my 5th result for "minecraft wiki" on Kagi, after I decided to penalize fandom.com's ranking on a whim.

(Also, the 2nd result is an official Mastodon post which mirrors this announcement, so it would be easily discoverable. Not too bad!)

(For Google, it's the 7th result for me, below three different versions of fandom.com).

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by LordShredda »

tedivm wrote: post #66
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.

It's a much much better experience, wiki.gg is a plain old wiki farm that just works

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by politician »

Doesn’t the domain name clearly infringe on Microsoft’s trademark? Even as someone who is knowledgeable, I can see this causing confusion. As useful as this is, I don’t see site lasting for very long at the current domain without an agreement from the trademark owner.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by codetrotter »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #61

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…

I remember in 2009 or 2010, when I first came across Minecraft. It was not hugely popular yet, but it already had quite an active community.

I played quite a few hours of the game, both alone and together with a couple of friends.

One day, after a couple of weeks or something, I learned about a crafting wiki that told you how to craft different items.

At the time, at least for me, it was not clear how you figure out what items you can craft and what items need to be combined in what patterns to craft those new items.

So for me, that crafting wiki became quite essential.

Maybe other people were figuring out how to craft things by trial and error? Or maybe there was something in the game that told them how to craft specific things?

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by yllautcaj »

sebsebmc wrote: post #63

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 wik…

Critically, the developers of PoE also provide hosting for the wiki pro-bono. The service is so beneficial for players I imagine they figured the game would benefit from an ad-free (and therefore more usable) community wiki. Personally I have recently started seeing the correct wiki at the top of searches so I think the SEO battle is winnable with community effort. It helps that Fandom wikis are uniquely unusable without an ad blocker running.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by bisby »

gs17 wrote: post #71
Svip wrote: post #65

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 Wi…

They really have gotten worse and it's incresibly frustrating that DDG seems to ignore the Infosphere (and WikiSimpsons) entirely in favor of the fandom sites.

A few games I play have DDG bangs that take you directly to the fandom sites, even though the games now have their own self hosted wiki. Perfect exactly would be _minecraft_. If you search for "!minecraft dirt" it takes you to the fandom page. Will DDG update the bang to search via the official wiki? probably not! Maybe now is the time to switch to Kagi
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