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Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by chx »

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.

Path Of Exile Wiki has also moved about two years ago and GGG is providing hosting for a year now.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3292958

https://www.poewiki.net/

The old fandom wiki is quite dead but it's impossible to get rid of it, alas.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by undersuit »

codetrotter wrote: post #77
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…

I think Wikis are hugely important for games. This opinion came from playing Guild Wars 1 and 2. Arenanet supported the game wikis, no ads. The wiki is even integrated into the game you can pass /wiki an in-game item or even a search query and a browser window to the official wiki will open up.

Sometimes I forget how to build a gate versus a fence in MC, the trial and error takes just about the same time as search the MC wiki, I still search the wiki more often than flail.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by rbits »

bisby wrote: post #80
gs17 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I've submiited a request to DDG, hopefully they update it

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by ectospheno »

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…

Ublock filter can remove fandom results:

  google.*###rso .MjjYud a[href*="fandom.com"]:upward(.MjjYud)

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by cuongfu »

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.

Somewhat relevant, but I know Baldur's Gate 3 is a huge game currently and seems they've done the same. bg3.wiki is infinitely more usable than the fandom one.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by rbits »

teekert wrote: post #78

I always wondered why the wiki was so complete yet so shitty at the same time. I though MS was extracting value via ads. I was wrong. In MCs case a wiki is such integral part of the game it should almost be integrated.

In fact, Mojang actually somewhat recently removed the "official" status from the wiki. Although that was probably because of the Fandom stuff.

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

jerf wrote: post #74

Is there some reason they can't just edit the Fandom wiki and modify each page to point at the new one? (Maybe Fandom would revert the changes?)

> Maybe Fandom would revert the changes?

That is precisely what they do.

They also, in some cases, ban the mods/contributors making the change.

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