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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…
UESP is the gold standard for wikis. https://uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
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.
Yeah I really don't "get" fandom. It's an extremely steep price to pay for free hosting and config!
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.
Plus they have RuneLite cooperating with crowdsourcing things like droptables and drop rates. (And of course mods often will outright tell them what certain droprates are or how they function).
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.
Anyone else thinking of making a service that can easily fork and host a fandom like this?
https://wiki.gg is probably the biggest, but there's also https://abxy.org and https://weirdgloop.org/, who is now hosting the minecraft wiki
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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.
Reminder, you can exclude any site from search results on at least Google and DDG, e.g. '-site:fandom.com' will exclude *.fandom.com from results. There's also a 'ublacklist' extension which lets you block sites from search results as well. I think this edits the results to erase matched sites, though - you're not communicating to Google, et al. that you don't want to see that site.
Crazy thing is that Fandom is (now) owned by Jimmy Wales! Can you imagine if this kind of advertisement came to Wikipedia? Would make the fundraising banners look like nothing.