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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.
Back in the day, WoWWiki started as its own thing before it shifted over to Wikia (what we now know as Fandom).
Wikia was even worse than Fandom today. They had this set layout that didn’t work for many of the wikis they brought in. This led some folks from the community to branch out and create Wowpedia, which was on its own again.
Later, Wowpedia joined Curse's Gamepedia, kind of like Wikia but not as in-your-face.
But here’s the twist: in 2018, Fandom/Wikia bought Gamepedia. So, Wowpedia landed back with Fandom. At some point, they decided to archive WoWWiki so there is only Wowpedia now.
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My personal opinion in general about this topic is that Fandom is a very bad host (Wikia used to be worse, to be fair), but the worst is having two competing wikis.
At least in this Minecraft's case, it looks like the majority of contributors moved together.
The situation of WowWiki/Wowpedia at the time was just sad, a lot of hard work went down the drain.
And speaking of which, isn’t the Terraria Wiki going through something similar right now?
Out of two wikis:
https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki
I can't figure out which one’s busier right now. I understand that terraria.wiki.gg now is the "official" one, but if you check out their recent change frequencies, they seem pretty close.
I can’t help thinking there's a lot of duplicated effort here too.
[1] https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Vote_to_Leave_Fandom
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…
Do you maintain the Infosphere? Because I love that site. Such a gem.
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.
WoWWiki (now called Wowpedia) is thinking about leaving Fandom too [1], which is interesting when you consider their past. Back in the day, WoWWiki started as its own thing before it shifted over to Wikia (what we now know as Fandom). Wikia was even worse than Fandom today. They had this set layout that didn’t work for many of the wikis they brought in. This led some folks from the community to branch out and create…
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.
WoWWiki (now called Wowpedia) is thinking about leaving Fandom too [1], which is interesting when you consider their past. Back in the day, WoWWiki started as its own thing before it shifted over to Wikia (what we now know as Fandom). Wikia was even worse than Fandom today. They had this set layout that didn’t work for many of the wikis they brought in. This led some folks from the community to branch out and create…
Out of curiousity: In what ways was Wikia worse than Fandom?
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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.
ublacklist only works on google, and the OP was using DDG though.
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 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.