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And if you look for "fandom" in the wiki's search, it redirects to an entry about a location in the game called "Castelia Sewers". [2]
[1]: https://www.wikidex.net/wiki/WikiDex:WikiDex_ya_no_forma_par...
OSRS set the bar pretty high: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/
Clean, concise, and accurate.
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).
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.
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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…
People figured out from friends how to craft things or looked at the wiki. Then NEI came out (successor is now called JEI) which showed every item and its recipe. Game changer.
But NEI (and of course, NEI in GregTech New Horizons) is the only way to play.
Because what is Minecraft without regular expressions in your inventory?
https://wiki.gtnewhorizons.com/wiki/Not_Enough_Items#Search_...
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.
It was founded by Jimmy Wales but was sold to a PE group. Wales is president of the company though.
Wow that's vendor lock in right there.
Fandom should have features to make the wiki read only, disable new posts, also a feature to pin a permanent banner for announcements, in this case for announcing the new home/link.
That will be a much better migration path.
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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.
OSRS also moved to oldschool.runescape.wiki and AIUI jagex pays for their hosting and provides some kind of content access to make updating/syncing easier. 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).