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The problem is 'Fandom' (a gross brand name I would refuse to say without airquotes) always has better SEO. The Elder Scrolls has an excellent independent wiki, UESP, but normal people click the first Google result and have no way of knowing it isn't the 'right' wiki
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.
https://starcitizen.fandom.com/
And a recent post on reddit about the wiki's funding appears to have gotten their patreon up to $140 compared to $110 server costs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/16bo02n/star_c...
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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…
Never having played Minecraft: does this game not come with a manual? (even if it's in PDF form or the like?)
.. for practicing your element blocking technique in uBlock Origin.
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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.
Kagi makes it easy to essentially delist entire domains. So nice for when you find a content farm or for sites like pinterest. They even provide a list of the most blocked domains: https://kagi.com/stats (Click "Domain Insights")
Trust the search engine to do the signal/noise calculations for you. You are no longer on Google. Kagi is your agent, not your adversary.
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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…
Never having played Minecraft: does this game not come with a manual? (even if it's in PDF form or the like?)
UESP is the gold standard for wikis. https://uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
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?)
Yeah it's against fandom rules. Wikis aren't allowed to link to their replacements
I always hesitate before browsing to a Fandom wiki because the user experience is so full of dark patterns. I guess this is just another facet of that...
UESP is the gold standard for wikis. https://uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
Bethesda enjoyers are blessed with this wonderful wiki. And action RPG fans have fextralife - another solid gold standard for wikis. It's a great time to be a fan. https://fextralife.com/
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…
Eerily reminiscent of w3schools for people getting into web dev.