BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
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BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#2Fandom sucks. Scraping and republishing their content sucks harder. Disgraziato.
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#3Is there any easy way to make a local backup of a Fandom wiki? I have found some unmaintained scripts which might have worked at one point, but it seems like the only option on the table is to scrape and parse everything.
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#4Mostly getting errors about BreezeWiki not being allowed to access Fandom, but the idea is sound and much needed.
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#5Self-hosting breezewiki -- even on the same machine that you browse from -- gets neatly around the way fandom wikis block the breezewiki public nodes. I've got it self-hosted and now I never see that damn fandom interface.
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#6The minecraft wiki has moved off of fandom, fandom just overtakes it in SEO.
Linking to the fandom wiki like you do on this site probably helps fandom more than you're hurting it. Just help wiki maintainers move to better platforms.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#7Fandom sucks. Scraping and republishing their content sucks harder. Disgraziato. Except as expressly permitted by the Company (for example with respect to the use of text content that is submitted to particular Fandom communities as permitted as set forth at our licensing page), you may not modify, publish, transmit, reproduce, scrape, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, adapt, aggregate, sell, transfe…
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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#8Thanks for the shout out to Miraheze, a free wiki host with no ads. We really appreciate it.
We’re about to celebrate our tenth anniversary in a couple months. I hope many Fandom wikis can come join us by then.
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#9Racket is giving an error.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#10Self-hosting breezewiki -- even on the same machine that you browse from -- gets neatly around the way fandom wikis block the breezewiki public nodes. I've got it self-hosted and now I never see that damn fandom interface.
We need a browser or extension that does this stuff automatically in the browser, so it looks like a normal browser request.
By "this stuff" I mean BreezeWiki, Invidious, Nitter, whatever that one for Reddit was called.