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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Fandom 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…

https://www.fandom.com/licensing > Except where otherwise permitted, the text on Fandom communities (known as “wikis”) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA). > To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users editing or otherwise contributing to wikis that use the CC BY-SA license agree to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-d…

Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to another host is either a manual process that could take days of downloading, or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime.

And then they won’t delete your wiki if the community asks for it. Fandom is hostile to forks.

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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The 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.

That's what Indie Wiki Buddy is for. https://getindie.wiki/

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.fandom.com/licensing > Except where otherwise permitted, the text on Fandom communities (known as “wikis”) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA). > To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users editing or otherwise contributing to wikis that use the CC BY-SA license agree to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-d…

Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to another host is either a manual process that could take days of downloading, or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime. And then they won’t delete your wiki if the community asks for it. Fandom is hostile to forks.

Isn't that what a DMCA takedown is for?

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.fandom.com/licensing > Except where otherwise permitted, the text on Fandom communities (known as “wikis”) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA). > To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users editing or otherwise contributing to wikis that use the CC BY-SA license agree to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-d…

Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to another host is either a manual process that could take days of downloading, or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime. And then they won’t delete your wiki if the community asks for it. Fandom is hostile to forks.

Using automation to scrape lots of sites is prohibited but the AI crawlers seem to get away with it?
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