If I see a fandom wiki it’s an automatic won’t visit
Not that it matters even if you did ... on my phone the page is overtaken by ads that open more ads and it's unusable.
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#22Fandom is one of those sites I want to like but just can't. How can the developers of that site be satisfied with their work?
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#23If I see a fandom wiki it’s an automatic won’t visit
I have some fandom wikis that I visit. My adblockers block all the ads and I use Safari's "hide distracting items" feature to block the other annoyances. Makes the site pretty usable but you have to care a lot about the content to bother with it.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#24The 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.
It was added back in 2022, when it was still official. This project is just not very active anymore. https://gitdab.com/cadence/breezewiki/commit/8b200d621ab6fa4...
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Can my browser not be an AI crawler?
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#26Because of my heavy adblocking and other extensions that make nasty sites look perfectly clean and usable, I often forget that other people don't see the same website that I do.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#27Self-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.
Can't work for twitter because they block logged out requests (unless you're logged in)
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#28I'm going to have to look at this. In the meantime I've banned fandom results from my search engine.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#29I work for wiki.gg, if anyone edits a Fandom wiki that's considering forking and wants to know more, send me an email (in bio)
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#30Earlier 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.
> or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime.
I thought the linkedin scraping case set the precedent that anonymous scraping was legal?