Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
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Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
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Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#2The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom.
In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#3The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
That might be true, for a while. After that, pagerank will move on to the new one.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#4Here's a good summary of controversy surrounding Fandom and why fandoms tend to leave: https://www.koopatv.org/2022/10/why-people-dont-like-fandom-...
And it doesn't even really touch on how Fandom, sometimes, refuses to delete the old wiki for traffic purposes, and leaves it up as a "zombie" wiki that smothers the new wiki due to SEO, or the more serious conflicts between some admins and contributors in some other specific fandoms.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#5The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
While you have a point, this move is still in the right direction. This move gives people to power to choose. At least I don't have to use BreezeWiki for minecraft again.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#6The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
While you have a point, this move is still in the right direction. This move gives people to power to choose. At least I don't have to use BreezeWiki for minecraft again.
I use adblock rules and the site looks perfectly fine. Every few months I have to add something new, but all in all, I don't have a problem with viewing wikis hosted by Fandom.
OTOH, I refuse to edit wikis in Fandom, because it feels like I'm not doing it for the community but for the Fandom company, which I don't care for.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#7The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
That might be true, for a while. After that, pagerank will move on to the new one.
The doom wiki moved like 10 years ago and it's still below.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#8The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
Yume 2kki, [doom wiki] and zelda wiki are all at 2nd in the google results. Strangely they don't seem to mention them moving on the front page. I think I heard fandom tries to stop people from moving and takes down messages like that, so that might be why they're still on top.
Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#9Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
#10The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom. In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.
Given how infamously hostile Fandom wikis are to users, most people who have visited any Fandom hosted wiki in the past will understand this. The top position, which I do want to point out does change, doesn’t always mean people will immediately click on it. This automatic behavior of indiscriminately clicking the top result is being disrupted in part due to how many ads google is stuffing on the top now that look like real results, compounded with the fact of how truly awful google search has become. People are beginning to be much more choosy with what site they click through to.
The thing that bothers me is how much weight you are ascribing to organic search given each of the communities’ niche. Being in “the know” here usually comes with the knowledge of where to find the wiki and other resources. If they have to stumble around to find it the first time, maybe they see the old (or replacement) Fandom site and instantly realize what a horrible mistake they made by clicking thru to the trash heap it is.