• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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      a core issue for moving wikis is that Fandom refuses to delete the old wiki so you 1) have to fight an SEO war against them; and 2) have to contend with directing everyone to the right place or else you have two competing wikis (one of which will gradually lapse out of date). it’s very irritating.

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        The Path of Emilie community made an extension to remove fandom from Google results and automatically link to the real wiki. Hopefully more communities make something similar.

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        wait. they have something in their Terms of Service that prevents you from deleting stuff you posted? That sounds illegal.

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          i’m pretty sure this is because of two things: 1) they actually host the wikis and the administrators of them simply steward them; and 2) everything is licensed under CC-BY-SA anyways, so you don’t retain the right to revoke things you contribute or the right to move the wiki.

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          A gdpr request on content you create but do not own just anonymizes the references to who created and edited the articles you contributed to

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        ugh yeah. especially the SEO war thing, the new website doesn’t even register on DuckDuckGo yet. at least there’s this extension called Indie Wiki Buddy which will hide Fandom results from search engines and redirect you to an independent wiki if you end up on Fandom anyway

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        I don’t see Fandom winning these wars when their site is so bloated with ads. Whenever I end up there I immediately want to leave.

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        what if someone pushes thousands of edits with random AI generated garbage from thousands of accounts?

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          Unfortunately they’re likely well equipped to deal with that kind of situation as it’s not all that different than normal wiki vandalism.

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        The only thing more rage-inducing than getting stuck in a game and needing to Google the information I need… is finding that information on a Fandom Wiki composed of 90% ads and 10% useful content. Especially since I’m usually searching for that information on my phone, due to not all games handling Alt+Tab particularly well, and Fandom is somehow even worse on a phone. I have genuinely had moments where I’ve just closed a game and stopped playing because the information I need isn’t in the game but has to be found on a Fandom Wiki.

        SEO wars only go so far when the user experience on Fandom is so awful that plenty of players would rather scroll down to use the #2 entry in the search results if it means not having to click a Fandom link. They’d only need a few occasions when the #2 entry is a better experience than using Fandom, and they’ll start using the independent Wiki purposefully.

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      I hope the OSRS wiki really influences others, that wiki is top quality, the best out there honestly. Fandom, fextralife and such can all die in a hole.

      I am happy Weird Gloop have decided to host the Minecraft wiki.

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    Oh wow, good for them. Had a quick look and it looks like a really nice import of their old stuff.

    Hopefully Fandom doesn’t crush them with their seo monopoly stuff.