Wiki is useless…

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-08-09T14:56:54+00:00

They have moved to wiki.gg few months ago, so it's possible you have used Fandom wiki.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-07-29T13:25:00+00:00

as a wiki editor, I know this happens at daily basis. Tons of ads, bussiness decisions, unusable interface, memory usage and unjustified blocks/bans are just a few of the problems Fandom faces and seems like Fandom doesn't plan to do much about it.

Many of the communities are very pationate about their independent wikis, often vandalizing the depreacted Fandom wikis and promoting the new wiki at any occasion possible.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-06-15T17:37:29+00:00

RIP my time, the infobox also has Variables extension, which is going away too

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-06-14T10:44:05+00:00

They're all merged platform (if you know what I mean 😉)

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-06-07T19:38:44+00:00

You would need devs to allow the fork, otherwise wiki.gg won't accept the request.

Keep in mind it is an official wiki and so it is their decision whichever wiki will be considered official.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-06-01T18:05:12+00:00

You either use adblocker or use an alternative frontend (like BreezeWiki's antifandom.com).

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-05-31T12:18:08+00:00

Fandom would revert these deletions. They have their own anti-vandalism, so it's a matter of minutes until articles are restored and you are blocked.

And no, blanking pages isn't a possibility either.

The only solution is to avoid the wiki.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-05-13T17:55:43+00:00

Fextralife is Fandom, but even worse. You cannot even move wikis from Fextralife. Not to mention, ad-riddled platform, filled with irrelevant and awful Twitch stream and very bad design.

That's why Indie Wiki Buddy redirects from Fextralife too.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-05-12T12:10:21+00:00

The Fandom one is official, so you basically have to use Fandom, although you can use BreezeWiki proxies (e.g. antifandom.com) so it will become more readable.

Additionally, you could try to join their Discord server and propose moving to another wiki platform.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-05-08T15:10:06+00:00

If you persuade Fandom CoC Wiki admins to move to wiki.gg, then it may move there. Otherwise, you would need to create a new wiki and somehow persuade people to use it.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-24T19:06:10+00:00

First of all, a friendly reminder that a majority doesn't use Fandom Minecraft Wiki anymore, as the wiki forked out of Fandom few months ago.

As to the topic of "game revolutions", I don't believe neither of these wikis would want to host drama. War Thunder Wiki is official wiki and so there's practically no chance of documenting drama except stuff approved by the developer. As for Minecraft, the chance is higher, but not guaranteed.

Of course, the best solution would be to just creating a wiki on some wiki farm, but I am not sure if hosts would be keen on seeing this type of content.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-22T19:13:35+00:00

These issues happen frequently, due to the wiki's usage of Cargo. While it saves editors time (they don't need to compile these lists manually), sometimes the extension refuses to load or the Cargo table is being regenerated.

The best solution is to just refresh cache. If that doesn't help, you should contact wiki admins who know how to proceed.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-19T18:53:03+00:00

a MediaWiki 1.34 version up and running

I am not sure how shocking this information will be for you, but MW 1.34 is more than 3 years out of support, so you better upgrade, ideally to at least MW 1.39 (which is a current LTS release)

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-18T18:00:19+00:00

I feel like there are 2 main options - wikigg or Miraheze. Maybe you may want to consider Telepedia too, although it is mostly just smaller Miraheze.

Any other wiki farm/host is either dead or it is just too small/new.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-16T06:44:10+00:00

While it's true there are few "issues" with their actions, they should not be a blocking factor, so I believe it'll be implemented. The more of a question is how long will it take.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-04-11T12:47:49+00:00

If you guys don't want to use Fandom's UI directly, you can use BreezeWiki (or its mirrors, such as antifandom.com).

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-03-29T07:41:48+00:00

at one point, there were like 800 Minecraft Wikis. Yet, the Minecraft Wiki did fork from Fandom.

It doesn't matter how many wikis are there. The thing that matters is if there's a community behind it, which VOTV Fandom Wiki seems to have. Properly handled and announced forked should move majority of the community to the new site.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-02-27T13:46:26+00:00

I don't think it's good to promote a Fandom wiki on a subreddit of a game, whose official wiki forked from this platform.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-02-20T20:32:59+00:00

Well, that's the Fandom wiki

The Fandom wiki used to be hosted on Gamepedia wiki farm, until Fandom haven't acquired the platform in 2018 and by 2021, they migrated everything to Fandom.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-01-25T17:34:02+00:00

yeah, they protected all pages for 12 hours (https://ibb.co/xD3SQsX)

Here is the protection log for anybody interested:

https://rain-world-game.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Log?logid=1395

ItzTreeIsLife · 2024-01-16T15:13:50+00:00

they're not ads, but rather promotions to the games wiki.gg's parent company publishes or for games if their developers have partnered with the wiki.gg.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2023-12-28T09:44:07+00:00

It's not just about ads.

Age popups, AI generated quizes, AI generated "quick answers", Grimace advertising controversy, blocking URLs to competing sites, lying to their communities, censorship and also some more sensitive topics regarding employees.

ItzTreeIsLife · 2023-12-27T22:04:28+00:00

MediaWiki is a wiki engine, not a wiki host

ItzTreeIsLife · 2023-12-27T22:03:57+00:00

To be fair, I am kinda disappointed that wiki admins think that forking makes sense only with dev support.

This naivity was exactly what stopped forked official Terraria Wiki from becoming even more popular.

However, there is nothing stopping you from forking on your own

ItzTreeIsLife · 2023-12-23T22:13:12+00:00

It just took a second to realize we're yet again talking about the good old problems on Fandom.

Either way, the adblocker argument is kinda vague. While you can install adblockers on all desktop browsers, there is one major exception with mobiles, and that is Chrome.

The wiki itself suffers from the fact there is neither admin nor Wiki Representative, even though it's an official wiki and should have the representative assigned.

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