Citing “lack of transparency from Fandom […] loss of features […] and toxic company culture.”
They don’t mention this, but Minecraft isn’t the first to abandon the shitty fandom.com platform. Zelda wiki left Fandom last fall, the Star Trek Online wiki jumped ship in February (sorry for the Reddit link, there’s no article on STO), and the Fallout wiki left too. Evidently there are more game wikis that got fed up with Fandom and set up shop somewhere else, but there’s no press on that, at least that I could find. It’s definitely part of a trend, and people need to aware of that.
Edit: others have commented about the exodus of other game wikis. Yep, definitely a trend that isn’t being reported
Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it’s been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.
Fandom acquired Gamepedia a few years ago.
This was a big thing with the WoWwiki, they were on Fandom with WoWwiki and moved to Gamepedia with WoWpedia to get away from Fandom, and then Gamepedia got bought out so they ended up where they started.
Seems now the only options are Fandom, Fextralife or self-hosted.
First they left Reddit; now they’re leaving Fandom. Do they believe they’re too big to be overshadowed by Google algorithms?
Wikis don’t really need too much SEO though. If there’s one good wiki, chances are it’ll pop up on the first page somewhere when you google “minecraft [game-specific term]”. And from then on you know to use that wiki, and just go directly to their website instead of googling.
Terraria’s wiki has been running independently of Famdom for a while now, so has Paradox’s, Guild Wars 2’s, etc etc.
Why not do what the dwarf fortress wiki did, it looks just like wikipedia.
And it’s free too. Why people try to reinvent the wiki is beyond me.
Fandom also uses Mediawiki, like Wikipedia.
