In my opinion genuine wikis provide a much nicer user experience, than Fandom wikis.
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Uhhh... OP, Fandom uses MediaWiki. Fandom is terrible for other reasons, and not using MediaWiki anyway wouldn't make you a "non-genuine wiki".
There's a good browser extension called Indie Wiki Buddy that helps redirect you from Fandom to independent fan wikis, which in my experience are almost always better.
I think OP is trying to say that you should host your own wiki using MediaWiki instead of using Fandom. Your comment is like if someone said "You should use a Linux phone to get away from Google and Apple" and you responded with "Android uses Linux".
I promise as someone extensively familiar with MediaWiki who even administrates an indie wiki that this comparison makes absolutely no sense, and I think you're reaching to make the OP's meme make any actual sense when it clearly doesn't. If we're reaching into Linux, this is more (still somewhat tenuously) akin to someone telling Ubuntu users that they're not using "real Linux". They lack the language to express Ubuntu's actual problems which really exist and so resort to vacuous gatekeeping instead.
Edit: Actually, the analogy doesn't even get base enough to describe that. It's like a meme where Geordi rejects the Ubuntu logo and accepts the Tux logo, and then under that is the OP trying to argue that Ubuntu isn't a "genuine" operating system.
I promise as someone extensively familiar with MediaWiki who even administrates an indie wiki that this comparison makes absolutely perfect sense, hence why I posted it. And I think you're reaching to make the OP's meme seem to not make sense when it clearly does under the correct interpretation.
Okay, so draw on your expertise(TM) to explain for the class how:
You can't, because both are bullshit, but if you want to act like a clown, here are your unicycle and juggling pins.
Neither of those are what I interpret the meme to be. I'm not going to argue with you over this because honestly, I don't think it's worth my time.
The point of this meme is me/us as the mere users of a website. Not from a hosting or administration perspective.
There is no gatekeeping, just a statement of a preference, as a user.
Definitionally there is, because you called Fandom wikis "non-genuine wikis". "genuine wikis provide a much nicer user experience than Fandom wikis". That's quintessential gatekeeping, and it's incorrect gatekeeping at that, because they provably are.
We both agree here. You are correct to want to use platforms other than Fandom. Fandom sucks for editors, sucks for readers, and sucks for fan communities; I could write an essay explaining why. I understand the sentiment behind the meme completely; it's the way it arrives at the sentiment that's totally nonsensical. You've made no coherent point and spread misinformation. Which you don't have to to express your opinion, but it's clear you tried to.
I am very well aware, that Fandom is based on MediaWiki. That, however, does not weaken my point at all. tsg
"Touch some grass", if anyone else is unfamiliar with the tla. Rather rude, since that is not even slightly clear in the original meme and I appreciated the extra information...
The additional info is not the issue, that I have with this comment, and is instead greatly appreciated. But the way it is communicated is also somewhat rude.
You are here arguing with people defending a meme you found. Look in the mirror when you tell others to touch grass; god damn, twin.
You are amazing and I hope you never stop being yourself, because it genuinely brings us all here joy to see memes you create. Apologies for sounding rude to you prior
It invalidates your point. You're trying to gatekeep what does and does not constitute a "wiki" while clearly having no idea what that word means. And if you knew Fandom uses MediaWiki, it clearly doesn't show in your meme, because a) Fandom is powered by MediaWiki so it's not mutually exclusive like Geordi implies, and b) like Fandom, most indie wikis in my experience don't use the "Powered by MediaWiki" icon either (just in case you'd go with that bizarre, last-ditch non sequitur of an argument). Your meme is nonsense if Fandom uses MediaWiki, which it does.
As for "genuine wiki", Fandom clearly meets all the points for being one – let alone that it literally uses the de facto wiki software. I'll let Wikipedia speak for this as an expert witness:
It doesn't seem like you're "well aware" of anything you're talking about except the general (correct) sentiment that Fandom sucks. Fandom sucks for so many reasons that it's legitimately impressive you managed to miss all of them while making this meme. I was being earnestly polite when you told me to touch grass, so since apparently even that is apparently escalatory, I'll just... not.
Buddy, this is a simple joke.
Nothing more.