Baldur's Gate 3

That's fantastic news. It's so lame how there hasn't been any serious move to take wikis off Fandom and make them independent or even just on another platform. Fandom is just the worst, and it's terrible that Google suggests it as the top result now over the independent wikis.

Like, Bulbapedia is head and shoulders a better resource than the Fandom Pokemon wiki. It's been around forever, it's very active, it has far more information, yet Google always suggests Fandom first anytime I do a Pokemon related search. It's gross.

If anyone ever gets annoyed at Wikipedia asking for donations, go spend time on Fandom with ad blockers off, and remember that's the end result of public information wikis relying on ads.

Good! Fandom is fucking garbage. So much bullshit on the screen it's hard to find the actual info on the page.

Direct link: https://bg3.wiki/

It's very good already, and as a fan-run site, I'm willing to spend time contributing to it. What a refreshing change it is to get away from Fandom/Wikia and Fextralife. Nice work, Taylan!

Hope BG3.wiki gets more attention. The article says it it is getting updated by fans.

Amazing the article never once mentions the sites url, or offers a direct link. Bg3.wiki say it again, bg3.wiki .

I've found most RPG / CRPG games have really good subreddits. Most of time when I've needed to look up how a spell interaction works or how XYZ operations, the top search will usually lead back to Reddit (which is kinda a shame given how shithouse Reddit is now)

🎵 Down, down, down, by the riverrrrrrrrrr🎵

What a shit article. They link to everything except the ONE SITE that’s the subject.

...Reddit user Taylan, who created and shared a Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki as an alternative to the existing Fextralife site at the beginning of 2022. “In my opinion [the Fextralife wiki] isn’t a particularly nice wiki,” Taylan wrote. “It shoves ads in your face, and claims copyright ownership over anything you write. (Essentially, if you add something to their wiki, you’re doing unpaid work for their company. Not to be a hater, but I dislike that.)”

The irony and lack of self awareness is thick. To be fair, that was in 2022, before Spez shit the bed.

There is wiki.gg

Pretty good wiki, a lot of indies use it. For example: Dead Cells, Deep Rock Galactic, Terraria, ARK, Cuphead, Don't Starve, Brotato, Binding of Issac, Satisfactory etc.

Some AAA games are there too. Like Sea of Thieves, Dying Light.

It would be cool if there was some wiki with ActivityPub.

Fextralife and Fandom can go die in ditches. Fextralife is literally only for pushing views to their shitty Twitch channel so they can pretend they actually have the ~30k viewers, and Fandom is pure cancer to use on mobile.

I implore people to make their own or use alternatives, like WikiDot or Miraheze.

FTA:

"(Essentially, if you add something to their wiki, you’re doing unpaid work for their company. Not to be a hater, but I dislike that.)"

Posts to reddit... LOL.

It's better than Fextra's, too!

I added upcast info to a bunch of spells last month because I was annoyed that the in-game tooltips didn't have the info on my Warlock's Level Up screen. I was already impressed with their templating and I'm always down to support an independent wiki. I've also been using their item lists and class breakdowns.

Here's a pro-tip: if something you're trying to look up is on a Fandom wiki, replace the "fandom.com" domain in the URL with "antifandom.com". This removes all of the ads and autoplaying videos, and generally makes the page cleaner.

Very awesome. Anyone who hasn't played it yet should buy it and play it. It's so good. I'm almost done with playing through it twice and already planning out a third run.