In my opinion genuine wikis provide a much nicer user experience, than Fandom wikis.
I always try to avoid the fandom wiki, even if its the sole option.
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Fandom would have those old moving pop up windows if they could/were still a thing.
They basically do with this annoying videos that follow you as you scroll through the page.
Can’t stand those. Auto play, unclosable
Get a content blocker that lets you maintain a whitelist of sites that don’t have their content muted and paused by default. I don’t even let YouTube autoplay.
Idk. UBlock doesn’t seem to get them on mobile.
Try Brave Browser.
But better, try not using Fandom lol. Miraheze is my preferred wiki host now.
Fandom sucks. Here are two tools you will find useful:
- Indie Wiki Buddy - This automatically redirects you away from Fandom and to an external wiki (e.g. Minecraft Wiki, Tardis Wiki, etc.)
- Breezewiki - This is a private and sans-bullshit frontend for Fandom, written in Racket and created by Cadence Ember (they are also the creator of CloudTube, Bibliogram, and the YouTube Annotation Archive, among other contributions). Indie Wiki Buddy can redirect to Breezewiki if an indie equivalent doesn't exist.
I remember the League of Legends wiki moved away from Fandom to another wiki farm called Weird Gloop (run by the Runescape Wiki people) and the publisher of League of Legends sponsored the move. Fandom's rules say that you are not allowed to destroy the old wiki when you move, so the admins changed the font to Comic Sans on the Fandom wiki.
Weird Gloop are great, the RuneScape wikis are the best there is. They also host the official wikis for Minecraft, Balatro, Vampire Survivors, Warframe, Smite 2 and Hytale.
When I played Guild Wars 2 it took me a while to start using the wiki. Once I did though, I noticed they had literally API integration between the wiki and the game. The wiki would track your progress on quests to help you move forward, same with boss rotations and WvW.
It was probably the best part of the game
You can do this in OSRS with a plugin! It shows, quest progess, collected items, achievements made etc
Granted that should all just be a feature of the official game and website, but it's better than nothing.
he official game and website
Rather have them have an api, so many official websites and apps stop being maintained when the game stops making money
This makes me wanna try GW2 again.
I remember when the Minecraft wiki moved, people were griefing the fandom pages by replacing all images with a Minecraft donkey.
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".
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:
- Fandom wikis are "non-genuine" despite them meeting every criterion for one and despite by far the most prolific wiki in history detailing forward and backward how they are wikis.
- "Powered by MediaWiki" is representative of indie wikis and not of Fandom wikis to anyone who knows anything about either.
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.
There is no gatekeeping
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.
just a statement of a preference, as a user.
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.
This is what reading on there feels like with 90% (on mobile, unironically) screen space used up for ads.
Dropping this here as well, really cool tool.
Do not play Minecraft, but I am so glad they broke free last year or so as well.
Fandom did such a horrible job with the Path of Exile wiki that the game fans not only rebuilt it elsewhere but got Grinding Gear Games to host it
Warframe basically did the same thing, fandom is so insufferable
Miraheze is also great if you need it hosted
Man what an unfortunate name. Looks good but hard to remember and pronounce.
Shout out to guild wars for hosting their wikis on their official site. No ads, lightning fast, and still run by community members. I don't know why more companies don't do it.
Because most companies doesn't even have a wikis on, these are manage and run by fans.
when the Minecraft wiki moved off of fandom, their new site was so much faster
Wikia.
Stop validating their illegitimate claim on a word that they have no right to, and thoroughly exploit and degrade with their continued spew.
Wikia.