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fandom.com has always been a pile of barely usable garbage. More projects should follow and self host a wiki again.
a core issue for moving wikis is that Fandom refuses to delete the old wiki so you 1) have to fight an SEO war against them; and 2) have to contend with directing everyone to the right place or else you have two competing wikis (one of which will gradually lapse out of date). it’s very irritating.
The Path of Emilie community made an extension to remove fandom from Google results and automatically link to the real wiki. Hopefully more communities make something similar.
How can one follow on that path of Emilie?
wait. they have something in their Terms of Service that prevents you from deleting stuff you posted? That sounds illegal.
It almost certainly is in the EU.
Not if their ToS makes you surrender your copyright to them.
That is not legally possible in the EU. You can grant irrevocable usage rights, but you cannot give away your copyright.
A gdpr request on content you create but do not own just anonymizes the references to who created and edited the articles you contributed to
i’m pretty sure this is because of two things: 1) they actually host the wikis and the administrators of them simply steward them; and 2) everything is licensed under CC-BY-SA anyways, so you don’t retain the right to revoke things you contribute or the right to move the wiki.
Hmm. Is there something against linking external wikis on every article you create?
they’ll revert that and ban you for “vandalism” (i assume they have automated sensors for checking this), and/or turn your wiki over to new administrators.
Unless you’re careful about it, they ban you.
It “should” be as easy as a global template inclusion kinda like how wikipedia does donations, but i wouldn’t be surprised if fandom doesn’t allow that to happen
Wikipedia uses CentralNotice which fandom doesn’t allow individual wikis to configure. But there’s https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Site_notice
I don’t see Fandom winning these wars when their site is so bloated with ads. Whenever I end up there I immediately want to leave.
ugh yeah. especially the SEO war thing, the new website doesn’t even register on DuckDuckGo yet. at least there’s this extension called Indie Wiki Buddy which will hide Fandom results from search engines and redirect you to an independent wiki if you end up on Fandom anyway
What if there are no alternative wikis?
it redirects you to BreezeWiki, a no-bloat frontend for Fandom (example)
Hm, I guess it’s an alternative. I’ll give it a try. The Fandom & Fextralife wikis constantly being at the top search results often pisses me off.
Oh wow it’s so much better. Really hope more wikis follow suit
I hope the OSRS wiki really influences others, that wiki is top quality, the best out there honestly. Fandom, fextralife and such can all die in a hole.
Oh wow, good for them. Had a quick look and it looks like a really nice import of their old stuff.
Hopefully Fandom doesn’t crush them with their seo monopoly stuff.
Fandom is 95% popups at this point.
Ublock?
It looks pretty bad even with an adblocker on now too
I don’t think fandom will do much, remember Uncyclopedia?
I don’t think fandom will do much, remember Uncyclopedia?
Saw this useful browser extension linked on that page, redirects you away from fandom and hides those results in search: https://getindie.wiki/