FANDOM, the corporation formally known as wikia, also known as the reason why almost every fan wiki is more or less unusable without adblock now, just bought a ton of gaming review websites. many of these were already owned by the same company, red ventures, but to see even more of online gaming get bought up by probably the most annoying website i ever have to use is kind of terrifying. all the more reason to support independent wikis: the nintendo independent wiki alliance, the friends at the table wiki, the touhou wiki, yugipedia, and more in the comments are all worth prioritizing over their "FANDOM" counterparts, particularly because FANDOM more or less has a stranglehold in terms of search engine optimization. support independent games journalism, support independent wikis.
It sounds like funny, but it's not.
- they/them preferred. he ok
no minors please
in reply to @cass's post:
HOLY SHIT NO FANDOM MY BELOATHED hate fandom so much there's only like 30% wiki content on the page
as for independent wikis, heres one i know that kicked off from being Fandom wikis into their own thing:
- https://yugipedia.com/ - the real yugioh wiki, forked from the yugioh Fandom wiki by the admins. there's even a browser extension about to change links from the old one to the new one
there's also https://blaseball.wiki/, the wiki for the internet splort which successfully fully escaped FANDOM by way of a co-ordinated full-fandom sabotage effort which is badass
OH yeah cant forget https://khwiki.com/, the kingdom hearts wiki. it didnt escape from any Fandom wiki, far as i know it's always been its own thing. and of course there's the longstanding wiki paragon that is the transformers wiki at https://tfwiki.net/, and the They Might Be Giants wiki at https://tmbw.net/. these are the ones i can think of right now
really cant mention wikis that moved away from FANDOM without mentioning it tbh
ugh so grim! Another great example is the move of the Fallen London wiki from Fandom to their own one relatively recently ish (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fallen_London_Wiki:Leaving_Fandom ) and, for a game that really benefits from looking up bits and pieces, it's such a relief for it to be on a functional site you can open without your phone burning