Wikia / FANDOM - The ugly result of giving aspies control of their own wiki websites

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Grimmjow Trash said:
RIP, the Monster Musune wiki.
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Place your bets on how long she'll keep her word.
Shaka Brah said:
Really? I guess Japanese art spergs are just as spergy as ours.
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Unfortunately, the forum that this happened on requires an account to see the good stuff. (Never really expected them to go woke.)

And coincidentally, there was a spin-off wiki that had nudity in the fanart section; but that died off because they couldn't foot the hosting bills, a few years ago.
 
Shoutout to all the independent wikis out there that either forked away from Wikia as an organisation OR never joined them to begin with.
 
More drama from the Disney Janny

I'm busy going through the links, but outside of two chimpouts, it's just him reprimanding people since he can't actually ban them.

He's an control freak, obviously. Even when it doesn't affect the wiki.

Content mod couldn't be bothered to answer on how to wiki is managed.

Someone actually tries calling him out, and goes nowhere.

Borderline chimpout.

Freaking out over someone's spare accounts.

Overall, he comes across as someone who didn't get his ration of hot pockets, than being "the worst user on Fandom." Outside of this incident,there really isn't nothing that's worth complaining to Fandom staff about.

But the amount of rage Redo of Healer occasionally generates, is funny; unlike investigating an complaint made by a guy with an chip in his shoulder.
 
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Miss Violet Beauregarde said:
Has anyone tried to check out the FANDOM wiki alternatives, like miraheze?
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I've looked at a multitude wikis hosted on alternative service platforms. Funnily enough, most are FANDOM/Wikia refugees that either left to get away from FANDOM's bullshit, or were forced out by FANDOM because of their clamping down on content.

An example of the former are the NIWA wikis. NIWA stands for the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, and its a group of independent wikis focused on, as the name implies, Nintendo products. There are 32 member wikis, many of which weren't members when they started, so they've grow quite a bit. This includes the infamous Bulbapedia, whose main site, Bulbagarden, was the subject of a Metokur video. Ultimately, I use these wikis over the wikia ones, as they are a good source of information. Note, not all members wikis are Nintendo focused (for example, the Dragon Quest wiki is a member). Another example is NIWA's main affiliate, SEIWA, or the Square Enix Independent Wiki Alliance, which is like NIWA for Square Enix (the Dragon Quest Wiki is also a member of this group). These wikis, being independent, are not hosted by Miraheze.

An example of a wiki forced to go independent due to censorship is the Monster Girl Encyclopedia wiki (NSFW). It uses Media Wiki, just like the Nintendo and Square Enix wikis, but unlike those, this one is hosted by Miraheze. MGE Wiki was a FANDOM wiki until a few months ago, and existed there peacefully for years, keeping its status through careful censorship of images. Then suddenly, round about October and November of last year, FANDOM decides the wiki is too risque for them all of a sudden, and gives the wiki a few weeks warning before they close it, later giving them one or two extensions. That began one of the fastest wiki migrations I've ever seen as wiki administrators rushed to transfer everything over to their new Miraheze wiki site before FANDOM closed them down. It seems to me that they were largely successful in saving all of the content pages, though forums, fanworks and such are probably gone.

For an example of an independent Miraheze wiki that isn't a refugee from FANDOM, there's the TvTropes fork, All The Tropes, whose administrator is actually a member of our little site.

If you want an exhaustive list of independent, non-Fandom wikis, try WikiIndex, which list every wiki ever. It also provides a handy list to Forked Wikia wikis, which left Wikia/FANDOM, and a list for those that were forced out due to censorship.
 
I never noticed all of wikia being some sort of spergfest, though maybe it could simply be due to the wikias that I visit...or maybe I'm amogem...I suppose that the wikia fandom thing is more like a broad spectrum of communities, from decent ones to spergfests that don't even look serious. I myself have contributed on various wikia articles here and there over the years, though it wasn't major edits most of the time, merely some added info.

The biggest contribution was on some emulator wiki, specifically on an article about SNES emulators, as I have some personal experience in using a shitty one on Android, Super Retro 16 (the devs even removed reviews, possibly because I pointed out the problems in depth) that also has a paywall system, and has REGRESSED, while forcing you to update. And get this, in some aspects it's worse than some 20+ year old emulators!

I also didn't get into any drama with anyone, or interact much at all. At the most I would comment on some articles. I would mostly just do my contributions "per conto mio" and maybe get a bit annoyed if they get removed.
 
Cavalier Cipolla said:
I never noticed all of wikia being some sort of spergfest, though maybe it could simply be due to the wikias that I visit...or maybe I'm amogem...I suppose that the wikia fandom thing is more like a broad spectrum of communities, from decent ones to spergfests that don't even look serious. I myself have contributed on various wikia articles here and there over the years, though it wasn't major edits most of the time, merely some added info.

The biggest contribution was on some emulator wiki, specifically on an article about SNES emulators, as I have some personal experience in using a shitty one on Android, Super Retro 16 (the devs even removed reviews, possibly because I pointed out the problems in depth) that also has a paywall system, and has REGRESSED, while forcing you to update. And get this, in some aspects it's worse than some 20+ year old emulators!

I also didn't get into any drama with anyone, or interact much at all. At the most I would comment on some articles. I would mostly just do my contributions "per conto mio" and maybe get a bit annoyed if they get removed.
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Most of Wikia is a scam meant for advertising space.
 
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