Minecraft Wiki:Moving from Fandom
minecraft.wiki
After several discussions, we are excited to announce that the Minecraft Wiki has now moved from Fandom to minecraft.wiki – all of the information about the game can now be found at the new location!
  • atocci@kbin.social
    99·
    1 year ago

    A big win for the Minecraft community. The wiki experience had gone seriously downhill after Fandom took over.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
    501·
    1 year ago

    The Minecraft wiki used to be it’s own thing before moving to Fandom didn’t it? Either way, very happy about this

    • emberwit@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it was great back then. I really enjoyed using it until they switched over to Fandom. So glad they got rid of it again.

    • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, they were previously hosted by Curse until Fandom bought out all the Curse wikis and transferred them to their ad-ridden pile of shit

    • AdamantRatPuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They should have gone the terraria way of handling a wiki before. Terraria has a functional wiki because it’s its own thing. I am not even sure the fandom websites is meant to be read given the amount of ads that litterally cover the whole page.

  • Rottcodd@kbin.social
    48·
    1 year ago

    Good.

    It’s reached the point (or had a couple of years ago, which was the last time I went to a wiki hosted there) that it’s virtually impossible to even read an entry, since there are so many ads that the actual text of the article spends more time off the screen than on it.

  • gullible@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    Going to a site with a terrible autoplay pseudo-podcast that refreshes on every new page is basically the MySpace experience. It’s incredibly difficult, by the way, for small projects to have their wikis deleted and wiki site staff are less than helpful. Always nice for a defunct wiki to rise to the top of search results when the project website hosts quite a bit more identically formatted information but without random penis based articles. I love that.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    The response regarding the move from the people I know who manage the Wiki has been positive. Happy to hear that.

  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    It’s embarrassing that huge and ongoing successful games can’t shell out to host official wikis, but instead leave it to the community to either pay out or pocket (not happening) or pick whichever crappy provider they can find willing to host it for ads.

    A good wiki needs to have mosly text, a modest amount of pictures, no self-hosted video, and low computing needs. While an unpleasant expense for a private individual, it doesn’t cost a company much to host.

    • Syndic@feddit.deEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      While I agree that it’s rather sad for developer not hosting their Wiki, I really never had any problem with the old hoster of the Minecraft Wiki. I certainly didn’t perceive it as a “crappy provider”. It did exactly what it needed to and there weren’t any intrusive adds or at least not to my attention. But maybe I’m just really good at ignoring adds myself.

      Edit: Or mabye my add blocker did help, hard to tell since I haven’t seen the internet without it since years now.

      • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah Bulbapedia is fan-run and does exactly what it needs imo.

      • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ya, not all are the level of Fandom. The old one for Minecraft was somewhat tolerable without an ad-blocker. I don’t really feel it is fair to blame the providers either - even Fandom. They are stepping up to offer something nobody else feels like paying for.

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      A good wiki needs to have mosly text, a modest amount of pictures, no self-hosted video, and low computing needs.

      Huh. That sounds kind of like Lemmy, wonder if someone will try to modify the software to support a wiki.

      • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Looking it up, there is WikiWikiWeb implements Federated Wiki, which Wikipedia describes its primary features as:

        adds forking features found in source control systems and other software development tools to wikis. […]The software allows its users to fork wiki pages, maintaining their own copies. Federation supports what Cunningham has described as “a chorus of voices” where users share content but maintain their individual perspectives. This approach contrasts with the tendency of centralized wikis such as Wikipedia to function as consensus engines.

        Gonna look more into Federated Wiki today, because this sounds super interesting to me c:

  • margina1Shit@jlai.luEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    This was a good change. Fandom always felt so amateurish even though it’s supposedly a big host. I like things to be more like wikipedia and not some blog masquerading as a wiki.