Nowadays, if you want to look for detailed information about a series or a video game, especially one as complex as Minecraft, you will go to one of their Wikis on Fandom to get all the information you need. They are made by fans who constantly update and Fandom takes advantage of the fact that users need a place to host information shared in a community way. Since Fandom bought Wikia years ago, many users claim that things have only been getting worse.
And apparently, a limit would have already been reached that many users were not willing to reach. Therefore, the editors of the Minecraft wiki on Fandom they consider taking all their efforts elsewhere.
Fandom has angered those who document all the Minecraft news for their wikia
Changes in the design of the site and the increase in ads and pop-ups have overwhelmed the editors of one of the biggest wikis of all: Minecraft. For those who don't understand the depth of this, think that there they have listed all the effects of all the blocks and materials in the game, along with enemies and their conditions, and everything you can imagine, as if they had dissected it. Everything there, available for consultation. And we are talking about Minecraft, one of the most extensive and complex games that there is, as well as being popular.
Currently voting on a large-scale migration of the Minecraft wiki out of Fandom. The SonicWave editor has created the series of reasons that prompt him to make this decision:
- Degraded offline reader experience, due in part to large number of ads
- Fandom's annoying yellow navigation bar. It was justified as reinforcing the Fandom brand, but it seems out of place on the wiki, cannot be customized, and was added without discussion or comment.
- Pop-ups, including one that asks readers to confirm their age in order to personalize the ads displayed.
- Insertion of elements such as quizzes created by Fandom at the top of the pages.
- forced insertion of links to other wikis, some of which cover questionable topics; and unrelated Fandom articles in places like the Fan Feed and search results.
Alternatives such as Bulbapedia, known for being a very complete wiki of Pokémon; ABXY, wiki.gg which is being considered as the best option. Regarding the change of hosting, they know they will have a difficult time since Fandom's forking policy requires that the current wiki remain intact and that links to the new wiki not be displayed for more than the first two weeks. The Fandom wiki will no longer have its current editors and will continue to stand without any indication that it has moved, competing with the new wiki and expect the old to outperform the new in Google search results due to high Fandom SEO.
42 Minecraft wiki contributors and editors have voted to leave Fandom, a number that has surprised the organizer, who had expected more negativity. It seems that publishers really want a platform that forces less forced content on them.
Source: PC Gamer
