WoWWiki (now called Wowpedia) is thinking about leaving Fandom too [1], which is interesting when you consider their past.<p>Back in the day, WoWWiki started as its own thing before it shifted over to Wikia (what we now know as Fandom).<p>Wikia was even worse than Fandom today. They had this set layout that didn’t work for many of the wikis they brought in. This led some folks from the community to branch out and create Wowpedia, which was on its own again.<p>Later, Wowpedia joined Curse's Gamepedia, kind of like Wikia but not as in-your-face.<p>But here’s the twist: in 2018, Fandom/Wikia bought Gamepedia. So, Wowpedia landed back with Fandom. At some point, they decided to archive WoWWiki so there is only Wowpedia now.<p>----<p>My personal opinion in general about this topic is that Fandom is a very bad host (Wikia used to be worse, to be fair), but the worst is having two competing wikis.<p>At least in this Minecraft's case, it looks like the majority of contributors moved together.<p>The situation of WowWiki/Wowpedia at the time was just sad, a lot of hard work went down the drain.<p>And speaking of which, isn’t the Terraria Wiki going through something similar right now?<p>Out of two wikis:<p><a href="https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki</a>
<a href="https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki</a><p>I can't figure out which one’s busier right now. I understand that terraria.wiki.gg now is the "official" one, but if you check out their recent change frequencies, they seem pretty close.<p>I can’t help thinking there's a lot of duplicated effort here too.<p>[1] <a href="https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Vote_to_Leave_Fandom" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Vote_to_Leave_Fandom</a>