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

[scathefire]

Kirby has two full wikis (Fandom and NIWA) but even though they compliment each other well, I think the NIWA one has more attention to detail and thus I prefer it. The case is the same with Animal Crossing, it has two wikis in the same places. If Fandom went under, we wouldn't be losing much.

 

[Smiggadigga]

The wiki I really liked that got banned under unclear circumstances was the Polandball Wiki. I spend a stupid amount of time on that in Middle school. The other ones were the Randomness wiki, which kind of sucked (mods were fags who clutched pearls over jokes) but had some funny pages and all the other wikis that were "vandalism" or "do whatever you want" wikis. The Polandball wiki getting banned really sucked, that wiki was started in 2010 and I was there since 2017 up until it got banned in 2021.
For those interested here is a complete list of all wikis banned without admin consent by FANDOM staff. You'll notice that "Polandballusers wiki" is also banned, I made that wiki back in 2018. Link

 

[NerdShamer]

For those interested here is a complete list of all wikis banned without admin consent by FANDOM staff. You'll notice that "Polandballusers wiki" is also banned, I made that wiki back in 2018. Link

I thought for sure that I saw an "Go Animate Ver. 20" once

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Belated update, but Zeldawiki re-forked and went independent again. Here's the page where they announced the forking.

 

[NerdShamer]

Speaking of Zelda, I've found this giant page where they've over-analyzed the technology of the series. But since you guys want more of:

Only if you like watching kids and manchildren lunge at each other's throats.

Someone threw down the gauntlet over how autistic this is, went three rounds with the locals and an admin, got banned for an month

Some more historical sperging from an different user

Edit warring over the gender of an background character and the jannies are retarded enough to keep it going to the point where most of the page's history is about an single line of text getting reverted

 

[Celebrate Nite]

So apparently there's some kind of exodus going on with Fandom?

 

[BMO_]

So apparently there's some kind of exodus going on with Fandom?
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Fandom pissed everyone who used it for normal wikis. Minecraft Wiki, for example, had anon edits disabled because "the game is for children" (???).

 

[NerdShamer]

Minecraft Wiki, for example, had anon edits disabled because "the game is for children"

In a way, this is probably for the best

 

[Grin Machine]

So apparently there's some kind of exodus going on with Fandom?

Good, Fandom is intrusive with how they try and push you to other Fandom-wikis and on desktop it's generally just a bad experience. Fandom, Reddit, and Discord are largely responsible for the death independent fan sites and their times can't come soon enough. The Hollow Knight and Megaten wikis are already much improved by running on MediaWiki instead.

 

[Niggolash]

Speaking of weirdos trying to project degeneracy onto cartoon characters:



Fortunately, it appears that most Garfield fans are sane (at least outside of tumblr and other places I'm terrified to check) and the majority just aren't having this shit.

 

[NerdShamer]

Speaking of weirdos trying to project degeneracy onto cartoon characters:
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Fortunately, it appears that most Garfield fans are sane (at least outside of tumblr and other places I'm terrified to check) and the majority just aren't having this shit.

It's the eyelashes, man.

 

[Niggolash]

It's the eyelashes, man.

I'm sure most of us thought he was a girl for that reason, not to mention being voiced by a woman in the cartoon. If I had to pick which is the lesser of two evils I would go with (and may Allah forgive me for saying this) femboy because at least that makes more sense. Pooners are generally known for being tomboys, and Nermal centering his entire identity around cuteness is like... the exact opposite of that.

Also, this exchange made me LOL.

Is this bigot implying that transmen aren't True and Honest males?

 

[Shard]

Fandom, Reddit, and Discord are largely responsible for the death independent fan sites and their times can't come soon enough.

We must return to independent wikis, forums, and IRC channels.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

It's really disheartening when every single fandom has two wikis now and one of them is always "the bad one."

 

[Waifu Denier]

It's really disheartening when every single fandom has two wikis now and one of them is always "the bad one."

The greater tragedy is Fandom always having the SEO to be above the better made, less ad-ridden, and more accurate independent wiki in every search result, even in the case where the independent wiki was first like UESP

 

[Blamo2000]

We must return to independent wikis, forums, and IRC channels.

I totally agree with this.

Many of the bad things that happened to the Internet and culture in general can be attributed to the centralization of communities and communication into a few platforms. We used to have a cyberspace full of communities with their own standards and culture, everybody had their own place to be. At the end of the day freedom and self determination was traded for convenience.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I totally agree with this.

Many of the bad things that happened to the Internet and culture in general can be attributed to the centralization of communities and communication into a few platforms. We used to have a cyberspace full of communities with their own standards and culture, everybody had their own place to be. At the end of the day freedom and self determination was traded for convenience.

The worst part is that it happened in a short amount of time

 

[scathefire]

The worst part is that it happened in a short amount of time
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I imagine it's even worse now (almost 10 years later), given that no one gives a shit about Yahoo and Facebook is mostly boomer territory.

 

[Blamo2000]

The worst part is that it happened in a short amount of time
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I wonder if there is an updated version for that infographic. It must be even worse.

 

[Dr George Whitebread]

Speaking of weirdos trying to project degeneracy onto cartoon characters:
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Fortunately, it appears that most Garfield fans are sane (at least outside of tumblr and other places I'm terrified to check) and the majority just aren't having this shit.

Getting laughed at by the Garfield fandom has to be up there with "embarrassing ways to be told you're a weirdo"