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

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Recently there's been a push for video games to migrate to this new gaming focused wiki hosting site named Wiki.gg. A lot of major games have migrated to that site, including Terraria. Now, more and more games have started their migration process. Was Fandom really that bad to warrant a mass exodus of that scale?
 
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Miss Violet Beauregarde said:
Recently there's been a push for video games to migrate to this new gaming focused wiki hosting site named Wiki.gg. A lot of major games have migrated to that site, including Terraria. Now, more and more games have started their migration process. Was Fandom really that bad to warrant a mass exodus of that scale?
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The ads alone should've been enough for the autists to move, with the sensory overload they cause.
 
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If someone wants an easy way to keep up with all the new independent wikis being created, might I suggest the Indie Wiki Buddy extension (here's a link to the Chrome version, which works with Brave and any other Chromium based browser that uses Google's web store). It can either point you toward, or outright redirect you, to over 300 independent wikis if you visit their Fandom or Fextralife counterparts.
 
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I vaguely remember the wookiepedia admins adding pronouns to a few character's pages as like a snarky thing because of some gay twitter fight but I didn't realize they went fullblown poz with it and did it to every single page. Love the talk page about it too where it's brought up as a serious proposal to be debated as if this change isn't going to be rolled through anyway, meanwhile the fag admins are around deleting every single comment against the change lmao

Some kind of wiki cloning tool would be so great, would love an offline copy of the whole thing from before the Disney buyout irreversibly destroyed the franchise and invited people like this in droves.
 
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L Ton Tubbard said:
I vaguely remember the wookiepedia admins adding pronouns to a few character's pages as like a snarky thing because of some gay twitter fight but I didn't realize they went fullblown poz with it and did it to every single page. Love the talk page about it too where it's brought up as a serious proposal to be debated as if this change isn't going to be rolled through anyway, meanwhile the fag admins are around deleting every single comment against the change lmao

Some kind of wiki cloning tool would be so great, would love an offline copy of the whole thing from before the Disney buyout irreversibly destroyed the franchise and invited people like this in droves.
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How do they find sources for the pronouns? Meticiously combing through every single scene and pages for what other characters call them or just pulling it out of their ass?
 
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Miss Violet Beauregarde said:
How do they find sources for the pronouns? Meticiously combing through every single scene and pages for what other characters call them or just pulling it out of their ass?
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They even argue about this among themselves, the only kind of dissent allowed in this case. In their crazy world, Princess Leia wouldn't automatically be a woman referred to as she/her unless you cite specific instances of Leia being referred to that way or identifying that way. So if no one ever referred to Leia as a she/her in any movies or extended universe material, her gender would just be totally up in the air.
 
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L Ton Tubbard said:
They even argue about this among themselves, the only kind of dissent allowed in this case. In their crazy world, Princess Leia wouldn't automatically be a woman referred to as she/her unless you cite specific instances of Leia being referred to that way or identifying that way. So if no one ever referred to Leia as a she/her in any movies or extended universe material, her gender would just be totally up in the air.
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Do they finally find any sources?
Something like "Here's this exact scene in episode 3 where Leia is refered to as a she"
 
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Do they finally find any sources?
Something like "Here's this exact scene in episode 3 where Leia is refered to as a she"
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Every pronoun now has to have a citation for it, in this case they use multiple citations from some official Star Wars website databank thing that's now offline.

So in case there was any doubt, here are nine citations of Leia's gender. Phew!.
 
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L Ton Tubbard said:
They even argue about this among themselves, the only kind of dissent allowed in this case. In their crazy world, Princess Leia wouldn't automatically be a woman referred to as she/her unless you cite specific instances of Leia being referred to that way or identifying that way. So if no one ever referred to Leia as a she/her in any movies or extended universe material, her gender would just be totally up in the air.
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I genuinely assumed that shit was being pushed by the owners in the same manner on how the debate on One Piece got overruled.
 
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Just use an adblocker, it's not like phones are somehow umable to have those.
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TBFH wikia relies on javascript so much even an adblocker can't block everything, most bullshit probably, but def not all of it. Also adblockers on phones are spotty, like some browsers have no addon support and no adblocker, some are like brave in the sense that they've got a built-in adblocker, some are paid adblockers, a few have addon support. It's dogshit.

I'd suggest you this instead https://breezewiki.com/
It's a frontend like invidious.
 
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