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The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki (minecraft.wiki)

submitted 9 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 68 points 9 months 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.de 38 points 9 months 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.ml 29 points 9 months 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.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Hotchurkey@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Terraria wiki is hosted on wiki.gg, which the Minecraft wiki editors strongly considered (reading through the discussion, it seemed like a strong second choice behind Weird Gloop/RuneScape wiki). But wiki.gg really has a lot of the same problems as fandom, just to a lesser degree. Still has a fair amount of ads, still has wiki.gg branding on the website, and most importantly in the discussions I read, they wouldn’t be able to use a domain the Minecraft wiki owns (as in it wold have been at minecraft.wiki.gg rather than minecraft.wiki). The big problem with not having their own domain is that if things ever go south with wiki.gg (for example if they get bought by Fandom), they would be starting from scratch as far as SEO/discoverability goes, same as they are now.

Weird Gloop (the host for the RuneScape wikis) offered fewer ads, a comparable hosting infrastructure, and the ability to use their own domain, as well as a lot of experience forking from fandom successfully, which sounds like it was really valuable to them.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone -1 points 9 months ago

It should be noted that Weird Gloop purchased the minecraft.wiki domain, leading me to assume that they currently claim ownership of it.

I hope the wiki team will be able to keep the domain of things really do go south with Weird Gloop.

[-] Hotchurkey@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That’s surprising given the discussions I read, but you’re right, a quick WHOIS search shows Weird Gloop as the owner. I’m not quite sure why that is.