Minecraft Wiki moves away from Fandom
After several discussions, we are excited to announce that the Minecraft Wiki has now moved from Fandom to minecraft.wiki – all of the information about the game can now be found at the new location!
fandom.com has always been a pile of barely usable garbage. More projects should follow and self host a wiki again.
a core issue for moving wikis is that Fandom refuses to delete the old wiki so you 1) have to fight an SEO war against them; and 2) have to contend with directing everyone to the right place or else you have two competing wikis (one of which will gradually lapse out of date). it's very irritating.
I don't see Fandom winning these wars when their site is so bloated with ads. Whenever I end up there I immediately want to leave.
The only thing more rage-inducing than getting stuck in a game and needing to Google the information I need... is finding that information on a Fandom Wiki composed of 90% ads and 10% useful content. Especially since I'm usually searching for that information on my phone, due to not all games handling Alt+Tab particularly well, and Fandom is somehow even worse on a phone. I have genuinely had moments where I've just closed a game and stopped playing because the information I need isn't in the game but has to be found on a Fandom Wiki.
SEO wars only go so far when the user experience on Fandom is so awful that plenty of players would rather scroll down to use the #2 entry in the search results if it means not having to click a Fandom link. They'd only need a few occasions when the #2 entry is a better experience than using Fandom, and they'll start using the independent Wiki purposefully.
ugh yeah. especially the SEO war thing, the new website doesn't even register on DuckDuckGo yet. at least there's this extension called Indie Wiki Buddy which will hide Fandom results from search engines and redirect you to an independent wiki if you end up on Fandom anyway
Fandom is 95% popups at this point.
Use an adblocker (uBlock Origin)
Even with uBlock Origin installed, I find Fandom to have a very high proportion of ads. For a while I tried blocking them individually through uBlock's element zapper, but that proved a very short term solution. Too often, it worked only on that page and if I went to another entry on the same wiki, it would be loaded down with ads again. I gave up trying. uBlock is really good with ads on most sites, but Fandom has so many that uBlock can't get rid of them all.
Oh wow it's so much better. Really hope more wikis follow suit
I hope the OSRS wiki really influences others, that wiki is top quality, the best out there honestly. Fandom, fextralife and such can all die in a hole.
I am happy Weird Gloop have decided to host the Minecraft wiki.
Yeah when the osrs wiki team moves I was thinking what's the difference but looking back the move was 100% needed. The new wiki is amazing
Oh wow, good for them. Had a quick look and it looks like a really nice import of their old stuff.
Hopefully Fandom doesn't crush them with their seo monopoly stuff.
Saw this useful browser extension linked on that page, redirects you away from fandom and hides those results in search: https://getindie.wiki/
Warframe next plz 🙏
This might be going back a while, I haven't played or looked anything up in along time, but back in the early days was the minecraft wiki not already its own site. At what point did they move to fandom? It's good they're moving, but why did they ever go there in the first place?
They were originally on Gamepedia, which got bought out by Fandom.
I don’t think fandom will do much, remember Uncyclopedia?
No, what happened?
